Valeriy Dvoynikov

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
Men's judo
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1976 Montreal Middleweight
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 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]

References
  1. "Valery Dvoynikov profile". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
  2. "Fighting Spirit by Isao Inokuma | Judo Info".
  3. "Home". fondationpierrelegrand.eu.


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