Aleksey Vakhonin

Aleksey Vakhonin
Vakhonin assuming a stork pose while winning the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
Personal information
Born10 March 1935
Gavrilovka, Kemerovo Oblast, Russian SSR, Soviet Union
Died1 September 1993 (aged 58)
Shakhty, Russia
Height1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sportweightlifting
ClubTrud Shakhty
Medal record
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1964 Tokyo Bantamweight
World Weightlifting Championships
Gold medal – first place 1963 Stockholm 56 kg
Gold medal – first place 1964 Tokyo 56 kg
Gold medal – first place 1966 East Berlin 56 kg
European Weightlifting Championships
Gold medal – first place 1963 Estocolmo 56 kg
Gold medal – first place 1965 Sofia 56 kg
Gold medal – first place 1966 Berlin 56 kg
Bronze medal – third place 1968 Leningrad 56 kg
USSR Weightlifting Championships
Gold medal – first place 1961 Dnepropetrovsk 56 kg
Gold medal – first place 1962 Tbilisi 56 kg
Gold medal – first place 1963 Moscow 56 kg
Gold medal – first place 1964 Kiev 56 kg
Silver medal – second place 1965 Yerevan 56 kg
Gold medal – first place 1966 Novosibirsk 56 kg
Gold medal – first place 1967 Moscow 56 kg
Silver medal – second place 1968 Lugansk 56 kg
Silver medal – second place 1969 Rostov 56 kg
Silver medal – second place 1970 Vilnius 56 kg

Aleksey Ivanovich Vakhonin (Russian: Алексей Иванович Вахонин, 10 March 1935 – 1 September 1993) was a former Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union. He won a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[1][2]

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  2. ^ "1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Weightlifting" Archived 2007-02-22 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 24, 2008)