Viktor Georgievich Bushuev (, 18 May 1933 – 25 April 2003) was a Soviet and Russian weightlifter. During his career, he won three world titles (1957–1959) and an Olympic gold medal (1960), and set three official and two unofficial world records, all in the total. Bushuev was selected to the national team in 1955 and dominated his 67.5 kg weight category until 1960. He retired in 1964 after failing the national trials for the Olympic team and became a weightlifting coach in his native Nizhny Novgorod. References External links WeightliftingExchange.com Viktor Bushuev Wins 1958 World Weightlifting Championships – Lightweights 1933 births 2003 deaths Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters at the 1960 Summer Olympics World Weightlifting Championships medalists Olympic weightlifters of the Soviet Union Russian male weightlifters Soviet male weightlifters Sportspeople from Nizhny Novgorod