Valery Shary
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Valery Shary (Template:Langx, born 2 January 1947) is a former Belarusian weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union.[1]
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Biography
Shary was born in Chervyen.
Shary won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in light-heavyweight weightlifting, setting an Olympic record in the process.[3][4] He also won the 1975 and 1976 World Championships in the same weight class.[4]
George Eisen of Nazareth University included Shary on his list of Jewish Olympic Medalists (though he acknowledges that he may have included non-Jews).[4][5][6][7] Eisen's list has been published and used in numerous other academia on Jews and Sports.[8][9][10]
See also
References
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- ↑ "1976 Summer Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Weightlifting" Script error: No such module "webarchive". – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 23, 2008)
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- ↑ Siegman, Joseph. Jewish sports legends: the International Jewish Hall of Fame, p. 174. Brassey's, 2000. Template:ISBN. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
- ↑ Eisen, George. "Jewish Olympic Medalists", International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
- ↑ Mayer, Paul Yogi. "Valery+Shary" Jews and the Olympic Games – Sport: A Springboard for Minorities, p. 171. Vallentine Mitchell, 2004. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ Jews and the Olympic Games:the clash between sport and politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medallists by Paul Taylor
- ↑ Jewish Sports Legends by Joseph Siegman
- ↑ Jews and the Olympic Games – Sport: A Springboard for Minorities by Paul Yogi Mayer, 2000
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