 Kozin in 2017 | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 20 September 1948 Moscow, Soviet Union | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo Moscow | |||||||||||
| Coached by | Vladimir Pushkarev | |||||||||||
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Yury Yevgenyevich Kozin (Russian: Юрий Евгеньевич Козин; born 20 September 1948) is a retired Soviet heavyweight weightlifter who won a Soviet and a world title in 1971 and set six ratified world records in 1970–72: five in the press and one in the clean and jerk.[1][2]
Kozin graduated from the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism,[1] and after retiring from competitions worked as a weightlifting coach. He prepared Valery Yurov to the 1990 World Championships.[3]
- ^ a b Динамо. Энциклопедия. ОЛМА Медиа Групп. 2003. p. 278. ISBN 978-5-224-04399-6.
- ^ Yury Kozin. chidlovski.net.
- ^ Юрий Козин: Первую штангу точили в подвале. Moskovskij Komsomolets. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2019.