David Rigert

✶March 12, 1947

†October 26, 2026

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David Adamovich Rigert was a Russian retired weightlifter and weightlifting coach of Austrian ancestry. During his career, he competed for the Soviet Union and set 65 ratified world records, and won an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and six world titles.

Soviet weightlifter

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