Vasilijs Stepanovs (3 March,[1][2] 28 May[3] or 12 December 1927[4][5] – 8 April 2011) was a Soviet weightlifter.

He was born in Russia as Vasily Matveyevich Stepanov (Russian: Василий Матвеевич Степанов), but later settled in Latvia, after serving with the Soviet Baltic Fleet there.

He then moved to the light-heavyweight class and won the 1955 European and 1956 Soviet titles.

After the Olympics he progressed to the middle-heavyweight division and set four ratified world records in the press between 1958 and 1962.

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