Grigory Novak - Grigory Irmovich Novak (Russian: March 5 1919 July 10 1980) was a Ukrainian weightlifter world champion and Olympic medalist who competed for the Soviet Union. He was Jewish and was born in Chernobyl Ukrainian SSR.Novak became world champion in 1946. In 1947 he won the world light heavyweight championships. He received a silver medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.In his career he set 56 world weightlifting records. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
The answer to this question is:
Athlete