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Birth name | Yury Nikolaevich Suslin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 19 May 1935 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 7 October 2020 | (aged 85)|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 93 kg (205 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yury Nikolaevich Suslin (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Суслин; 19 May 1935 – 7 October 2020)[1] was a retired Russian rower who specialised in the eights. In this event he won two silver medals at the European championships of 1963–1964[2] and finished fifth at the 1964 Summer Olympics.[3] Suslin competed at the 1961 European Rowing Championships with the coxed four and won silver.[4]
His younger brother Viktor is also a retired Olympic rower.[5]