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  3. James Amos says

    Talented heavyweight in 1995, was tragically killed in a car accident. Extremely sad.

  5. James Amos says

    At the 1988 Europeans in Cardiff (above) he was leading Taranenko, Krastev and Nerlinger in the snatch, but scored no clean and jerk.

  6. James Amos says

    Alexandr Levandovsky recorded a Sinclair of 218.9 and I’m sure had he lived longer would have recorded higher.

    At the Druzhba Cup Meet, on 4th March, 1990, Evgeny Sypko at 130.65kg snatched 216.5kg, the highest competitive snatch in history (and a Sinclair of 222.684).

    But it couldn’t count as a world record as the meet wasn’t officially drug tested.

    Interestingly Levandovsky stood at 6ft 2.8in and Sypko at 6ft 4.8in.

    • TAROGA says

      Does ANYONE have a picture of Sypko ??? Surely the ultimate ‘mystery lifter’. I have a report of his participation in a contest ca. late ’80’s when he was lighter in weight and described as ‘a bony Frankenstein’ ! Another ephemeral Super was Evgeny Popov who succeeded Plachkov in Bulgaria in late ’70’s but never made Moscow.

  7. James Amos says

    I have one picture (black and white) in a book I could forward to Gregor to provide to you if that is agreeable?

    Popov became a succesful powerlifter i believe. He had a comeptition squat and deadlift of 365kg and a bench of 225kg (not in same comp).

    • Gregor says

      That would be cool for the wiki article. Still we need some other sources (which we can cite) for the info on him. There surely are some to be found on Russian sites.