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Igor Olshanetskyi

Igor Olshanetskyi is an Israeli weightlifter in the +105 kg category who represented Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

born 1986Israeli weightlifting champion 2014-2016Competing at the 2016 OlympicsIsraeli weightlifting records

Born: 16 February 1986, Kharkiv
Occupation: weightlifter
Education: Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture

Igor Olshanetskyi was born in 1986 in Kharkiv

Olshanetskyi was born on 16 February 1986 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. He is Jewish. After his father died, his grandmother raised him from a young age.

He began lifting weights at 13. He studied sports and recreation at the Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture.

In 2010 he immigrated to Israel. He lives in Ashdod with his wife Elena and works in construction and building security.

He was Israeli champion from 2014 to 2016 and holds Israeli records in the snatch, the clean and jerk and the total. He competed at World and European Championships and won the Mediterranean Cup in 2013. At the 2014 European Championships in Tel Aviv he set an Israeli record with a 214 kg clean and jerk.

His 12th place at the 2016 European Championships in Norway met the Israeli standard for the Olympics. Israel received a place after the teams of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan were disqualified. At the Rio Olympics he lifted 165 kg in the snatch and 207 kg in the clean and jerk, finishing 17th.