Blast from the Past …
It’s like there is a natural law, à la “For every current world record there was a Bulgarian lifting more at lighter bodyweight”.
After I posted the 200kg Clean & Jerk attempt at 69kg by Liao Hui, reader Jasha shared this gem.
Angel Genchev (Guenchev) with a Triple Bodyweight Clean & Jerk. 202.5 at 67.5kg from the 1988 Olympics.
Oh, and he also snatched 160kg which was world record too. This originally won him the weight class. Later he was disqualified for testing positive for Furosemide.
Frank Rothwell has a longer video with all his other attempts.
Three times bodyweight at 67,5 kg, must be the heaviest lifter ever to do that right?
A shame the Bulgarian team withdrew before Zlatev and Botev were up, would have loved to see them go at it.
Naim did the best Sinclair points ever at the same olympics, but his body proportions were just so perfect for lifting that I, personally, am more impressed with the likes of Genchev, Zlatev and Vardanian.
In the same vein, would he be the lightest to ever CJ 200+? Pardon my ignorance in regards to weightlifting history… if this were powerlifting, I’d be able to tell you.
Not the first. At the same weight, Alexander Varbanov did 200 in 1984 at Friendship-84 (aka Real Weightlifting Olympics) and Mikhail Petrov did 200.5 at the 1987 WWC (4th attempt, not counted as total).
Thanks!
If I ever do anything with triple bodyweight I’m growing a stache.
If we’re on the subject of forgotten lifts…has anyone ever seen a video of Fedail Guler’s 360@70 total from the 1995 Europeans?
Some sites list him with 157.5+192.5=350 instead ofa 160+200=360. AFAIK 4th attempts were abolished in 1989, so not sure what happened there.
Right, I’m just going off of Arthur Chidlovski’s website. Never heard anyone talk about it.
How does that lift get a red light? There’s not even anything vaguely questionable there.
One of the judges was Soviet, I believe.
”For every current world record there was a Bulgarian lifting more at lighter bodyweight”. I would add a disclaimer to it which goes something like:
“with help from chemical scientists”.
It is a bit unfair not to do so specially to the current athletes with stringent testing commonplace now. It is not a level playing field. Just my opinion.
Dude, the Chinese guy got busted for steroids as well. I don’t know about you, my friend, but I’m certainly having a hard time believing that modern lifters don’t use drugs. That’s just the unfortunate truth.
I suppose you mean Liao Hui, the Chinese lifter…Well I certainly hope that with stringent testing the foul players are caught, like this Chinese guy. And their ‘records’ removed.
Get real.
So you’re just going to ignore Albegov doing 255 clean and jerk? And Liao Hui re breaking the record he broke while on steroids? You mean its possible to break a record on steroids then lift exactly the same without? What about Ilyin’s world record? He broke a 13 year old record set by a lifter who’s been banned. IWF also release testibg stats and he wasn’t tested at all in 2012 before the games
http://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/01/List_Of_Tested_Competitors_2012_Men.pdf
Ilyin was tested four times OOC from Feb to June 2012.
I have no illusions concerning any elite lifter being clean, but let’s stick with the facts.