ATHLETE

Yurik Vardanyan

1956 - 2018

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Yuri (Yurik) Norayrovich Vardanyan (Russian: Юрий (Юрик) Норайрович Варданян; Armenian: Յուրի (Յուրիկ) Վարդանյան, also transliterated Yuri (Yurik) Vardanian, 13 June 1956 – 1 November 2018) was a Soviet Armenian weightlifter. Vardanyan won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics, becoming the world's first weightlifter to achieve a 400 kilogram total in the 82.5 kg weight category. During his career he set several world records. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yurik Vardanyan has received more than 154,156 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Yurik Vardanyan is the 474th most popular athlete (up from 677th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Armenia (up from 66th in 2019) and the most popular Armenian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yurik Vardanyan ranks 474 out of 6,025. Before him are Georg Åberg, John Kuck, Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, Mel Sheppard, John Thomas, and Hermann Barrelet. After him are Charles Gmelin, Hans Günter Winkler, Justin Gatlin, Lyudmila Shevtsova, Gyula Zsivótzky, and Emiel Puttemans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Yurik Vardanyan ranks 257. Before him are Jamie Hyneman, Simon Tahamata, Lounès Matoub, Steve Barron, Natalya Andreychenko, and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. After him are Vladislav Listyev, Al Corley, Pedro Santana Lopes, Nicanor Duarte, Paul Day, and Andy Goldsworthy. Among people deceased in 2018, Yurik Vardanyan ranks 278. Before him are Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Lucian Pintilie, Anne Treisman, David Douglas Duncan, Ringo Lam, and Sergio Pitol. After him are Hans Günter Winkler, Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, Tomasz Stańko, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Thomas S. Monson, and Toshiko Fujita.

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In Armenia

Among people born in Armenia, Yurik Vardanyan ranks 62 out of 163. Before him are Tatevik Sazandaryan (1916), Vladimir Yengibaryan (1932), Ofelya Hambardzumyan (1925), Minas Avetisyan (1928), Hasmik Papian (1961), and Hamo Beknazarian (1891). After him are Shavo Odadjian (1974), Ara Shiraz (1941), Regina Ghazaryan (1915), Axel Bakunts (1899), Khoren Oganesian (1955), and Hrant Shahinyan (1923).

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Among ATHLETES In Armenia

Among athletes born in Armenia, Yurik Vardanyan ranks 1. After him are Robert Emmiyan (1965), Igor Tselovalnikov (1944), Anna Chicherova (1982), Oksen Mirzoyan (1961), Ara Abrahamian (1975), Artur Ayvazyan (1973), Sergei Alifirenko (1959), Tigran Vardan Martirosyan (1983), Hripsime Khurshudyan (1987), Dmitry Volkov (null), and Hovhannes Davtyan (1983).

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