David Rigert
Rigert at an awards ceremony in 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | David Adamovich Rigert | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 March 1947 Nagornoye, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Trud Shakhty Avangard Dnepropetrovsk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Rudolf Plyukfelder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Adamovich Rigert (Russian: Давид Адамович Ригерт; born 12 March 1947) is 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.
In 1999, he was inducted to the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.