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Water polo has been part of the Summer Olympics program since the second games, in 1900. A women's water polo tournament was introduced for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Hungary has been the most successful country in men's tournament, while the United States is the only team to win multiple times at the women's tournament since its introduction. Italy is the first and only country to win both the men's and women's water polo tournaments.
Valery Shary is a former Belarusian weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union.
Valery Pavlovich Gopin is a Russian handball player. He became Olympic champion in 1988 with the Soviet Union national handball team, and in 1992 with the Unified Team. He became European champion with the Russia national handball team in 1996.
Valeri Goryushev was a Russian volleyball player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics. He was born in Yekaterinburg. In 1996 he was part of the Russian team which finished fourth in the Olympic tournament. He played seven matches. Four years later he won the silver medal with the Russian team in the 2000 Olympic tournament. He played two matches.
The men's high jump field event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 1. Thirty-two athletes from 23 nations competed. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Robert Shavlakadze of the Soviet Union, the nation's first victory in the men's high jump. Valery Brumel took silver; both men surpassed the previous best placing for the Soviet team of bronze. American John Thomas took bronze to keep alive the United States' streak of medaling in every edition of the Olympic men's high jump.
Valery Rezantsev is a Russian Greco-Roman wrestler. He was an Olympic gold medalist in 1972 and in 1976, competing for the Soviet Union. He won gold medals at the 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, and 1975 World Wrestling Championships.
Aleksandr Krasnov is a Soviet former cyclist. He won the gold medal in the Men's team pursuit at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Valery Vladimirovich Miloserdov was a Russian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics and won bronze medals.
Valery Ivanov is a Kazakhstani biathlete. He competed in the men's 20 km individual event at the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Valery Goncharov is a Soviet diver. He competed in the men's 3 metre springboard event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Valery Statsenko is a Russian diver. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Valery Ruzhnikov is a Soviet sailor. He competed in the Dragon event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Valery Ushkov is a Russian sailor. He competed in the Tornado event at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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- ↑ "Valery Zubanov". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
