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Velichko Cholakov
Velichko Cholakov (b. January 12 1982 in Smolyan) is a Bulgarian weightlifter. He competed in the over 105 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, his first Olympics, winning an Olympic bronze medal. After missing two clean and jerk attempts at 245 kg, he managed to lift a total of 447.5 kg, placing him behind Latvia's Viktors Skerbatins and Iran's Hossein Reza Zadeh.
Velichko won the European weightlifting title in Kiev, Ukraine in 2004, and finished second at the World championship in Vancouver in 2003. In 2002, he won gold medals at both the European and World Youth Weightlifting championships.
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