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Shi Zhiyong 163kg Snatch + 197kg Clean & Jerk Unofficial World Record Total

April 20, 2018 By Gregor Winter 4 Comments

Meanwhile in China … This performance deserved its own post. 24 year old Olympic champion, Shi Zhiyong (69kg) snatching 163kg and clean & jerking 197kg! This is an unofficial world record total of 360kg, beating Liao Hui’s 359kg total from 2014 worlds. 69kg Shi Zhiyong 163kg Snatch + 197kg Squat Jerk

Lasha Talakhadze 0-220kg Snatch World Record Warm Up 2017 World Championships

December 12, 2017 By Gregor Winter 5 Comments

Here is Lasha Talakhadze’s 0-220kg Snatch World Record warm-up video. Lasha Stats (December 2017): 24 years old 1.97 m tall 166kg bodyweight (up 8kg from his previous 217kg WR) His Attempts:

Lasha Talakhadze 220kg Snatch World Record

December 10, 2017 By Gregor Winter 4 Comments

While I am working on his 0-220kg warm up video, here is Lasha Talakhadze’s 220kg snatch world record from the 2017 world championships. A 3kg improvement over his previous record from Europeans 2017. Update: Here is the 0-220kg Warm Up Video. More Lasha: Lasha’s 217kg Snatch World Record from Europeans 2017 Lasha’s 0-217kg Snatch Warm […]

Kuo Hsing-Chun 142kg Clean and Jerk World Record at 58kg

August 21, 2017 By Gregor Winter 3 Comments

Meanwhile in Taipei at the 2017 Universiade … Kuo Hsing-Chun (58kg, Taiwan) clean and jerks 142kg for a new world record! More: Watch Kuo in Training before Worlds 2015. A post shared by All Things Gym (@atginsta) on Aug 21, 2017 at 6:06am PDT Slow Motion @kuo_hsing_chun (58kg, @hkgrptaipei) clean and jerking a senior World […]

Lasha Talakhadze 0 – 217kg Snatch World Record Warm Up

April 20, 2017 By Gregor Winter 4 Comments

After you saw Lasha Talakhadze’s monumental 217kg Snatch World Record, here are all his warm up lifts leading up to the WR. More: Here is his 0 – 250kg Clean & Jerk Warm Up! His attempts:

Lasha Talakhadze 217kg Snatch World Record 2017 European Weightlifting Championships

April 8, 2017 By Gregor Winter 14 Comments

Europeans 2017 finished with a bang! 23 year old Lasha Talakhadze (158.1kg, Georgia) set a new all time snatch world record of 217kg! He went 203, 210, 217kg to surpass Behdad Salimi’s 216kg record set at the 2016 Olympic games. Update: Here is Lasha’s last heavy training session before competing. 217kg Snatch World Record Video […]

Lu Xiaojun 177kg Snatch World Record 2016 Olympic Games Super Slow Motion!

January 16, 2017 By Gregor Winter 24 Comments

Meanwhile in Rio … That has to be one of the craziest weightlifting sessions ever, with this being one of the best lifts ever! 31 year old Lu Xiaojun snatches 177kg at 77kg! 100kg Over bodyweight! Update 16.01.2017: 170, 175, 177kg Snatch Comparison!

Yeison Lopez 160kg Snatch + 191kg Clean and Jerk Youth World Records

November 3, 2016 By Gregor Winter Leave a Comment

Meanwhile at the 2016 Youth World Championships more lifting prodigies break their own world records… This time Yeison Lopez (77kg, Colombia) smashes his own 156kg youth snatch world record by 1kg on his second attempt, then breaks it again with 160kg on his final attempt. Yeison looked completely unfazed when setting up to break them, […]

Clarence Cummings 182kg Clean and Jerk Youth World Record

October 22, 2016 By Gregor Winter 2 Comments

Meanwhile at the 2016 Youth World Championships… Clarence Cummings (69kg, USA) just broke his own youth world record in the clean and jerk by 2kg and tied his total world record. He also gained 3 new American records in the Clean and Jerk, followed by 3 gold Youth Championship medals. He went 135/182/317, skipping his […]