Moisey Kasyanik
Soviet weightlifter
Moisey Davidovich Kasyanik (Russian: Моисе́й Дави́дович Касья́ник, also "Moisei and Moysey" and "Kas'ianik, Kosyanik, or Kosianiki"; born January 1, 1911 – 1988) was a Soviet weightlifter.
He was Jewish, and was born in Novo-Zhitomyr, Kherson Guberniya (Russian Empire).
He won a gold medal at the 1937 Workers' Olympiad in Antwerp, and won bronze medals at the 1946 World Weightlifting Championships in Paris (60 kg) and at the 1947 European Weightlifting Championships in Helsinki (60 kg).
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