Vladimir Nevzorov

Vladimir Mikhaylovich Nevzorov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Невзоров, born October 5, 1952 in Maykop) is a Russian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

In 1975, Nevzorov won the gold medal at the World Judo Championships in Vienna in the half middleweight. The next year, he also won the Olympic gold medal in the same weight class.

Im 1980 he became the coach of the Soviet national team. From 1989 to 1991 he worked in France for two years. In 1999 Nevzorov became head-coach of the Russian national judo team; a position he held until 2001. As such, he was the head coach of the Russian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics.