Fran Rothwell uploaded a video of the top three lifters from the 1994 World Weightlifting Championships 108 kg. A bunch of nice lifts. Snatch Timur Taymazov 200.0 kg WR Artur Akoev 195.0 kg Nicu Vlad 192.5 kg Clean & Jerk Timur Taymazov 235.5 kg WR Nicu Vlad 230.0 kg Artur Akoev 225.0 kg Total Timur Taymazov 435.0 kg WR Nicu […]
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 […]