What is Viktor Mazin?
{{Infobox sportsperson |name= |image=RIAN archive 103479 Soviet weight-lifter Viktor Mazin during the XXII Olympic Games (cropped).jpg | image_size = |caption= Mazin at the 1980 Olympics |birth_date= {{birth date|1954|06|18|df=y}} |birth_place=Chernovskiye Kopi, [[Chita Oblast]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] |death_date= {{death date and age|2022|01|08|1954|06|18|df=y}} |death_place= [[Minusinsk]], [[Krasnoyarsk Krai]], Russia | height = 156 cm | weight = 60 kg |sport=Weightlifting |club=Yenbek Shakhtinsk | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|the {{URS}}}} {{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}} {{MedalGold|[[1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Moscow]]|[[Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 60 kg|-60&nbsp;kg]]}} }} '''Viktor Ivanovich Mazin''' ({{lang-ru|Виктор Иванович Мазин}}; 18 June 1954 – 8 January 2022) was a Soviet [[featherweight]] weightlifter. He won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympics in [[Moscow]]. He retired in 1982 after winning a Soviet Cup. Mazin died in [[Minusinsk]], [[Russia]] on 8 January 2022, at the age of 67.<ref>[https://rfwf.ru/news/8-yanvarya-ushel-iz-zhizni-sovetskiy-tyazheloatlet-olimpiyskiy-chempion-zasluzhennyy-master-sporta-s/ 8 января ушёл из жизни советский тяжелоатлет, олимпийский чемпион, заслуженный мастер спорта СССР Виктор Иванович Мазин]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mazin, Viktor}} [[Category:1954 births]] [[Category:2022 deaths]] [[Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union]] [[Category:Soviet weightlifters]] {{sports-bio-stub}}