Yurik Vardanyan

Yurik Norayrovich Vardanyan, also transliterated Yuri Vardanian, was a Soviet Armenian weightlifter, born on 13 June 1956 and died on 1 November 2018. He won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics, becoming the first weightlifter to reach a 400 kilogram total in the 82.5 kg category. He set 41 world records and trained at Lokomotiv in Leninakan, Armenia. He was named Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1977, received the Order of Lenin in 1985 and was elected to the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame in 1994. Later he served as an adviser to the president and as Armenia's Minister of Sports. The English Wikipedia lead supports these facts.