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| Full name | Russell Neville Pery | |||||||||||
| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||
| Born | 13 March 1938 Townsville, Queensland, Australia | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||
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Russell Neville Pery (born 13 March 1938), also known as Neville Russell Pery or Russell Perry, is an Australian weightlifter. He competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics in the lightweight division and in the 1968 Summer Olympics in the light heavyweight division. [1] [2] He is from Townsville in Queensland. [3]
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