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Moscow 1980 men s shot put gold medallist dies at age of 65 Thursday, 7 January 2021
The 1980 Olympic shot put champion Vladimir Kiselyov has died at the age of 65 in Ukraine, it has been announced.
The death of Kiselyov, who represented the Soviet Union at those Games in Moscow, was announced by Ruslan Protsenko, the Deputy Mayor of the city of Kremenchug in the Poltava region.
“Today the Olympic champion, honorary citizen of Kremenchug, Vladimir Kiselev, has passed away,” Protsenko wrote on his Facebook page, Russia’s official state news agency
TASS reported.
Kiselyov had been born in Kremenchug on January 1 in 1957.
Сьогодні не стало Олімпійського чемпіона, почесного громадянина Кременчука Володимира Кисельова.
He upset the odds at Moscow 1980 to become the first Soviet athlete to win the men’s Olympic shot put title.