Vasilijs Stepanovs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Vasilijs Stepanovs
- Vasilijs Stepanovs (3 March, 28 May or 12 December 1927 – 8 April 2011) was a Soviet weightlifter.
- He was born in Russia as Vasily Matveyevich Stepanov (Russian: ??????? ????????? ????????), but later settled in Latvia, after serving with the Soviet Baltic Fleet there.Stepanovs took up weightlifting in 1948, and in 1953 won the Soviet middleweight title.
- He then moved to the light-heavyweight class and won the 1955 European and 1956 Soviet titles.
- He finished second at the 1955 World Championships and 1956 Olympics, both times behind Tommy Kono.
- After the Olympics he progressed to the middle-heavyweight division and set four ratified world records in the press between 1958 and 1962.
- In retirement he trained weightlifters in Riga, Latvia.
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