Ian Wilson found some good clips on a Bulgarian history YouTube channel.
It has footage of a young Naum Shalamanov a.k.a. Naim Suleymanoglu.
They are from the 1986 European Championships in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz).
Naim did 145+187.5 for 332.5kg total at 60kg bodyweight. Both were World Record lifts.
Here is the Clean & Jerk
The channel also has Alexander Varbanov’s 212.5kg World Record Clean & Jerk @75kg.
And they also uploaded footage from the 1985 Europeans 82.5kg in Katowice, Poland.
Shows the battle between Asen Zlatev and Zdravko Stoichkov.
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