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Yuri Zakharevich 210kg / 245kg Seoul 1988 Olympics

March 14, 2012 By Gregor Winter

Big lifts by Yuri Zakharevich from the 1988 Seoul Olympics. 210kg Snatch 245kg Clean & Jerk Update: Here is the entire +110kg Video

Filed Under: big lifts, clean and jerk, great lifters, great lifts, olympics, Russia, videos, weightlifting, world records

Vasily Alekseyev 255kg Clean and Jerk, 1976 in Montreal

November 8, 2011 By Gregor Winter

An iconic clip of Vasily Alekseyev Clean and Jerking 255kg at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal

Filed Under: big lifts, clean and jerk, great lifters, history, Vasily Alekseyev, weightlifting

Kakhi Kakhiashvili 235kg Clean and Jerk

November 1, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Here’s a big lift from the fastest man under the bar: Kakhi Kakhiashvili 235kg Clean and Jerk

Filed Under: big lifts, clean and jerk, great lifters, great lifts, Kakhi Kakhiashvili, weightlifting

Shi Zhiyong 153 kg Snatch World Record

October 19, 2011 By Gregor Winter

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

Filed Under: big lifts, china, great lifters, great lifts, Shi Zhiyong, videos, weightlifting, world records

Nicu Vlad, Attitude, Discipline and Mental Focus

October 8, 2011 By Gregor Winter

I was reading this interesting article from 2008 by Matt Foreman titled Lessons from Romania. It’s about his three weeks in the summer of 1990 training with Romanian weightlifting legend Nicu Vlad.He is said to be the “most technical weightlifter of all time”. Among his accomplishments is the 200.5 kg snatch world record in the […]

Filed Under: clean and jerk, great lifters, Heavy Metal in Melbourne, history, ironmind, Nicu Vlad, power snatch, rdl, snatch, Stefan Botev, videos, weightlifting

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