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
1964 Tokyo Bantamweight
World Weightlifting Championships
1963 Stockholm 56 kg
1964 Tokyo 56 kg
1966 East Berlin 56 kg
European Weightlifting Championships
1963 Estocolmo 56 kg
1965 Sofia 56 kg
1966 Berlin 56 kg
1968 Leningrad 56 kg
USSR Weightlifting Championships
1961 Dnepropetrovsk 56 kg
1962 Tbilisi 56 kg
1963 Moscow 56 kg
1964 Kiev 56 kg
1965 Yerevan 56 kg
1966 Novosibirsk 56 kg
1967 Moscow 56 kg
1968 Lugansk 56 kg
1969 Rostov 56 kg
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.

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