2 hryven – Leonid Zhabotinsky

Leonid Ivanovych Zhabotynsky (28 January 1938 – 14 January 2016) was a Soviet weightlifter who set 19 world records in the superheavyweight class, and won gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games. Zhabotynsky debuted at the Ukrainian SSR Championship in 1957, where he earned a bronze medal. Later that year, Zhabotynsky entered the Kharkiv Pedagogical Institute and studied there until 1964. Zhabotynsky was the flag bearer for the Soviet Union during the opening ceremonies of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, carrying the Soviet flag single-handed when the team marched in, when all the other flag bearers used two hands.[3] Between 1963 and 1974 Zhabotynsky set 19 world records in the superheavyweight class and won gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics.[5][3] He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1965 and 1991. Source: wiki