Career
He trained at Dynamo in Dimitrovgrad. Yury competed in the Middle-Heavyweight(90 kg), Sub-Heavyweight(100 kg) and Heavyweight(110 kg) weight classes during his career. Snatch: 210.0 kg in the class to 110 kg.
Clean and jerk: 250.5 kg 1988 on Cardiff in the class to 110 kg.
Total: 440.0 kg (2000 + 2400) 1983 on Odessa in the class to 100 kg. Total: 455.0 kg (2100 + 2450) 1988 Summer Olympics in the class to 110 kg.
3/21/1981 Snatch 181 kg Middle Heavyweight Lvov 3/21/1981 Snatch 182 kg Middle Heavyweight Lvov 6/20/1981 Snatch 183.5 kg Middle Heavyweight Lignano-Sabbiadoro 6/20/1981 Total 405 kg Middle Heavyweight Lignano-Sabbiadoro 12/21/1981 Clean & Jerk 232.5 kg Sub Heavyweight Donetsk 12/24/1981 Snatch 188 kg Sub Heavyweight Donetsk 12/24/1981 Snatch 192.5 kg Sub Heavyweight Donetsk 12/24/1981 Total 417.5 kg Sub Heavyweight Donetsk 12/24/1981 Total 425 kg Sub Heavyweight Donetsk 5/22/1982 Snatch 193.5 kg Sub Heavyweight Dnipropetrovsk 5/22/1982 Snatch 195 kg Sub Heavyweight Dnipropetrovsk 5/22/1982 Clean & Jerk 234 kg Sub Heavyweight Dnipropetrovsk 5/22/1982 Clean & Jerk 235 kg Sub Heavyweight Dnipropetrovsk 5/22/1982 Total 427.5 kg Sub Heavyweight Dnipropetrovsk 5/22/1982 Total 430 kg Sub Heavyweight Dnipropetrovsk 9/25/1982 Snatch 195.5 kg Sub Heavyweight Ljubljana 11/3/1982 Snatch 195.5 kg Heavyweight Haskovo 3/4/1983 Snatch 200 kg Sub Heavyweight Odessa 3/4/1983 Clean & Jerk 240 kg Sub Heavyweight Odessa 3/4/1983 Total 432.5 kg Sub Heavyweight Odessa 3/4/1983 Total 440 kg Sub Heavyweight Odessa 9/16/1984 Snatch 197.5 kg Heavyweight Varna 9/16/1984 Snatch 200.5 kg Heavyweight Varna 11/15/1986 Snatch 201 kg Heavyweight Sofia 11/15/1986 Clean & Jerk 248 kg Heavyweight Sofia 11/15/1986 Total 445 kg Heavyweight Sofia 11/15/1986 Total 447.5 kg Heavyweight Sofia 5/9/1987 Snatch 202.5 kg Heavyweight Reims 9/13/1987 Snatch 203 kg Heavyweight Ostrava 4/30/1988 Snatch 203.5 kg Heavyweight Cardiff 4/30/1988 Clean & Jerk 250.5 kg Heavyweight Cardiff 4/30/1988 Total 450 kg Heavyweight Cardiff 4/30/1988 Total 452.5 kg Heavyweight Cardiff 9/27/1988 Snatch 205 kg Heavyweight Seoul 9/27/1988 Snatch 210 kg Heavyweight Seoul 9/27/1988 Total 455 kg Heavyweight Seoul.