Maksim Agapitov

Maxim Oktyabrinovich Agapitov is a retired Russian weightlifter. He competed internationally between 1992 and 2000 and held the national title in 1993 and 1997 and the world title in 1997. After that he worked as a national coach and weightlifting official. He took up weightlifting aged 10, following his father, who was a weightlifting coach.
Agapitov is an executive member of the International Weightlifting Federation, vice-president of the European Weightlifting Federation and president of the Russian Weightlifting Federation.
In March 2022, Agapitov posted a clip from a Moscow rally at which Vladimir Putin lauded the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.