Vakhonin assuming a stork pose while winning the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
Personal information
Born
10 March 1935 Gavrilovka, Kemerovo Oblast, Russian SSR, Soviet Union
Died
1 September 1993 (aged 58) Shakhty, Russia
Height
1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight
58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport
weightlifting
Club
Trud Shakhty
Medal record
Representing the Soviet Union
Olympic Games
1964 Tokyo
Bantamweight
World Weightlifting Championships
1963 Stockholm
56 kg
1964 Tokyo
56 kg
1966 East Berlin
56 kg
European Weightlifting Championships
1963 Estocolmo
56 kg
1965 Sofia
56 kg
1966 Berlin
56 kg
1968 Leningrad
56 kg
USSR Weightlifting Championships
1961 Dnepropetrovsk
56 kg
1962 Tbilisi
56 kg
1963 Moscow
56 kg
1964 Kiev
56 kg
1965 Yerevan
56 kg
1966 Novosibirsk
56 kg
1967 Moscow
56 kg
1968 Lugansk
56 kg
1969 Rostov
56 kg
1970 Vilnius
56 kg
Aleksey Ivanovich Vakhonin (Russian: Алексей Иванович Вахонин, 10 March 1935 – 1 September 1993) was a former Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union. He won a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[1][2]
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Aleksey Ivanovich Vakhonin (Russian: Алексей Иванович Вахонин, 10 March 1935 – 1 September 1993) was a former Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion...
1964. As a coach he prepared a series of Olympic champions including AlekseyVakhonin, Vasily Alekseyev, David Rigert, Nikolay Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Voronin...
Event Gold Silver Bronze Bantamweight 56 kg AlekseyVakhonin Soviet Union 362.5 kg Imre Földi Hungary 360.0 kg Mohammad Nassiri Iran 350.0 kg Featherweight...
States Yoshinobu Miyake Japan Esmaeil Elmkhah Iran 1964 Tokyo details AlekseyVakhonin Soviet Union Imre Földi Hungary Shiro Ichinoseki Japan 1968 Mexico...
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