Birth Date: | 20 September 1948 df=yes |
Birth Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
Sport: | Weightlifting |
Club: | Dynamo Moscow |
Coach: | Vladimir Pushkarev |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Yury Yevgenyevich Kozin (Russian: Юрий Евгеньевич Козин; born 20 September 1948) is a retired Soviet heavyweight weightlifter who won a Soviet and a world title in 1971 and set six ratified world records in 1970–72: five in the press and one in the clean and jerk.[1] [2]
Kozin graduated from the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism,[1] and after retiring from competitions worked as a weightlifting coach. He prepared Valery Yurov to the 1990 World Championships.[3]