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Nov 29, 1938 Died on 02 Aug 2003 (aged 64)
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About Vladimir Golovanov
- Vladimir Semyonovich Golovanov (Russian: ???????? ????????? ?????????, born 29 November 1938 – 2 August 2003) was a Russian weightlifter who won a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
- Between 1963 and 1968 he set five official world records, all in the press.Golovanov took weightlifting in 1957 while serving with the Soviet Army in the Russian Far East.
- He had his best achievements in 1964–1965, when he won two medals at the Olympics and world championships and set three world records.
- In 1965 he was injured and recovered only by 1968, when he won a Soviet heavyweight title and set his last world record.
- He retired in 1972, after finished third at the national championships, and later coached weightlifters in Khabarovsk.
- In 1985 he became president of the Russian Far East weightlifting federation, and from 1998 until his death headed a sport school in Khabarovsk.
