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Aleksandr Medved
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Belarusian Soviet wrestler (1937—2024)
OverviewAI-generated
Aleksandr Medved was a male athlete and coach who competed in amateur wrestling for the Soviet Union and Belarus. Born in Bila Tserkva in 1937, he participated in the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics, as well as wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the men's freestyle +100 kg category, which he won. He held Soviet Union citizenship and later Belarusian citizenship.
Medved received several awards, including the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Badge of Honour, the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and the title of Merited Coach of the USSR. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and worked at the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. His field of work included sport, autobiography, and recall. He died in 2024.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1937
- Works
- 1
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Universal Solvation Model Based on Solute Electron Density and on a Continuum Model of the Solvent Defined by the Bulk Dielectric Constant and Atomic Surface Tensions
· 2009 · cited 17,000x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 8,020x
- Dissecting the multicellular ecosystem of metastatic melanoma by single-cell RNA-seq
· 2016 · cited 4,827x
- Global prevalence and burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
· 2021 · cited 4,543x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1937-09-16 ) 16 September 1937, Bila Tserkva , Kyiv Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , USSR
- Died
- 2 September 2024 (2024-09-02) (aged 86), Minsk , Belarus
- Height
- 190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
- Weight
- 104 kg (229 lb)
- Sport
- Freestyle wrestling
- Club
- Burevestnik Minsk
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Aleksandr
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Bila Tserkva
- Place of death
- Minsk
- Occupation
- athlete
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Belarusian
- Field of work
- wrestling
- Sport
- amateur wrestling
- Country for sport
- Belarus
- Mass
- 120
- Image
- Aleksandr Medved 1972b.jpg
- Height
- 190
- Work location
- Soviet Union
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- date of birth
- 1937-09-16
- Commons category
- Aleksandr Medved
- name in native language
- Аляксандр Васілевіч Мядзведзь
- date of death
- 2024-09-02
- place of burial
- Eastern Cemetery
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Encyclopedic overview
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Medved (Russian: Александр Васильевич Медведь; Belarusian: Аляксандр Васілевіч Мядзведзь; 16 September 1937 – 2 September 2024) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet Belarusian freestyle wrestler who competed for the Soviet Union and was named "one of the greatest wrestlers in history" by FILA, the sport's governing body. Between 1962 and 1972 he won three Olympic gold medals, seven world and three European titles. He served as the Olympic flag bearer for the Soviet Union in 1972, for Belarus in 2004 and recited the Judge's Oath at the Opening Ceremony of the 1980 Olympics.
Biography
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