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Also Known As Arkady Nikitich Vorobyev • Arkady Nikitich Vorobev • Arkady Vorobev
Born October 3, 1924
Died December 22, 2012 (aged 88) • Moscow • Russia
Awards And Honors Olympic Games

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Weightlifting winners' podium at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games
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Charles Vinci
Charles Vinci
American weightlifter
Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev
Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev
Soviet weightlifter
Vladimir Salnikov delivering a gold-medal-winning performance in the 1,500-metre swimming event at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
Vladimir Salnikov
Russian athlete
Vyacheslav Ivanov
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Halil Mutlu
Turkish weight lifter
Naim Süleymanoğlu
Naim Süleymanoğlu
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Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky
Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky
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Miyake Yoshinobu at the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games
Miyake Yoshinobu
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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
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Michael Johnson
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Ian Thorpe
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Rafer Johnson
Rafer Johnson
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Peter Snell
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Murray Rose
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Sergey Bubka
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Abebe Bikila
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Irina Press
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