Big lifts by Yuri Zakharevich from the 1988 Seoul Olympics. 210kg Snatch 245kg Clean & Jerk Update: Here is the entire +110kg Video
Vasily Alekseyev 255kg Clean and Jerk, 1976 in Montreal
An iconic clip of Vasily Alekseyev Clean and Jerking 255kg at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal
Kakhi Kakhiashvili 235kg Clean and Jerk
Here’s a big lift from the fastest man under the bar: Kakhi Kakhiashvili 235kg Clean and Jerk
Shi Zhiyong 153 kg Snatch World Record
This week in World Record Wednesdays: Chinese lifter Shi Zhiyong (62kg body weight class) 153 kg Snatch at the 2002 World Uni Championships, Izmir. Update 21.09.2014: Kim Un-Guk from North Korea broke the Record with 154kg and a 165kg C&J
Nicu Vlad, Attitude, Discipline and Mental Focus
I was reading this interesting article from 2008 by Matt Foreman titled Lessons from Romania. It’s about his three weeks in the summer of 1990 training with Romanian weightlifting legend Nicu Vlad.He is said to be the “most technical weightlifter of all time”. Among his accomplishments is the 200.5 kg snatch world record in the […]