Blast from the past …
This one is from the 1984 Friendship Cup.
Stefan Topurov, the first man who clean & jerked triple bodyweight in competition, with a 185kg C&J.
Thanks to Chris for sending this in. Also check out the other vids on his channel (like 211kg C&J at 75).
Stefan Topurov (Bulgaria) was the first man in the history of Olympic weightlifting to lift 3 times bodyweight. It happend at the WC-1983 in Moscow where Topurov cj’d 180 kg in the 60 kg weightclass. Later he also liffted 182.5 and 185 kg at the Druzhba Cup in Varna Bulgaria.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=361130620638392&set=vb.100002243709134&type=3&theater
http://www.chidlovski.net/liftup/a_club_3xbwt.asp
If I could choose only one competition to watch, this (84 friendship) would be the one. We could see Vardanian, Suleymanoglu, Pisarenko, Taranenko, Blagoy, Zakahrevich and others in the same plataform.
World records broken at the 1984 friendship cup.
Bantamweight – Clean & Jerk Naim Suleimanov Bulgaria 170.5 kg
Featherweight – Snatch Stefan Topurov Bulgaria 185 kg
Featherweight – Total Stefan Topurov Bulgaria 322.5 kg
Lightweight – Clean & Jerk Aleksandar Varbanov Bulgaria 200 kg
Middleweight – Clean & Jerk Zdravko Stoichkov Bulgaria 211 kg
Middleweight – Total Zdravko Stoichkov Bulgaria 377.5 kg
Light-heavyweight – Snatch Yurik Vardanyan Soviet Union 182.5 kg
Light-heavyweight – Clean & Jerk Yurik Vardanyan Soviet Union 225 kg
Light-heavyweight – Total Yurik Vardanyan Soviet Union 405 kg
Middle-heavyweight – Clean & Jerk Viktor Solodov Soviet Union 233 kg
Middle-heavyweight – Total Viktor Solodov Soviet Union 422.5 kg
First-heavyweight – Clean & Jerk Pavel Kuznetsov Soviet Union 241.5 kg
Heavyweight – Snatch Yury Zakharevitch Soviet Union 200.5 kg
Heavyweight – Total Leonid Taranenko Soviet Union 442.5 kg
Super heavyweight – Clean & Jerk Anatoly Pisarenko Soviet Union 265 kg
Super heavyweight – Total Anatoly Pisarenko Soviet Union 465 kg
Crazy!
Actually Stoichkov’s 210 was a WR, then Pashov beat it with 201.5, then Stoichkov reclaimed the WR with the 211. Very brief WR’s———–were nevertheless, WR’s. Stoichkov’s 210 really had him looking good in that attempt, for a 220!
Just fabulous!
Hey gregor, can you upload more Suleimanoglu and Halil Mutlu videos?
I don’t have videos of him that I could upload. I posted many about them though
https://allthingsgym.com/category/naim-suleymanoglu/
https://allthingsgym.com/category/halil-mutlu/