Alexey Lovchev updated two world records this night and became the strongest man on the planet
“I did it! Friends, thank you to everyone who believed and supported me! Russia is the greatest power, and we are proof of this!”- Alexey Lovchev wrote on his page a few hours after he became the world champion and updated two legendary world records.
World records in the heavyweight category for men are so rare that in last time it happened in the last century (the year 2000 is the last century, right?). Then the colorful Iranian (who isn’t colorful in this weight class?) Hossein Rezazadeh lifted 472 kg (the result for weightlifters is the sum of two attempts - in the snatch and clean and jerk) and won the Sydney Olympics.
Yesterday in Houston, America, that one who seemed eternal record was beaten by a simple Russian guy from Karabanovo, a town at the junction of Moscow and Vladimir regions. So simple that when asked about his main post-sports dream, he always answered - to open a car service center in his city and work on cars.
“I've never lifted this much weight before - I'm stunned. This proves that Russia is the strongest nation. I couldn't have done this without the support of my parents. My father is a coach, it was he who brought me to weightlifting. My mother died in 2012, and I dedicate this victory and these records to her.", — Lovchev was involved in weightlifting from the age of nine, and lifted his first weights in the gym that his father built.
Lovchev's record attempt at 264 kg is an excellent motivational video for those who are used to giving up when things get tough.
Most likely, you haven’t watched this - it’s not customary for us to spend the second hour of Saturday night on weightlifting. That’s why you won’t see how, after a successful approach to 248 kg (the second attempt, which actually secured gold for Lovchev), the coaches told Lovchev who was leaving the platform - let’s go for 64? He didn’t even answer, just nodded his chin. What questions do you have, of course we’ll go...
My friends and I are celebrating the victory of our team!
“When I was little, I often watched Rezazadeh lifting huge weights on TV. He was an example for me, I could never imagine that one day I would surpass his record.", - that night, 26-year-old Lovchev did something he couldn’t believe - he became the strongest man on the planet.
With Minister of Sports VitalyMutkoand my friendAlexanderIvanov
One caveat is worth making here.
Officially, Lovchev now has two world records - the most important one in the combined event and a separate one in the clean and jerk (it also used to belong to Rezazade, but stood a little less - since the 2004 Olympics in Athens). The record in the snatch still remains with another Iranian, Behdad Salimi - Lovchev was three kilograms short of the 214 kg he took four years ago.
But in reality, Lovchev has so far only repeated the best sum in the history of weightlifting, and in the clean and jerk his result is only the third. Why is this so?
The thing is that world records in weightlifting were reset three times - in 1993 and 1998, the International Federation redrew the weight categories, and the countdown of new achievements began from the beginning.
Therefore, all the results that weightlifters suffered before 1998 are probably undeservedly forgotten. Let’s just remember - in 1988, when the super heavyweight category began not with 105 kg, as now, but with 110 kg (is there a fundamental difference in the lower limit of absolute weight?), Leonid Taranenko pushed the barbell at 266 kg (four years earlier 265 kg pushed by Anatoly Pisarenko) and gained a total of 475 kg.
Not a bad benchmark for Lovchev, who in two years after his international debut (bronze at the 2013 World Championships - the first big start in Alexey’s career) added 11 kg in the snatch and 34 kg in the clean and jerk. Then another Russian, Ruslan Albegov, won, just like a year ago in Alma-Ata, where Lovchev “rammed” the jerk, leaving him with no result at all.
“Ruslan and I good relationship. There is no tension and certainly no hostility; we communicate regularly in the hall.”, — let’s save the confrontation between Lovchev and Albegov for the next Olympic year.
“The decision not to take Albegov to Houston is strategic. He and Lovchev were ready to work according to world records and did not want to exhaust them with this confrontation.”, — head coach team Alexander Venkov explained the sudden exclusion of Albegov from the team’s application.
As for Alexey, he could have set a world record in the snatch, but we made a general decision to simply ensure an advantage over his competitors before the clean and jerk. And only when, after two attempts in the clean and jerk, it became clear that Alexey had won gold, he, in agreement with personal trainers And coaching staff the team set a world record. And returned the world's top heavyweight achievement weight category to Russia - after two decades of leadership of Iranian weightlifters.
All world record holders in the heavyweight category in history (the most recent records set are indicated):
Hristo Plachkov (Bulgaria) - 442.5 kg; Vasily Alekseev (USSR) - 445 kg; Anatoly Pisarenko (USSR) - 457.5 kg; Alexander Gunyashev (USSR) - 465 kg; Antonio Krastev (Bulgaria) - 467.5 kg; Alexander Kurlovich (USSR / Belarus) - 472.5 kg; Leonid Taranenko (USSR) - 475 kg; Andrey Chemerkin (Russia) - 462.5 kg (after the results were reset in 1993); Ronnie Weller (Germany) - 465 kg; Hossein Rezazadeh (Iran) - 472.5 kg; Alexey Lovchev (Russia) - 475 kg.
With my coach Sergei Ivanov and two-time Olympic champion, four-time world championAlexanderKurlovich
World Championship
Houston, USA
Men
Over 105 kg
1. Alexey Lovchev (Russia) - 475 kg (211 kg + 264 kg) - world record
2. Lasha Talakhadze (Georgia) - 454 (207 + 247)
Quotes: Inside The Games, WodLoft, All sports
At the end of the 2014 World Weightlifting Championships in Almaty, our website compiled a rating of weightlifting stars.
1. Vasily Alekseev, USSR (1942 - 2011)
The only one in the history of world weightlifting eight-time champion world, winner of two Olympics - Munich (1972) and Montreal (1976). Set 80 world records, 81 USSR records.
“Alekseev is fantastic. He breaks records whenever he wants. He has no problems with this,” the Austrian President of the International Weightlifting Federation Gottfried Schedl admired the Soviet hero.
Vasily Alekseev is the holder of the current world record for the total of three exercises - 645 kg (at present, official competitions in weightlifting triathlon are not held, so Alekseev’s record cannot be repeated or broken.
He opened the era of the “six hundred men”, being the first to conquer a six hundred kilogram peak.
At the 1970 World Championships in the USA, he replaced the main competitor with the American Joseph Dube, who promised to “defeat the communists.” Alekseev lifted a 500-pound barbell, the six thousand American audience stood up and gave the Soviet athlete a standing ovation! They hugged and rejoiced as if their athlete had won!
After leaving the active athletes, Alekseev continued his career as the head coach of the USSR national team. He set another absolute record - with him, not a single member of the team received a single injury, and no one received a zero mark in the competition.
2. Paul Edward Anderson, USA (1932 -1994).
Olympic champion (Melbourne 1956) and world champion (1955). Last on at the moment American who won Olympic gold in weightlifting in the weight category (over 90 kg).
3. Waldemar Bashanovsky, Poland (1935 - 2011)
2-time Olympic champion in lightweight(Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968). 5-time world champion (1961, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969).
4. Kakhi Kakhiashvili, USSR, Greece (1969)
3-time Olympic champion (Barcelona - 1992, Atlanta - 1996, Sydney - 2000), three-time world champion (1995, 1998, 1999).
During the time sports career set 7 world records. The snatch record of 188 kg has been in force since 1999. The record for the total of 412 kg, set at the same time, lasted more than 12 years and was improved by Ilya Ilyin at the Olympic Games in 2012 in London.
5. Tommy Kono, USA (1930)
"The Iron Hawaiian" kept his head down in the lightweight division in the 1950s. Two-time Olympic champion (Helsinki 1952, Melbourne 1956). World champion (1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959). 26 world and 7 Olympic records.
6. Alexander Kurlovich, USSR-Belarus (1961)
2-time Olympic champion (Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992). World champion (1987, 1989, 1991, 1994). Set 12 world records.
7. Halil Mutlu, Türkiye (1973)
3-time Olympic champion (Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004). 5-time world champion (1994, 1998, 1999,2001, 2003).
8. Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria - Türkiye (1967)
The first three-time Olympic champion in the history of weightlifting (Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996), seven-time world champion (1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995 - Turkey, 1985, 1986 - Bulgaria). Set 46 world records.
9. David Rigert, USSR (1947)
Olympic champion (Montreal 1976). 6-time world champion (1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978).
“I come from Northern Kazakhstan,” says David Adamovich in an interview. - At the beginning of the war, a lot of people were evacuated there, like my parents. In 1964, when all restrictions had already been lifted one hundred percent, we returned to our previous location of residence, to Kuban.
10. Yuri Vlasov, USSR-Russia (1935)
Olympic champion (1960), 4-time world champion (1959, 1961-1963).
11. Yuri Vardanyan, USSR-Armenia (1956)
Olympic champion (Moscow 1980). 7-time world champion (1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985). 43-time world record holder.
12. Leonid Zhabotinsky, USSR-Ukraine (1938)
Two-time Olympic champion (Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968). 4-time world champion (1964, 1965, 1966, 1968). Jabotinsky, like Yuri Vlasov, Vasily Alekseev was the idol of Arnold Schwarzenegger. During Jabotinsky’s visit to the United States at the invitation of Schwarzenegger, Arnold told him: “Since childhood, I have been rooting for you. Even during the Tokyo Olympics, although Shemanski and Gubner performed there. Of course, I was worried about them too, but for some reason I wanted you to win.”
1. Max Daton (England) bench pressed a 34 kg barbell 845 times in 1891.
2. Georg Hackenschmidt (Russia) spread his arms horizontally to the sides with 32 kg weights bottom down 5 times in 1899.
3. Emil Voss (Germany) pushed a barbell weighing 110 kg with his right hand, and juggled a 49 kg weight with his left in 1903.
4. Sandow (Germany) performed a bench press with his left arm, lay on his back, stood up while holding a 115 kg barbell in his hand in 1896.
5. Arthur Hennig (Germany) lifted a barbell weighing 154 kg to his chest and performed a bench press right hand in 1902.
6. Ivan Selykh (Russia) performed a bench press with lifting 3 weights of 32 kg each in 1907.
7. Znamensky (Russia) performed a left-arm press of two 32 kg weights stacked on top of each other in 1899.
8. Franz Stähr (Austria) performed a right-arm rack press without bending the body and bending the knees 50 kg 25 times in 1897.
9. Karl Svoboda (Austria) performed a right-arm rack press without bending the body and bending the knees of 101 kg in 1912.
10. Pyotr Krylov (Russia) performed a 32 kg kettlebell press with his left hand in a rack without tilting the body and bending the knees 86 times in 1909.
11. Paris (France) tore an unopened deck of cards in 55 seconds in 1912.
12. John Grün (Germany) broke a horse's shoe in 23 seconds in 1907.
13. Tom Walter Kennedy (USA) performed a deadlift with straightening the legs and back with a core of 36 pounds in 1893.
14. Louis Cyr (Canada) deadlifted a 669 kg ball barbell in 1894.
15. Hermann Gessler (Germany) lay down and stood up with a 250 kg bag of metal on his back in 1912.
16. Hans Beck (Germany) lifted a barrel of beer from the floor without any equipment in 1890.
17. Anton Riha (Czechoslovakia) carried a weight of 854 kg in 1891.
18. Louis Cyr (Canada) lifted a platform weighing 1867 kg from stands with his back in 1892.
19. Louis Cyr (Canada) lifted a ball bar with his right hand to his knees 440 kg in 1892.
20. Sandow (Germany) did a back somersault while holding a 1.5 pound weight in each hand in 1891.
21. Paul Anderson (USA) performed a squat with a barbell on his shoulders weighing 425 kg in 1955.
22. Paul Anderson (USA) performed a half squat with a carriage ramp weighing 900 kg in 1955.
23. Ludwig Chaplinsky (Russia) jumped over the dining table with a ram weighing 40 kg in his hands in 1911.
24. Nikolai Vakhturov (Russia) threw a 32 kg weight over a railway carriage in 1912.
25. Willi Kutter (Germany) performed a pull-up on the crossbar overhand grip right hand at own weight 95 kg 12 times in 1900.
26. Ivan Zaikin (Russia) lifted a 40-bucket barrel of water on his back and carried it across the stage in 1913.
27. Sergei Eliseev (Russia) held a 61 kg weight in a horizontal position with his right hand in 1903.
28. Pyotr Yankovsky (Russia) performed a bench press with a 3-pound weight, holding it in the palm of his hand and sitting on the floor in 1905.
29. Henri Stérnon (France) carried two cannons weighing 456 kg on his back in 1876.
30. Grigory Kashcheev (Russia) suffered on his back live horse in 1908.
31. Karl Svoboda (Austria) performed a two-arm rack press without bending the body and bending the knees of 165 kg with a body weight of 70 kg in 1911.
32. Yuri Vlasov (USSR) performed a straight bench press of 185 kg with his own weight of 135 kg in 1967.
33. Oskar Wahlund (Sweden) lifted a 2105 kg load with his back using straps from a platform in 1912.
At a city festival in Kholmsk, weightlifter Maxim Sheiko exceeded the result by 18 kg (!) Olympic champion London Games and broke the world record in clean and jerk.At a city festival in Kholmsk, weightlifter Maxim Sheiko exceeded the result of the Olympic champion of the London Games by 18 kg (!) and broke the world record in the clean and jerk.
PERSONAL MATTER
What happened in Kholmsk, Sakhalin, is beyond my comprehension. 24-year-old Maxim Sheiko with a result of 430 kg in the combined event, he would easily win the recent Olympic Games. Despite the fact that he missed the Games without making it into the national team. Gone Khadzhimurat Akkaev And Dmitry Klokov who ultimately did not perform due to injuries...
- Maxim, what was that?– yesterday our correspondent got through to the troublemaker.
“Nothing special,” the weightlifter answered calmly, his two-year-old daughter Ariana wailing in the background. “I was ready for this weight.” But, to be honest, I didn’t want information about my results to come out until recently. After all, there is a lot of competition in my weight category.
- That's understandable. But why break a world record at a small town festival?
– The original idea was to lift the barbell with a small weight. So, to popularize the sport. But I'm in good shape now. He suggested introducing an element of competition - making three attempts in the snatch, three in the clean and jerk, and trying to lift a decent weight. That's it.
- That's all?! You would have won the Olympics with a margin!
“Believe me, I’m not the only one who has such thoughts.” I repeat, we all understood perfectly well that we had to go to the Games Akkaev And Klokov. By and large, neither I nor the other guys applied for a trip to London. Who could have known that this would happen?
– At this festival, no one jumped 2.40 in height?
- You shouldn't laugh. The City Day celebration turned out great. Just imagine - an open stadium, about 500 spectators. There is a special stage where the artists perform, and next to it there is a platform where I lift the barbell. The heat is 30 degrees, there is wind, people support you... This is unusual, because we perform in silence. By the way, I broke my personal record by 9 kilograms.
– Your record is now being actively discussed on the Internet. One of the popular versions is doping. They say that you were allegedly not sent to the Olympics so as not to get caught in a scandal.
- This is nonsense! I was weaker than my competitors. And doping... There are too many evil tongues. You can’t explain to everyone that we take doping tests not only at competitions, but at any other time.
– Your world record in the clean and jerk of 239 kg, of course, will not be registered. When can we expect the official one?
– My goal is the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
– And what weight will you need to take for a gold medal in Brazil?
– 435 kilograms. I think that's enough.
This is only 5 kg more than Maxim took in Kholmsk...
BY THE WAY. SHEIKO HAS SERVED A 2-YEAR DISQUALIFICATION
In 2010, a doping test taken from Maxima Sheiko after the Russian Championship, it turned out to be positive. An anabolic steroid, methandrostenolone, was found in the athlete’s blood.
The 22-year-old Russian was disqualified for two years, after which he returned to big sport.
RUSSIAN TEAM HEAD COACH DAVID RIGERT: WE WILL PREPARE MAXIM FOR THE 2016 OLYMPICS
Phenomenal performance Maxima Sheiko on Sakhalin did not surprise the head coach of the Russian men's team at all David Rigert.
“In fact, there is nothing supernatural in this result,” noted Rigert. – Maxim trained for this weight. And in general, he was a candidate for the Russian Olympic team.
- Why wasn’t he taken to the Games?
– We determined the composition after the World Cup. And then 105 kg is not weight Sheiko. Why immediately throw him into the inferno? We will prepare the guy for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
- But it would be in London gold medal…
“Now, in hindsight, everyone is strong.” But who knew that everything would turn out like this? Nobody thought that some would lift and others wouldn’t lift the weight. It’s clear, now if you know the results of London, then you can say that several of our guys would fight for highest award. But before the Games they could hardly count on medals.
– There are several versions of why Akkaev and Klokov did not ultimately compete at the Olympics. What really happened?
– As for Akkaeva, then the situation is as follows: an incorrect diagnosis was made in Moscow. They said it was a small hernia, everything would be fine. But already in London his legs began to fail. The situation was very serious, we had to operate directly in the UK, thanks to our ambassador who helped in this situation.
As for Klokova, then we'll figure it out. It seemed like something happened to his knee, although he had never had any problems with his knees before. Although I understand that there is a first time for everything.
– Was it no longer possible to replace one of them with the same Sheiko?
- No. Final composition it was necessary to announce July 26 from 14 to 16 hours. On the 28th we learned about Klokova, and on August 2 they operated Akkaeva…
FROM THE HISTORY OF THE ISSUE. WHY DID SHEIKO NOT GO TO THE OLYMPICS
The composition of the participants of the Russian team in the category up to 105 kg was determined based on the results of the 2011 World Championships in Paris.
Then Maxim Sheiko has not yet competed in this category (his main category is up to 94 kg). At the same time Khadzhimurat Akkaev won the world championship, and Dmitry Klokov won silver. And in the remaining time before the Games, both athletes proved that they are the strongest weightlifters in the country in their category.
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The strongest men are engaged. They are able to lift incredible weights that no one else can even budge.
Every year more and more new records are set, but there are also some that are very difficult and no one can break them for decades. Let's look at the most incredible world records.
The strongest
"Most strong man on the planet” - that’s what it was called at one time. US athlete Paul Anderson, who was involved in weightlifting and competed more than 50 years ago, still has unbroken records in strength exercises.
In Las Vegas, he managed to squat 526 kg three times in a row. He did this every day for several weeks and said that this weight was his normal working weight, and not his maximum. He did this without any athletic equipment, and barefoot. For example, the modern record was set by Doni Thompson, who squatted 590 kg. And in 1975, Don Reinhodt set a record in the squat without equipment with a weight of 423.5 kg - this record has not yet been broken by anyone.
Another amazing achievement Anderson achieved was lifting weights with one right hand. He lifted 136 kg 11 times. He did such exercises with special dumbbells.
It is possible to tear off almost three tons of weight!
He set one of the most incredible world records in lifting weights from racks. Anderson was able to lift 2844 kg of weight, which exceeded the records set before him by almost a ton.
Also incredible world records in weightlifting Andy Bolton, an English weightlifter, also delivered. He set three world records: a squat with a weight of 550.5 kg, deadlift- 457.5 kg, total triathlon - 1273 kg. Andy became the first man on the planet to deadlift more than 453.6 kg (1,000 lbs).
In the deadlift, it is necessary to note his successes. In the spring of 2011, in the equipment, he set a world record in weightlifting and lifted a weight of 460 kg at the classic tournament.
As for that, one cannot fail to mention the achievement of the American athlete Ryan Kennealy. Without equipment, he bench presses 297 kg. Many? In equipment in 2008, Ryan bench pressed 478.6 kg! So far, no one can break this world record in weightlifting.
Iran ahead
In an exercise such as the snatch, in the open weight category, world weightlifting records belong only to athletes from Iran. And it is noteworthy that the last two belong to a teacher and his student. So, in 2003, Hossein Reza Zadeh set a world record by making a snatch with a barbell weight of 213 kg. And in 2011, his student Bedhad Salimi surpassed his teacher and managed to make a snatch at the National Tournament, which was held in Iran, with a weight of 214 kg. At the same time, Hossein’s world weightlifting record in the clean and jerk remained unbroken - no one managed to lift a weight greater than 263 kg.
Despite the development of training systems, as well as sports supplements which weightlifters use, no one has yet been able to surpass the result of the Soviet athlete who in 1988 achieved a weight in the clean and jerk of 266 kg. Then in the double event he gained 475 kg.
Also unsurpassed is the result of the Turkish athlete N. Suleymanoglu, who in the same 1988 was able to push a barbell weighing 190 kilograms, thereby setting a new world record in weightlifting. Doesn't seem like much? Your opinion will change when you find out in what category the athlete competed then - up to 60 kg. That is, the Turk was able to lift a weight that was more than three times his own!
Weights are lighter than feathers to them
Let’s touch on a little bit and the World Champion in this sport, Pavel Lesnykh, who lives in the Altai Territory, never tires of setting new and new records. In 2007, Pavel set a world record by pushing a 36 kilogram weight 1030 times. He finished it in exactly an hour and a half.
And this is truly a monumental achievement, since the previous record, which was set by Vyacheslav Khoronenko, the “Belarusian King of Kettlebells,” was 1020 jerks with a weight of 32 kilograms.
In addition, Pavel managed to push a weight weighing 41 kg 209 times, as well as hold a weight weighing 52 kg for 30 minutes, thereby setting new world weightlifting records.
Another Russian athlete, Ivan Denisov, managed to set no fewer world records. multiple champion Russia and the world kettlebell lifting. He set a world record for the longest cycle. Pushing a 32-kilogram weight in 2007, he managed to achieve a result of 109 points. And in 2005, Ivan was able to score 387 points in the double event, which consists of the clean and jerk and snatch. At the same time, he scored 175 points in the clean and jerk, and 220 points in the snatch.
What's next?
Many experts say that new world records in weightlifting, which are set by athletes, are less and less different from those already set. And this is even despite new methods, nutrition and funding for athletes. All more people They attribute this to the fact that they are simply already close to the possibilities physical strength human body, and therefore there can no longer be large gaps in records. Whether this is true or not, only time will help figure it out. As they say, “we’ll wait and see.”
