# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yurik-vardanyan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:17:43.054Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yurik-vardanyan"
name: "Yurik Vardanyan"
slug: "yurik-vardanyan"
description: "Yuri (Yurik) Norayrovich Vardanyan was a Soviet Armenian weightlifter. Vardanyan won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics, becoming the world's first weightlifter to achieve a 400 kilogram total in the 82.5 kg weight category. During his career he set 41 world records. He trained at Lokomotiv in Leninakan, Armenia. He earned the title Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1977 and was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1985. In 1994 he was elected a member of the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame."
tagline: "Soviet weightlifter (1956–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yurik_Vardanian.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1956-06-13"
deathDate: "2018-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump