Answer the following question: Vladimir Iosifovich Kaplunov (Russian: born March 2 1933) is a former Russian weightlifter weightlifter World champion and Olympic medalist who competed for the Soviet Union. He became World champion in the Lightweight class in 1962 and received a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete