Viktor Solodov


Viktor Viktorovich Solodov is a retired Russian weightlifter. Between 1983 and 1986 he won three gold and four silver medals at the world and European championships and set four ratified world records. He missed the 1984 Summer Olympics due to their boycott by the Soviet Union and the 1988 Summer Olympics due to an injury.
Solodov retired in 1990 and later worked as a weightlifting administrator and international referee. He is married and has two sons and one daughter.