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Soviet weightlifter (born 1955)

Valery Kravchuk

Personal information

Born

1955 (age 68–69)
Zhovti Vody, Ukraine

Sport

Medal record

Representing Soviet Union

World Championships
	1981 Lille	-110 kg

Valery Anatolievich Kravchuk (Russian: Валерий Анатольевич Кравчук, born 1955) is a retired Soviet heavyweight weightlifter. In 1981 he won the Soviet, European and world titles. His brother Sergey is also a retired competitive weightlifter.

References

^ Знаменитые желтоводцы: чемпион мира Валерий Кравчук. dp.ua (14 May 2011)
Valery Kravchuk. chidlovski.net

v t e World Champions in Weightlifting – Men's Heavyweight (109 kg)
1891: Edward Lawrence Levy (GBR) 1898: Wilhelm Türk (Austrian Empire) 1899: Sergey Yeliseyev (RUS) 1903: François Lancoud (SUI) 1904: Josef Steinbach (Austrian Empire) 1905 (I): Josef Steinbach (Austrian Empire) 1905 (II): Josef Steinbach (Austrian Empire) 1905 (III): Émile Schweitzer (FRA) 1906: Heinrich Schneidereit (German Empire) 1907: Heinrich Rondi (German Empire) 1908: Josef Grafl (Austrian Empire) 1909: Josef Grafl (Austrian Empire) 1910 (I): Josef Grafl (Austrian Empire) 1910 (II): Josef Grafl (Austrian Empire) 1911 (I): Josef Grafl (Austrian Empire) 1911 (II): Karl Swoboda (Austrian Empire) 1911 (III): Berthold Tandler (Austrian Empire) 1911 (IV): Karl Swoboda (Austrian Empire) 1913: Josef Grafl (Austrian Empire) 1920: Karl Mörke (Weimar Republic) 1922: Harald Tammer (EST) 1923: Franz Aigner (AUT) 1937: Josef Manger (Nazi Germany) 1938: Josef Manger (Nazi Germany) 1946: John Davis (USA) 1947: John Davis (USA) 1949: John Davis (USA) 1950: John Davis (USA) 1951: John Davis (USA) 1953: Doug Hepburn (CAN) 1954: Norbert Schemansky (USA) 1955: Paul Anderson (USA) 1957: Aleksey Medvedev (URS) 1958: Aleksey Medvedev (URS) 1959: Yury Vlasov (URS) 1961: Yury Vlasov (URS) 1962: Yury Vlasov (URS) 1963: Yury Vlasov (URS) 1964: Leonid Zhabotinsky (URS) 1965: Leonid Zhabotinsky (URS) 1966: Leonid Zhabotinsky (URS) 1968: Leonid Zhabotinsky (URS) 1969: Bob Bednarski (USA) 1970: Jaan Talts (URS) 1971: Yury Kozin (URS) 1972: Jaan Talts (URS) 1973: Pavel Pervushin (URS) 1974: Valery Ustyuzhin (URS) 1975: Valentin Hristov (BUL) 1976: Yury Zaitsev (URS) 1977: Valentin Hristov (BUL) 1978: Yury Zaitsev (URS) 1979: Sergey Arakelov (URS) 1980: Leonid Taranenko (URS) 1981: Valery Kravchuk (URS) 1982: Sergey Arakelov (URS) 1983: Vyacheslav Klokov (URS) 1984: Norberto Oberburger (ITA) 1985: Yury Zakharevich (URS) 1986: Yury Zakharevich (URS) 1987: Yury Zakharevich (URS) 1989: Stefan Botev (BUL) 1990: Stefan Botev (BUL) 1991: Artur Akoyev (URS) 1993: Timur Taymazov (UKR) 1994: Timur Taymazov (UKR) 1995: Ihor Razoronov (URS) 1997: Cui Wenhua (CHN) 1998: Ihor Razoronov (UKR) 1999: Denys Hotfrid (UKR) 2001: Vladimir Smorchkov (RUS) 2002: Denys Hotfrid (UKR) 2003: Said Saif Asaad (QAT) 2005: Dmitry Klokov (RUS) 2006: Marcin Dołęga (POL) 2007: Andrei Aramnau (BLR) 2009: Marcin Dołęga (POL) 2010: Marcin Dołęga (POL) 2011: Khadzhimurat Akkaev (RUS) 2013: Ruslan Nurudinov (UZB) 2014: Ilya Ilyin (KAZ) 2015: Alexandr Zaichikov (KAZ) 2017: Ali Hashemi (IRI) 2018: Simon Martirosyan (ARM) 2019: Simon Martirosyan (ARM) 2021: Akbar Djuraev (UZB) 2022: Ruslan Nurudinov (UZB) 2023: Akbar Djuraev (UZB) 2024: Ruslan Nurudinov (UZB)
Open (1891–1904) +80 kg (1905–1913) +82.5 kg (1920–1950) +90 kg (1951–1968) 110 kg (1969–1991) 108 kg (1993–1997) 105 kg (1998–2017) 109 kg (2018–)

World Champions in Weightlifting – Men's Heavyweight (109 kg)