Viktor MAZIN

Kazakh Viktor Mazin's best year was 1980, when he won his only Soviet title in featherweight and was selected for the Soviet 1980 Olympic team. At the Olympics Mazin set six of his seven world records, three in snatch, one in clean & jerk and two in total, to win an Olympic gold, which also doubled as a World Championship. Mazin set one more featherweight world record in snatch in 1981, won silver at the Soviet championships in 1979 and 1981, and won the Soviet featherweight cups in 1978 and 1982, to conclude his weightlifting career.