Check out Pyrros Dimas‘ 213kg gold medal Clean and Jerk at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. That was a world record that lasted for just a couple of minutes due to Marc Huster’s 213.5kg. That head bang! Here is Marc Huster’s 213.5kg
Raw Powerlifting Records Graph
Found some interesting Graphs of Raw Powerlifting Records. (via) Notes: Not (necessarily drug tested, raw only (no knee wraps), men superheavyweight estimated at 350 lb.1600-2000 lg women’s deadlifts all the same person. Men’s 123 lb squat record is a little person (Andrzej Stanaszek). Source: http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/records
2002 World Weightlifting Championships +105
Meanwhile here is a look back at the 2002 World Weightlifting Championships Snatch – Hossein Rezazadeh wins it with 210kgClean and Jerk with Hossein Rezazadeh’s 263 kg World Record (at 40 min)
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
Liao Hui 198kg World Record Clean and Jerk
Liao Hui 69kg World record 198kg Clean and Jerk at the 2010 World Weightlifting Championships, Antalya. undefined
Behdad Salimi Unofficial 214kg Snatch
World Record Wednesdays Behdad Salimi‘s Unofficial Snatch World Record 214kg I read somewhere that he even did 215kg
Biggest Snatches in Weightlifting History
Biggest competition snatches since 1987 (via) ATHLETE NAT. B/WEIGHT SNATCH DATE 1.Behdad Salimi* IRN 168 217.0 10.06.11 1. Eugene Sypko** SOV 110 + 216.5 03.04.90 2. Antonio Krastev BUL 172.50 216.0 09.13.87 3. Alexander Kurlovich SOV 134.45 215.0 09.23.89 4. Behdad Salimi IRN 168.22 214.0 11.13.11 5. Hossein Rezazade IRN 161.60 213.0 09.14.03 6. Alexander Gunyashev RUS 110+ 212.5 07.15.88 […]
171 kg Snatch "Too Light!" for Lu Yong
Lu Yong (19 at the time) at the 2005 World Weightlifting Championships At 2:23 snatching 171 kg, he yells “it’s too light!” 太轻啦. Apparently true, because in his third attempt he snatched 175kg. With 210kg in his Clean and Jerk he totaled 385kg. (New Junior Total World Record) Learn More about Chinese Weightlifting here. As the […]
Lu Xiaojun’s 174 kg Snatch World Record
While we are talking about Chinese Weightlifting Methods…. Here is Lu Xiaojun (77kg weight class) setting world records in the 2009 World Weightlifting Championships. 174kg Snatch (WR)+ 204 kg Clean and Jerk (w/ Power Jerk)= for a total of 378 kg (WR) Fantastic lifts.