Fyodor Bogdanovsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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weightlifter
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Place of Birth: Udomelsky District, Tver Oblast, Russia
About Fyodor Bogdanovsky
- Fyodor Fyodorovich Bogdanovsky (Russian: ????? ????????? ???????????? 16 April 1930 – 2 October 2014) was a Russian weightlifter.
- Between 1954 and 1959 he won an Olympic gold medal, four European titles, and five silver medals at world championships, losing to either Pete George or Tommy Kono.
- He set eight ratified world records, five in the press and three in the total.Bogdanovsky took up weightlifting in 1948 and retired in 1963.
- Later he trained weightlifters in Saint Petersburg, and in the 1970s worked with the Soviet weightlifting team.
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