Valeriy Vasylovych Dvoynikov (Ukrainian: Валерій Васильович Двойников, born 4 May 1950 in Ozersk) is a Ukrainian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics.[1]
Medal record | ||
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Men's judo | ||
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Olympic Games | ||
![]() | 1976 Montreal | Middleweight |
World Championships | ||
![]() | 1975 Vienna | Half Middleweight |
In 1976 he won the silver medal in the middleweight.
He was also vice world champion in Vienna (1975) and 4 times European champion.
Isao Inokuma said that "Among the foreign judoists with brilliant shin-gi-tai (spirit, skill, and power) are the Soviet Union's Nevzorov, the victor in the light-middleweight class in the Montreal Olympics, Dvoinikov of the Soviet Union, who was runner-up in the middleweight division at the same Olympics, and Lorentz of East Germany, who won the 95-kilograms-and-under class in the Jigoro Kano Cup International Judo Tournament held in Tokyo in 1978".[2]
He is also a co-founder in 2016 with his son, a politologue and poet Valery Dvoinikov, of the Peter the Great's International Foundation working for the cultural reconciliation between Europe and Russia. [3]
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