Viktor Mazin Explained

Birth Date:18 June 1954
Birth Place:Chernovskiye Kopi, Chita Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Death Place:Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Height:156 cm
Weight:60 kg
Sport:Weightlifting
Club:Yenbek Shakhtinsk
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Viktor Ivanovich Mazin (Russian: Виктор Иванович Мазин; 18 June 1954 – 8 January 2022) was a Russian featherweight weightlifter who competed for the Soviet Union. He won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, setting five ratified world records in the process. Domestically, Mazin won one Soviet title in 1980, and placed second in 1979 and 1981. He retired in 1982 after winning a Soviet Cup. He died in Minusinsk on 8 January 2022, at the age of 67.[1]

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  1. https://rfwf.ru/news/8-yanvarya-ushel-iz-zhizni-sovetskiy-tyazheloatlet-olimpiyskiy-chempion-zasluzhennyy-master-sporta-s/ 8 января ушел из жизни советский тяжелоатлет, олимпийский чемпион, заслуженный мастер спорта СССР Виктор Иванович Мазин