Aleksey Vakhonin

Aleksey Vakhonin

Vakhonin assuming a stork pose while winning the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
Personal information
Born	10 March 1935 Gavrilovka, Kemerovo Oblast, Russian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	1 September 1993 (aged 58) Shakhty, Russia
Height	1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport	weightlifting
Club	Trud Shakhty
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Bantamweight World Weightlifting Championships 1963 Stockholm 56 kg 1964 Tokyo 56 kg 1966 East Berlin 56 kg European Weightlifting Championships 1963 Estocolmo 56 kg 1965 Sofia 56 kg 1966 Berlin 56 kg 1968 Leningrad 56 kg USSR Weightlifting Championships 1961 Dnepropetrovsk 56 kg 1962 Tbilisi 56 kg 1963 Moscow 56 kg 1964 Kiev 56 kg 1965 Yerevan 56 kg 1966 Novosibirsk 56 kg 1967 Moscow 56 kg 1968 Lugansk 56 kg 1969 Rostov 56 kg 1970 Vilnius 56 kg

Aleksey Ivanovich Vakhonin (Russian: Алексей Иванович Вахонин, 10 March 1935 – 1 September 1993) was a former Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union. He won a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.^[1][2]