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{{short description|Russian weightlifter}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name        = Yury Zakharevich
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| birth_name  = Yury Ivanovich Zakharevich
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1963|01|18}}
| birth_place = Mokshino, [[Tver Oblast|Kalinin Oblast]], [[Soviet Union]]
| death_date  = 
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| nationality = {{flag|URS|name=Soviet Union}}
| height      = {{height|ft=5|in=11}}
| weight      = 
| country     = [[Soviet Union]]
| sport       = [[Weightlifting]]
| event       = 90 kg <br> 100 kg <br> 110 kg 
| pb          = {{unbulleted list|Snatch: 210 kg (1988), |Clean and jerk: 250 kg (1988), |Total: 455 kg (1988)}}
| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's [[Olympic weightlifting]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Seoul]]|[[Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 kg|110 kg]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Weightlifting Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|1985 Sodertelje|110 kg}}
{{MedalGold|1986 Sofia|110 kg}}
{{MedalGold|1987 Ostrava|110 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|1981 Lille|90 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|1982 Ljubljana|100 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[European Weightlifting Championships|European Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|1984 Vittorio|110 kg}}
{{MedalGold|1985 Katowice|110 kg}}
{{MedalGold|1986 Karl-Marx-Stadt|110 kg}}
{{MedalGold|1987 Reims|110 kg}}
{{MedalGold|1988 Cardiff|110 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|1981 Lille|{{0}}90 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|1982 Ljubljana|100 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|1990 Aalborg|110 kg}}
}}

'''Yury Ivanovich Zakharevich''' ({{langx|ru|Юрий Иванович Захаревич}}, born January 18, 1963) is a former [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] [[Olympic weightlifting|weightlifter]] for the [[Soviet Union]]. He trained at [[Dynamo Sports Club|Dynamo]] in [[Dimitrovgrad, Russia|Dimitrovgrad]]. Yury competed in the middle-heavyweight (90&nbsp;kg), sub-heavyweight (100&nbsp;kg) and heavyweight (110&nbsp;kg) weight classes during his career.<ref name="y31">{{Cite web|url=http://www.chidlovski.net/liftup/l_athleteResult.asp?a_id=310|title = Yury Zakharevich, Top Olympic Lifters of the 20th Century @ Lift up}}</ref>

Yury Zakharevich has been described as one of the most technically gifted weightlifters of all time. In his analysis of the snatch technique of Yury Zakharevich, the [[Biomechanics|biomechanist]] Robert Roman said that "Zakharevich raised the barbell in the snatch to "the minimal possible height of the lift lifters of his height can raise a barbell and still successfully fix it overhead."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roman |first1=Robert |title=Weightlifting Yearbook |date=1984 |publisher=Sportivny Press |location=Livonia, Michigan}}</ref>

== Weightlifting achievements ==
* Olympic champion (1988);
* Senior world champion (1985–1987);
* Silver medalist in Senior World Championships (1981 & 1982);
* European champion (1984–1988);
* Silver medalist in European Championships (1981, 1982, & 1990);
* Set 36 world records during career.<ref name="y31" />

== Career bests ==
* [[Snatch (weightlifting)|Snatch]]: 210.0&nbsp;kg in the class to 110&nbsp;kg;
* [[Clean and jerk]]: 250.5&nbsp;kg 1988 on [[Cardiff]] in the class to 110&nbsp;kg;
* Total: 440.0&nbsp;kg (200.0 + 240.0) 1983 on [[Odessa]] in the class to 100&nbsp;kg;
* Total: 455.0&nbsp;kg (210.0 + 245.0) [[1988 Summer Olympics]] in the class to 110&nbsp;kg.<ref name="y31" /><ref name="srwl">{{cite web|url=https://strengthrecord.com/weightlifting-world-records/ |title=STRENGTH RECORD, Weightlifting World Records |website=www.strengthrecord.com |access-date=15 April 2025}}</ref>

==Major results==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan=2 width=40 | Year
! rowspan=2 width=250 | Venue
! rowspan=2 width=60 | Weight
! colspan=4 | Snatch (kg)
! colspan=4 | Clean & Jerk (kg)
! rowspan=2 width=60 |  Total
! rowspan=2 width=40 |  Rank
|-
! width=60 | 1
! width=60 | 2
! width=60 | 3
! width=45 | Rank
! width=60 | 1
! width=60 | 2
! width=60 | 3
! width=45 | Rank
|-
! colspan=13 | [[Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|-
| [[Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics|1988]] || align=left | {{flag icon|KOR}} [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]] || [[Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 kg|110 kg]] || 195.0 || 205.0 '''[[List of world records in Olympic weightlifting|WR]]''' || '''210.0 [[List of world records in Olympic weightlifting|WR]]''' || 1 || '''245.0''' || <s>251.0</s> || <s>251.0</s> || 1 || '''455.0 [[List of world records in Olympic weightlifting|WR]]''' || '''{{Gold1}}'''
|-
! colspan=13|[[World Weightlifting Championships|World Championships]]
|-
|[[1986 World Weightlifting Championships|1986]] || align=left| {{flag icon|BUL}} [[Sofia]], [[Bulgaria]] || [[1986 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 110 kg|110 kg]] || 195.0 || <s>201.0</s> || '''201.0 [[List of world records in Olympic weightlifting|WR]]''' || {{gold1}} || 235.0 || 245.0 || '''248.0 [[List of world records in Olympic weightlifting|WR]]''' || {{gold1}} || '''447.5 [[List of world records in Olympic weightlifting|WR]]''' || {{gold1}}
|-
|[[1987 World Weightlifting Championships|1987]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzAdOPIMnHk  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/AzAdOPIMnHk |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=1987 World Championships|website=[[YouTube]] |date=25 October 2017 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> || align=left| {{flag icon|TCH}} [[Ostrava]], [[Czechoslovakia]] || [[1987 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 110 kg|110 kg]] || 195.0 || '''203.0 [[List of world records in Olympic weightlifting|WR]]''' || -- ||{{gold1}}|| 235.0 || '''242.5''' || <s>248.5</s> || {{gold1}} || '''445''' || {{gold1}}
|-
|}

== World records ==
*3/21/1981 Snatch 181&nbsp;kg Middle Heavyweight Lvov<ref name="y31" />
*3/21/1981 Snatch 182&nbsp;kg Middle Heavyweight Lvov
*6/20/1981 Snatch 183.5&nbsp;kg Middle Heavyweight Lignano-Sabbiadoro
*6/20/1981 Total 405&nbsp;kg Middle Heavyweight Lignano-Sabbiadoro
*12/21/1981 Clean & Jerk 232.5&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Donetsk
*12/24/1981 Snatch 188&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Donetsk
*12/24/1981 Snatch 192.5&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Donetsk
*12/24/1981 Total 417.5&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Donetsk
*12/24/1981 Total 425&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Donetsk
*5/22/1982 Snatch 193.5&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Dnipropetrovsk
*5/22/1982 Snatch 195&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Dnipropetrovsk
*5/22/1982 Clean & Jerk 234&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Dnipropetrovsk
*5/22/1982 Clean & Jerk 235&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Dnipropetrovsk
*5/22/1982 Total 427.5&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Dnipropetrovsk
*5/22/1982 Total 430&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Dnipropetrovsk
*9/25/1982 Snatch 195.5&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Ljubljana
*11/3/1982 Snatch 195.5&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Haskovo
*3/4/1983 Snatch 200&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Odessa
*3/4/1983 Clean & Jerk 240&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Odessa
* 3/4/1983 Total 432.5&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Odessa
*3/4/1983 Total 440&nbsp;kg Sub Heavyweight Odessa
*9/16/1984 Snatch 197.5&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Varna
*9/16/1984 Snatch 200.5&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Varna
*11/15/1986 Snatch 201&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Sofia
*11/15/1986 Clean & Jerk 248&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Sofia
*11/15/1986 Total 445&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Sofia
*11/15/1986 Total 447.5&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Sofia
*5/9/1987 Snatch 202.5&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Reims
*9/13/1987 Snatch 203&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Ostrava
*4/30/1988 Snatch 203.5&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Cardiff
*4/30/1988 Clean & Jerk 250.5&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Cardiff
*4/30/1988 Total 450&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Cardiff
*4/30/1988 Total 452.5&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Cardiff
*9/27/1988 Snatch 205&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Seoul
*9/27/1988 Snatch 210&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Seoul
*9/27/1988 Total 455&nbsp;kg Heavyweight Seoul

== References ==
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