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Home » videos » Saeid Alihosseini Back after 8 Year Ban with 210kg Snatch + 253kg Clean & Jerk

Saeid Alihosseini Back after 8 Year Ban with 210kg Snatch + 253kg Clean & Jerk

October 24, 2017 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in Iran …

29 year old Saeid Alihosseini is back lifting big weights.

While at a training camp with the national team he snatched 210kg and clean and jerked 250kg.

After originally being banned for life for failing two doping test, his penalty was changed to a 12 year suspension.

And it seems his suspension has been further reduced to 8 years (even though IWF still lists it at 12 years on the sanctioned athletes page). Anybody know what’s up with that?

Anyway I heard the 8 year thing mentioned a while ago and now the Iranian press also seems to be on board with it. If it is 8 years, his ban ends October 24, 2017. So it seems like is on track to compete at worlds 2017.

Saeid Alihosseini 210kg Snatch

@saeid.alihosseini 210 kg Snatch

A post shared by Iranian Weightlifting (@iranian_weightlifting) on Oct 25, 2017 at 9:16am PDT

@saeid.alihosseini 253 kg C&J

A post shared by Iranian Weightlifting (@iranian_weightlifting) on Oct 25, 2017 at 8:51am PDT

He still holds all junior world records:

  • 206kg Snatch
  • 245kg Clean & Jerk (Simon recently came close to breaking the record)
  • 451kg Total

which were all set at the 2008 Asian Junior Championships in Jeonju, South Korea.

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Comments

  1. PJ says

    October 24, 2017 at 01:23

    Well the Iranian weightlifting federation received a letter from IWF confirming this , he is eligible to compete from 24 October 2017. actually he didn’t train full time this year since he was working on his PhD ! this is the first news/video coming out of his training records (probably the first time he is trying big weights) and I’m quite surprised with the numbers, he is already surpassed Salimi to be #1 in Iran !

  2. Craig says

    October 24, 2017 at 04:19

    probably just a matter of time before it becomes a lifetime ban anyway.

  3. Siasookhteh says

    October 24, 2017 at 05:01

    IRIWF never disclosed that letter.
    I dont know really why this matter still is outstanding. It is about a year.

    Back in 2008 or 2009 he was the only man who passed 270kg. No video unfortunately.

  4. Jerker Karlsson says

    October 24, 2017 at 09:42

    Well, it would be great if he actually showed up in Anaheim. I’d like to see him lift. These two lifts looked rather easy.

  5. grobpote says

    October 24, 2017 at 20:36

    This guy looks beautiful! That’s what you expect from a superheavy plus he has been banned so he didn’t wear himself out in the last few years. Very exciting to watch!

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