All Things Gym

Best of Olympic Weightlifting

  • ATG Shirts
  • Patreon
  • ATG Podcast
  • Rep Max Calculator
  • Contact
    • About
Home » Bulgaria » Asen Zlatev 230kg Clean & Jerk

Asen Zlatev 230kg Clean & Jerk

July 26, 2012 By Gregor Winter

Here is a video of Asen Zlatev, 1980 Moscow Olympics Gold medalist in the 75kg.

He later competed in the 82.5 kg.

Career bests:

  • 183kg Snatch @82.5kg 1986 in Melbourne
  • 225kg (WR) Clean & Jerk  @82.5kg in 1986 World Championshipe in Sofia

The following clip is from the 1988 Bulgarian Weightlifting Training Hall.

230kg Clean & Jerk

Update: In the Stefan Botev Clean post reader Matt commented that:

Also he [Abadjiev] said that the weight is incorrect on the video just posted of Asan Zlatev, he said he never did more than 225 during training at that time in Japan in 88. He wanted to but Abadjiev told him it was unnecessary.

And on second look it does look like 3 reds +blus plus a 5kg plate on each side = 220kg.

But still, 220kg at that bodyweight is simply unheard of.

Thanks to Roberto for submitting this.

Filed Under: Bulgaria, clean and jerk, videos, weightlifting

About Gregor Winter

Hi, I run ATG.

Follow me on instagram @gregorwinter (and ATG @atginsta).

Comments

  1. Lasse Carøe Larsen says

    July 26, 2012 at 14:15

    Monster!

  2. faisal says

    July 26, 2012 at 14:57

    haha thats a man rite there love that look after the lift lol

  3. David says

    May 13, 2017 at 10:18

    A more recent video of Asen Zlatev in action: https://youtu.be/Qc6D6I6qZ-E

Support ATG
Support ATG on Patreon The ATG Shirt
ATG Shirts on HookgripNew ATG Script Shirts on Hookgrip All Things Gym Instagram
All Things Gym Patreon
All Things Gym YouTube
All Things Gym Facebook
All Things Gym Twitter
The ATG Hoodie ATG Hoodie on Hookgrip Store

Featured Posts

Oksana Slivenko 200kg x2 Squat

Lu Xiaojun 180kg Snatch

Ilya Ilyin at Home

Tian Tao 245kg x2 Front Squat

Rebeka-Koha-Warm-Up-yt-cover

Rebeka Koha Full Warm Ups 2017 European Junior Championships (98kg Snatch + 115kg Clean & Jerk)

New Romaleos ColorEuropeans Try RogueEurope.eu

Copyright © 2023 · Gregor · All Things Gym