Please answer the following question: Facts: - sport: weightlifting - height: 1.72 m ftin on - caption: rudolf plyukfelder at the 1964 olympics - club: trud shakhty rostov - birth date: yes 6 september 1928 - weight: 82.5 kg lb on - image: rudolf plyukfelder 1964.jpg - birth place: novoorlovka , donetsk oblast , ukraine Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of rudolf plyukfelder .
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rudolf vladimirovich plyukfelder -lrb- , born 6 september 1928 -rrb- is a retired soviet weightlifter and weightlifting coach .as a competitor he won world titles in 1959 and 1961 and an olympic gold medal in 1964 .as a coach he prepared a series of olympic champions including aleksey vakhonin , vasily alekseyev , david rigert , nikolay kolesnikov , aleksandr voronin and viktor tregubov .plyukfelder was born in ukraine to a german family .when germany invaded the soviet union in 1941 , his father and older brother were executed .the rest of the family was sent to a labor camp in siberia , where plyukfelder started to work at a coal mine at the age of 14 .as a hobby he tried track and field athletics and wrestling , in which he won the regional championships in 1948 -- 49 .he changed to weightlifting only in 1950 when he was already 22 .until 1962 , when he moved to rostov oblast , he trained on his own , as there was no weightlifting coach in his area , yet he became the world 's best light-heavyweight competitor , winning world titles in 1959 and 1961 , european titles in in 1959 -- 61 , and an olympic gold in 1964 .he also set eight official world records in 1969 -- 1961 : one in the press , five in the snatch , and two in the total .while competing , plyukfelder coached some of his teammates , such as aleksey vakhonin whom he made an olympic champion from scratch .he retired shortly after the 1964 olympics and had a long and successful career as a coach in shakhty , which he made a major soviet weightlifting school .in the early 1990s he immigrated to kassel , germany .