Anatoly Khrapaty

Anatoly Krapaty

Personal information
Born	20 October 1962 Atbasar District, Kazakhstan
Died	11 August 2008 (aged 45) Arshaly, Kazakhstan
Height	171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	89–103 kg (196–227 lb)
Sport
Sport	Weightlifting
Club	Armed Forces Tselinograd
Medal record Men’s Weightlifting Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1988 Seoul -90 kg World Championships 1985 Sodertelje -90 kg 1986 Sofia -90 kg 1987 Ostrava -90 kg 1989 Athens -90 kg 1990 Budapest -90 kg European Championships 1984 Vittorio -82.5 kg 1985 Katowice -82.5 kg 1986 Karl-Marx-Stadt -90 kg 1987 Reims -90 kg 1988 Cardiff -90 kg 1989 Athens -90 kg 1990 Aalborg -90 kg Representing  Kazakhstan Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta 99 kg Asian Games 1994 Hiroshima -91 kg 1998 Bangkok -105 kg World Championships 1993 Melbourne -91 kg 1995 Guangzhou -99 kg

Anatoly Mikhaylovich Khrapaty (also Chrapaty, Russian: Анатолий Михайлович Храпатый; 20 October 1962 – 11 August 2008) was a heavyweight weightlifter who competed for the Soviet Union and Kazakhstan. Between 1984 and 1996 he won a gold and a silver Olympic medal, and five world and five European titles. He also set five world records: one in the snatch, three in the clean and jerk and one in the total.^[1][2]

Kharpaty retired in 1998 to become a Kazakhstani national coach. He died at age 45, a few days before his flight to the 2008 Summer Olympics, when his motorcycle was hit by an oncoming vehicle.^[3]

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