IN BRIEF : Soviets Elect Olympian Weightlifter

MOSCOW — An Olympic weightlifting champion won a seat in the new Soviet parliament today as Moscow finished choosing its more than 20 deputies just a week before the first session.

Weightlifter Yuri Vlasov, who won a gold medal in the super heavyweight class in the 1960 games in Rome, won a run-off election with Viktor Shinkaretsky in Moscow’s Lyublinsky district with 66.75% of the vote, according to statistics published by the official daily Vechernyaya Moskva.