Olympic Weightlifting Champion David Riegert Dies
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David Riegert, Olympic weightlifting champion and honored coach of Russia, has died at the age of 79, the press service of the Russian Weightlifting Federation reported. “He died a few hours ago today, the cause of death is still unknown. The Russian Weightlifting Federation expresses its deepest condolences to family and friends,” the Federation's press service quotes TASS. Riegert won the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. He also won six gold me…
He won the Olympics, the World Cup and the European Championship, and set 65 world records. The post The Russian weightlifter, after whom a sports school was named in a Hungarian city, has died first appeared on 24.hu.
The weightlifting academy and sports school founded in 2013 in Iregszemcse, Tolna County, was named after the weightlifter who competed in the Soviet colors.
==Death==The 1976 Olympic heavy athletics champion David Rigert died at the age of 79 on October 26, and the death of a famous Soviet athlete and well-deserved Russian coach was reported in the Russian Heavy Athlete Federation (FTAR).
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