Sport Weightlifting Died April 25, 2003 Club Trud Nizhny Novgorod Height 1.62 m | Name Viktor Bushuev Weight 67 kg Role Olympic athlete | |
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Born 18 May 1933 Balakhna, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Olympic medals Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics - Men's Lightweight 60-67.5 kg | ||
Viktor bushuev wins 1958 world weightlifting championships lightweights
Viktor Georgievich Bushuev (Russian: Виктор Георгиевич Бушуев, 18 May 1933 – 25 April 2003) was a Russian weightlifter. During his career, he won three world titles (1957–1959) and an Olympic gold medal (1960), and set three official and two unofficial world records, all in the total.
Bushuev was selected to the national team in 1955 and dominated his 67.5 kg weight category until 1960. He retired in 1964 after failing the national trials for the Olympic team and became a weightlifting coach in his native Nizhny Novgorod.
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