Yury Vlasov

Yury Vlasov. Self: Rome 1960: Games of the XVII Olympiad. Yuriy Vlasov is a Soviet and Russian heavyweight weightlifter, politician and writer. Between 1959 and 1963 he won all the competitions he participated in, with a major success at the Rome 1960 Summer Olympics where he set three world records and became the first man to clean and jerk more than 200 kg (202.5). He was proclaimed the best sportsman of...