Valerios Leonidis
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Nationality | Greek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Yessentuki, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | February 14, 1966|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Valerios Leonidis (Greek: Βαλέριος Λεωνίδης; born February 14, 1966) is a Greek former weightlifter and current weightlifting trainer. He has won one Olympic silver medal, two silver and one bronze World Championship medals.[1] He has competed in different weight classes from 60 kg to 69 kg. His rivalry with world-record holder Naim Süleymanoğlu in the men's 64 kg was a very popular part of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, in which he won the silver medal.
Leonidis was born in Yessentuki, Russia, to Pontic Greek and Georgian parents. He was a member of the national weighlifting team of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1990 and he moved to Greece in 1991.
References
- ^ "Valerios Leonidis, Top Olympic Lifters of the 20th Century @ Lift Up". chidlovski.net. 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
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- Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
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