| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Вячеслав Ивановский |
| Born | August 14, 1975 |
| Weight | 218 lb (99 kg) |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Russia |
| Sport | Weightlifting |
| Weight class | Heavyweight |
Vyacheslav Ivanovskiy (also "Viacheslav"; born August 14, 1975, Russia, Novosibirsk) is a Russian former Olympic weightlifter. [1]
Ivanovskiy won the silver medal at the 1995 Junior European Weightlifting Championships in Beer Sheva, Israel, in the Sub-Heavyweight class (lifting 370.0 kg). [2] He won the bronze medal at the 1996 European Weightlifting Championships, in the Sub-Heavyweight class (lifting 377.5 kg). [1]
Ivanovskiy competed for Israel at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, at the age of 20, in Weightlifting-Men's Heavyweight I (99 kg). [1] [3] He did not complete a lift in the snatch at 175.0 kg, and did not finish. [1] [4] When he competed in the Olympics, he weighed 218 lbs (99 kg). [1]
He won the gold medal in the 1998 European Weightlifting Championships, in the Heavyweight class (lifting 402.5 kg). [1] Ivanovskiy came in 4th at the 1999 European Weightlifting Championships in Spain in the 105 kg class, with a total lift of 402.5 kg. [5]
Ivanovskiy came in 6th at the 2001 World Weightlifting Championships in Turkey in the 105 kg class, with a total lift of 438.7 kg. [6] He came in 4th in the 2002 World Weightlifting Championships in Poland in the 105 kg class, with a total lift of 441.4. [7]
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