Fyodor Fyodorovich Bogdanovsky ( 16 April 1930 – 2 October 2014) was a Soviet weightlifter. Between 1954 and 1959 he won an Olympic gold medal, four European titles, and five silver medals at world championships, losing to either Pete George or Tommy Kono. He set eight ratified world records, five in the press and three in the total. Bogdanovsky took up weightlifting in 1948 and retired in 1963. Later he trained weightlifters in Saint Petersburg, and in the 1970s worked with the Soviet weightlifting team. References External links 1930 births 2014 deaths People from Udomelsky District Russian male weightlifters Soviet male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of the Soviet Union Weightlifters at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR European Weightlifting Championships medalists World Weightlifting Championships medalists Sportspeople from Tver Oblast