Alexander Nikiforovich Voronin

Alexander Voronin
Personal information
Surname:	Alexander Nikiforovich Voronin
Nationality:	Soviet Union
Society:	Trud Kemerovo
Date of birth:	May 23, 1951
Place of birth:	Chelyabinsk , Soviet Union
Date of death:	September 26, 1992
Place of death:	Myski , Kemerovo Oblast , Russia
Size:	144 cm
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 4 × 1 × EM medals 7 × 2 × 0 × soviet medals 2 × 1 × 0 ×

Alexander Nikiforowitsch Voronin ( Russian Александр Никифорович Воронин ; born  May 23, 1951 in Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ; † September 26, 1992 in Mysky , Kemerovo Oblast , Russia ) is a former Soviet- Russian weightlifter . He became Olympic flyweight champion in 1976 .

Athletic career

At the age of 10, Alexander Voronin and his family moved to Mysky in Kemerovo Oblast . At the age of 19, Voronin began to train as a weightlifter.

At the XXI. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , Voronin won a gold medal ahead of the Hungarian György Kőszegi and the Iranian Mohammad Nassiri . Voronin repeated his own world record set on December 4, 1975 of 242.5 kg (105.0 kg / 137.5 kg).

At the 1977 World Championships in Stuttgart , Voronin became world champion, setting a new world record with 247.5 kg (107.5 kg / 140 kg).

From 1976 to 1980 Voronin was four times European champion.

World records

Voronin set a total of 13 world records between 1975 and 1982.

date	discipline	WR	result	Weight class	place
March 16, 1975	Tear		107 kg	up to 52 kg	Zaporozhye
December 04, 1975	Tear		107.5 kg	up to 52 kg	Meissen
December 04, 1975	Duel		242.5 kg	up to 52 kg	Meissen
03/04/1976	Tear		108.5 kg	up to 52 kg	East Berlin
03/04/1976	Bump		140.5 kg	up to 52 kg	East Berlin
07/18/1976	Bump		141 kg	up to 52 kg	Montreal
03/18/1977	Tear		109 kg	up to 52 kg	Vilnius
03/18/1977	Duel		245 kg	up to 52 kg	Vilnius
09/17/1977	Duel		247.5 kg	up to 52 kg	Stuttgart
03/21/1979	Tear		110 kg	up to 52 kg	Leningrad
05/19/1979	Tear		110.5 kg	up to 52 kg	Varna
05/19/1979	Bump		142 kg	up to 52 kg	Varna
04/25/1980	Tear		112.5 kg	up to 52 kg	Belgrade

Awards

• Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1976)
• Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union

Web links

• Alexander Voronin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile of Alexander Voronin in the lift-up project at chidlovski.net (English)
• Alexander Voronin on iat.uni-leipzig.de
• Alexander Woronin on sport-komplett.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "1976 Summer Olympics - Montreal, Canada - Weightlifting" ( Memento from September 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) ( English )
2. ↑ Article from September 24, 2013 on sportufo.ru (Russian)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography of Voronin on infosport.ru (Russian)