Anatoli Samotsvetov
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Anatoliy Vasilyevich Samotsvetov (born 27 November 1932) was a Soviet
Soviet Union
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 athlete who competed mainly in the hammer throw. He was born in Irkutsk
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Irkutsk is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population: .-History:In 1652, Ivan Pokhabov built a zimovye near the site of Irkutsk for gold trading and for the collection of fur taxes from the Buryats. In 1661, Yakov Pokhabov...

, Irkutsk Oblast
Irkutsk Oblast
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Samotsvetov competed for the USSR
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 at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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 held in Melbourne
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, Australia
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 where he won the bronze medal. He trained at Burevestnik in Moscow
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