Yurik Vardanyan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Soviet weightlifter
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Place of Birth: Gyumri, Shirak Region, Armenia
About Yurik Vardanyan
- Yuri Norayrovich Vardanyan (Russian: ???? ?????????? ????????; Armenian: ????? ?????????, also transliterated Yurik Vardanian, 13 June 1956 – 1 November 2018) was a Soviet weightlifter.
- Vardanyan won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics, becoming the world's first weightlifter to achieve a 400 kilogram total in the 82.5 kg weight category.
- During his career he set several world records.
- He trained at Lokomotiv in Leninakan, Armenia.
- He earned the title Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1977 and was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1985.
- In 1994 he was elected a member of the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.In 2009 Vardanyan became an advisor to President Serzh Sargsyan's and was appointed Minister of Sports in May 2013.
- In June, he was controversially appointed Armenia's ambassador to Georgia.
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