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Born January 7, 1942 • Soviet Union
Died November 25, 2011 (aged 69) • Germany
Awards And Honors Olympic Games • Order of Lenin (1972)

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Ludmilla Tourischeva
Ludmilla Tourischeva
Soviet gymnast
Nikolai Andrianov
Nikolai Andrianov
Soviet gymnast
Soviet wrestler Aleksandr Medved
Aleksandr Medved
Russian wrestler
Weightlifting winners' podium at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games
Arkady Vorobyev
Soviet weightlifter
Olympic diver Klaus Dibiasi
Klaus Dibiasi
Italian athlete
Shirley Babashoff, 1976.
Shirley Babashoff
American athlete
Saneyev, Viktor
Viktor Saneyev
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Tatyana Kazankina clinching the gold medal in the 1,500-metre race at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
Tatyana Kazankina
Soviet athlete
Lev Ivanovich Yashin
Soviet athlete
Champion boxer Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard
American boxer and television commentator
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Teófilo Stevenson
Cuban boxer
Champion boxer Michael Spinks
Michael Spinks
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Ruth Fuchs
Ruth Fuchs
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Hans Günter Winkler
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Katō Sawao
Katō Sawao
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András Balczó
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Olympic diving champion Phil Boggs
Phil Boggs
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