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| Birth name | Anatoly Grigor'evich Pisarenko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 January 1958 Kyiv, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 120 kg (265 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | +110 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anatoly Grigor'evich Pisarenko (Ukrainian: Анатолій Григорович Писаренко, Russian: Анатолий Григорьевич Писаренко; born January 10, 1958) is a former Olympic weightlifter for the USSR. He was born in Kyiv, where he trained at Dynamo.
Pisarenko held multiple world records in the snatch and clean and jerk, and was named weightlifting's "most iconic athlete" by Weightlifting House in 2023.[1] After Pisarenko was caught with Aleksandr Kurlovich in possession of steroids by the Canadian customs in 1985, he was given a lifetime ban by the Soviet Weightlifting Federation.[2]
- ^ PISARENKO | Weightlifting's Most Iconic Athlete, retrieved 2023-03-28
- ^ Wilson, Wayne; Derse, Edward, eds. (2001). Doping in Elite Sport: The Politics of Drugs in the Olympic Movement. Human Kinetics. p. 83. ISBN 0-7360-0329-0.