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Vyacheslav Ivanovskiy
Personal information
Native name	Вячеслав Ивановский
Born	August 14, 1975 (age 50); Novosibirsk, Soviet Union
Weight	218 lb (99 kg)
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Weightlifting
Weight class	Heavyweight
Medal record
Men's weightlifting
Representing Russia
European Championships

Vyacheslav Ivanovsky (Russian: Вячеслав Ивановский; born August 14, 1975, Russia, Novosibirsk) is a Russian former Olympic weightlifter.^[1]

Weightlifting career

Ivanovskiy won the silver medal at the 1995 Junior European Weightlifting Championships in Beer Sheva, Israel, in the Sub-Heavyweight class (lifting 370.0 kg).^[2] He won the bronze medal at the 1996 European Weightlifting Championships, in the Sub-Heavyweight class (lifting 377.5 kg).^[1]

Ivanovskiy competed for Israel at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, at the age of 20, in Weightlifting-Men's Heavyweight I (99 kg).^[1]^[3] He did not complete a lift in the snatch at 175.0 kg, and did not finish.^[1]^[4] When he competed in the Olympics, he weighed 218 lbs (99 kg).^[1]

He won the gold medal in the 1998 European Weightlifting Championships, in the Heavyweight class (lifting 402.5 kg).^[1] Ivanovskiy came in 4th at the 1999 European Weightlifting Championships in Spain in the 105 kg class, with a total lift of 402.5 kg.^[5]

Ivanovskiy came in 6th at the 2001 World Weightlifting Championships in Turkey in the 105 kg class, with a total lift of 438.7 kg.^[6] He came in 4th in the 2002 World Weightlifting Championships in Poland in the 105 kg class, with a total lift of 441.4.^[7]