Valeriy Dvoynikov
Valeriy Vasylovych Dvoynikov is a Ukrainian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
In 1976 he won the silver medal in the middleweight.
He was also vice world champion in Vienna and 4 times European champion.
Isao Inokuma said that "Among the foreign judoists with brilliant shin-gi-tai are the Soviet Union's Nevzorov, the victor in the light-middleweight class in the Montreal Olympics, Dvoinikov of the Soviet Union, who was runner-up in the middleweight division at the same Olympics, and Lorentz of East Germany, who won the 95-kilograms-and-under class in the Jigoro Kano Cup International Judo Tournament held in Tokyo in 1978".
He is also a co-founder in 2016 with his son, a politologue and poet Valery Dvoinikov, of the Peter the Great's International Foundation working for the cultural reconciliation between Europe and Russia.