Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kurlovich (Russian: Александр Николаевич Курлович, English Alternate: Alexander Kurlovich,^[3] 28 July 1961 – 6 April 2018^[1]) was a Soviet weightlifter. He trained at Armed Forces sports society in Grodno.^[1]

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Aleksandr Kurlovich
Born	Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kurlovich (1961-07-28)28 July 1961 Grodno, Soviet Union
Died	6 April 2018(2018-04-06) (aged 56) [1] Grodno, Belarus
Nationality	Soviet Union
Other names	Alexander Kurlovich
Occupation	Olympic weightlifting
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[2]

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Olympic medal record
Men's weightlifting
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	+110 kg
World Weightlifting Championships
	1983 Moscow	+110kg
	1987 Ostrava	+110kg
	1989 Athens	+110kg
	1991 Donaueschingen	+110kg
European Weightlifting Championships
	1983 Moscow	+110kg
	1989 Athens	+110kg
	1990 Aalborg	+110kg
USSR Weightlifting Championships
	1983 Moscow	+110kg
	1984 Minsk	+110kg
	1987 Arkhangelsk	+110kg
	1989 Frunze	+110kg
	1991 Donetsk	+110kg
Representing the  Unified Team
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	+110 kg
Representing  Belarus
Olympic Games
5th	1996 Atlanta	+108kg
World Weightlifting Championships
	1994 Istanbul	+108kg

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In 2006 he was elected member of the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.^[4] He was caught in 1984 entering Canada with $10,000 worth of anabolic steroids that he wanted to sell to fellow weightlifters.

Kurlovich had twelve world records to his name.^[5]

As of 2019, only four men (Antonio Krastev of Bulgaria, Behdad Salimi of Iran, Gor Minasyan of Armenia and Bahrain, and Georgian world-record holder Lasha Talakhadze) have ever snatched more than his 215 kg, only six men (Soviet teammates Sergey Didyk, Anatoly Pisarenko and Leonid Taranenko, Andrei Chemerkin of Russia, Talakhadze of Georgia, and Hossein Rezazadeh of Iran) have ever lifted a clean and jerk of more than his 260 kg, and only Talakhadze, Rezazadeh, and Taranenko have totalled more than the 472.5 kg that Kurlovich lifted to win the 1987 World Championship. (Taranenko won 1987 World Championship)^[6]

• Merited Master of Sport of the USSR (1987)^[7]
• Order of the Badge of Honour
• Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Republic of Belarus (1992)

• Olympic champion (1988 and 1992);
• Senior world champion (1987, 1989, 1991 and 1994);
• Set twelve world records during his career.

• Snatch: 215.0 kg in Athens 1989 World Weightlifting Championships.
• Clean and jerk: 260.0 kg in Ostrava 1987 World Weightlifting Championships.
• Total: 472.5 kg (212.5 + 260.0) 1987 in Ostrava in the class more than 110 kg.^[8]

Kurlovich died on 6 April 2018 in Grodno, Belarus. He was 56.