Yury Kozin

Yury Kozin
	Kozin in 2017
Personal information
Born	20 September 1948 (age 76); Moscow, Soviet Union
Sport
Sport	Weightlifting
Club	Dynamo Moscow
Coached by	Vladimir Pushkarev
Medal record
Representing the Soviet Union
World Weightlifting Championships

Yury Yevgenyevich Kozin (Russian: Юрий Евгеньевич Козин; born 20 September 1948) is a retired Soviet heavyweight weightlifter who won a Soviet and a world title in 1971 and set six ratified world records in 1970–72: five in the press^[1] and one in the clean and jerk.^[2]^[3]

Kozin graduated from the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism,^[2] and after retiring from competitions worked as a weightlifting coach. He prepared Valery Yurov to the 1990 World Championships.^[4]

References

^ "STRENGTH RECORD, Weightlifting World Records". www.strengthrecord.com. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
^ ^a ^b Динамо. Энциклопедия. ОЛМА Медиа Групп. 2003. p. 278. ISBN 978-5-224-04399-6.
^ Yury Kozin. chidlovski.net.
^ Юрий Козин: Первую штангу точили в подвале. Moskovskij Komsomolets. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2019.

[srwl-1] "STRENGTH RECORD, Weightlifting World Records". www.strengthrecord.com. Retrieved 15 April 2025.

[r1-2] Динамо. Энциклопедия. ОЛМА Медиа Групп. 2003. p. 278. ISBN 978-5-224-04399-6.

[r2-3] Yury Kozin. chidlovski.net.

[4] Юрий Козин: Первую штангу точили в подвале. Moskovskij Komsomolets. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2019.

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