Viktor Grigorevich Kurentsov (Russian: Виктор Григорьевич Куренцов, born 15 April 1941) is a retired Soviet middleweight weightlifter. He competed at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won a silver and a gold medal, respectively.Born in Belarus, Kurentsov started training in weightlifting aged 18, while serving in the Soviet Army in the Russian Far East.