He competed at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won a silver and a gold medal, respectively.

[1] Born in Tukhinka, Syanno District, Vitebsk Region, then part of the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union, Kurentsov started training in weightlifting aged 18, while serving in the Soviet Army in the Russian Far East.

[2] After ending his weightlifting career Kurentsov continued to serve in the Soviet Army, retiring in 1990 as a colonel.

Between 1993 and 1998 he worked at the Russian embassy in Italy and later at the international relations office at the Odintsovo district government.

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