IN BRIEF : Soviets Elect Olympian Weightlifter
<i> From Times wire service</i> s
MOSCOW —
An Olympic weightlifting champion won a seat in the new Soviet parliament today as Moscow finished choosing its more than 20 deputies just a week before the first session.
Weightlifter Yuri Vlasov, who won a gold medal in the super heavyweight class in the 1960 games in Rome, won a run-off election with Viktor Shinkaretsky in Moscow’s Lyublinsky district with 66.75% of the vote, according to statistics published by the official daily Vechernyaya Moskva.
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