What is Leonid Zhabotinsky?
[[File:Leonid Zhabotinsky 1968cr2.jpg|thumb|Leonid Zhabotinsky in 1968]] '''Leonid Ivanovych Zhabotynsky''' ({{Lang-uk|Леонiд Iванович Жаботинський}}; 28 January 1938 &ndash; 14 January 2016) was a [[Soviet]] [[weightlifter]]. He set 19 world records in the [[super heavyweight]] class. He won [[gold medal]]s at the [[1964 Summer Olympics|1964]] and [[1968 Summer Olympics]]. Zhabotinsky was born in a village in Uspenka, [[Sumy Oblast]], [[Ukrainian SSR]]. He was born a [[Cossack]] family. He was married and had two sons. He became a [[Russia]]n citizen after the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sport-express.ru/olympic14/newspaper/213467/|title=Леонид Жаботинский: «Шварценеггер всегда был моим поклонником»|date=8 July 2008|access-date=14 January 2016|language=ru}}</ref> Zhabotinsky died after a long illness on 14 January 2016 in [[Zaporizhia]]. He was 77.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/russian-2x-olympic-weightlift-champ-leonid-zhabotinsky-dies/2016/01/14/619cc1aa-babc-11e5-85cd-5ad59bc19432_story.html|title=Soviet 2x Olympic weightlift champ Leonid Zhabotinsky dies|date=14 January 2016|access-date=14 January 2016|work=[[The Washington Post]]|archive-date=14 January 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160114130104/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/russian-2x-olympic-weightlift-champ-leonid-zhabotinsky-dies/2016/01/14/619cc1aa-babc-11e5-85cd-5ad59bc19432_story.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhabotinsky, Leonid}} [[Category:1938 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] <!-- [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Ukraine]] --> [[Category:Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics]] [[Category:Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics]] [[Category:Ukrainian sportspeople]] [[Category:Russian sportspeople]] [[Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union]] [[Category:Soviet weightlifters]] [[Category:People from Sumy Oblast]] {{Sports-bio-stub}}