Boris Pavlov

Personal information
Born	21 March 1947 Navoloki, Russia[1]
Died	22 May 2004 Furmanov, Russia[2][1]
Height	172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
Sport	Weightlifting
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union World Championships 1971 Lima -82.5 kg European Championships 1972 Constanta -82.5 kg

Boris Andreyevich Pavlov (Russian: Борис Андреевич Павлов; 21 March 1947 – 22 May 2004^[3]) was a Russian weightlifter who won a world title in 1971. Next year he won a European title and competed at the 1972 Olympics, but failed to complete the press event.^[4] Between 1969 and 1972 Pavlov set six ratified world records.^[5]

Pavlov spent his last 20 years in Furmanov, where a memorial weightlifting tournament is held in his honor after his death.^[2][1]

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