Arkady Vorobyev, in full Arkady Nikitich Vorobyev, Vorobyev additionally spelled Vorobev, (born October 3, 1924, Mordovo, Tambov oblast, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died December 22, 2012, Moscow, Russia), weightlifter who received two Olympic gold medals and was the primary Soviet light-heavyweight lifter to win the world championship.
While stationed at Odessa within the Soviet military, Vorobyev labored as a deep-sea diver and started weight coaching. As a light-heavyweight lifter on the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, he tried to jerk a world file 170 kg (375 kilos). After controversy over whether or not he can be charged with an official try following an preliminary drop and whether or not he had efficiently lifted the load on a second try, he was in the end awarded a bronze medal.
Vorobyev achieved his best success as a center heavyweight. At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne he received his first gold medal, setting a world file within the press and breaking his personal world file with a elevate of 462.5 kg (1,020 kilos). He broke one other of his personal world data with a complete elevate of 472.5 kg (1,042 kilos) on the 1960 Olympics in Rome, incomes one other gold medal. A ten-time champion of the Soviet Union, he was world champion in 1954–55 and 1957–58.
Vorobyev, a medical physician, later wrote books on weightlifting and coached the Soviet workforce. He was inducted into the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame in 1995.