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 cheered for me! Russia is the greatest power, and we are proof of this!”- Aleksey 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 back in the last century (the year 2000 is the last century, right?). Then the colorful Iranian (and who is not colorful in this weight?) Hossein Rezazade lifted 472 kg (the result for weightlifters consists of the sum of two attempts - in the snatch and clean and jerk) and won the Sydney Olympics.
Yesterday in American Houston, that one who seemed eternal record beat a simple Russian guy from Karabanovo - a town at the junction of Moscow and Vladimir regions. So simple that when asked about the main post-sports dream, he always answered - to open a car service in his city and deal with cars.
“I have never lifted this much weight before – I am 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, he brought me to weightlifting. My mother died in 2012 and I dedicate this victory and these records to her.”, - Lovchev appeared in weightlifting from the age of nine, and lifted the first weights in the gym, which was built by his father.
Lovchev's record attempt at 264 kg is a great motivational video for those who are used to giving up when it's hard.
Most likely, you didn’t watch it - it’s not customary for us to spend the second hour of Saturday night on weightlifting. Therefore, you will not see how, after a successful approach to 248 kg (the second attempt, which actually provided Lovchev with gold), the coaches threw Lovchev leaving the platform - shall we go to 64? He didn't even answer, just nodded his chin. What, they say, questions, of course we go ...
With my friends we celebrate the victory of our team!
“When I was little, I often watched Rezazade's performances on TV, lifting huge weights. 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 what he could not believe - he became the most powerful man on the planet.
With Sports Minister VitalyMutkoand my friendAlexanderIvanov
Here it is worth making one caveat.
Officially, Lovchev now has two world records - the most important in the total of the biathlon and a separate one in the clean and jerk (he also belonged to Rezazade, but held a little less - since the 2004 Olympics in Athens). The record in the snatch is still held by another Iranian, Behdad Salimi - before the 214 kg he took four years ago, Lovchev did not have three kilograms yesterday.
But in reality, Lovchev has so far only repeated the best amount in the history of weightlifting, and in the clean and jerk his result is only the third. Why is that?
The thing is that world records in weightlifting were reset three times - in 1993 and 1998, the International Federation redrawn the weight categories, and the countdown of new achievements began from the beginning.
Therefore, all the results, tortured by weightlifters before 1998, are probably undeservedly forgotten. Just remember - in 1988, when the heavyweight category began not with 105 kg, as it is now, but with 110 kg (is there a fundamental difference in the lower limit of absolute weight?), Leonid Taranenko pushed the barbell by 266 kg (four years earlier 265 kg pushed Anatoly Pisarenko) and scored a total of 475 kg.
A good benchmark for Lovchev, who, two years after his international debut (the 2013 Bronze World Championships - the first big start in Alexei'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 “barred” the snatch, leaving no result at all.
“We have with Ruslan a good relationship. There is no tension, and even more so there is no enmity, we regularly communicate 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 a strategic one. He and Lovchev were ready to work on world records and did not want to wear them out with this confrontation., — Main coach national team Alexander Venkov explained the sudden exclusion of Albegov from the application of the national team.
As for Aleksey, he could go for a world record in the snatch, but we made a common decision just to provide an advantage over the rivals before the clean and jerk. And only when, after two attempts in the clean and jerk, it became clear that Alexey won gold, he, in agreement with personal trainers And coaching staff team went on a world record. And returned the highest world achievement in heavyweight weight class to Russia - after two decades of leadership of Iranian weightlifters.
All world record holders in the heavyweight division in history (the most recent records set are indicated):
Christo 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 zeroing the results 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)
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At the end of the 2014 World Weightlifting Championship in Almaty, our website has 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 when he wants to. He has no problems with this,” the Austrian Gottfried Schedl, president of the International Weightlifting Federation, admired the Soviet hero.
Vasily Alekseev is the holder of the current world record for the sum of three exercises - 645 kg (at present, official weightlifting triathlon competitions are not held, therefore Alekseev's record cannot be repeated and beaten.
He opened the era of "six hundred", the first to conquer the six hundred kilogram peak.
At the 1970 World Championships in the United States, he put in place the main competitor of the American, Joseph Dube, who promised to "defeat the communists." Alekseev lifted the 500-pound barbell, the 6,000-strong 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 - under 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 this moment an American who won Olympic gold in weightlifting in the weight category (over 90 kg).
3. Waldemar Baszanowski, 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 sports career set 7 world records. The snatch record - 188 kg has been valid since 1999. The record for the combined total - 412 kg, set at the same time, lasted more than 12 years and was improved by Ilya Ilyin at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
5. Tommy Kono, USA (1930)
The "Iron Hawaiian" didn't come 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. Khalil 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 Riegert, 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, people were evacuated there in bulk, like my parents. In 1964, when all restrictions were already completely lifted, we returned to our former location of residence, to the 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). Zhabotinsky, like Yuri Vlasov, Vasily Alekseev was the idol of Arnold Schwarzenegger. During Zhabotinsky's visit to the United States at the invitation of Schwarzenegger, Arnold told him: “From childhood, I was rooting for you. Even during the Tokyo Olympics, although Shemansky and Gubner competed there. Of course, I was also worried about them, but for some reason I wanted you to win.
1. Max Duton (England) performed a 34kg bench press 845 times in 1891.
2. Georg Gakkenshmidt (Russia) spread his arms horizontally to the sides with 32 kg kettlebells bottom down 5 times in 1899.
3. Emil Voss (Germany) pushed a 110 kg barbell with his right hand, and juggled a 49 kg kettlebell with his left in 1903.
4. Sandow (Germany) performed a bench press with a lift with his left hand, lay on his back, rose, holding a barbell weighing 115 kg in his hand in 1896.
5. Arthur Hennig (Germany) lifted a barbell weighing 154 kg to his chest, performed a bench press with a lift right hand in 1902.
6. Ivan Selykh (Russia) performed a bench press with lifting 3 weights of 32 kg in 1907.
7. Znamensky (Russia) performed a bench press with the left hand of two weights of 32 kg, placed one on top of the other in 1899.
8. Franz Stär (Austria) performed a right hand press in a rack without deflecting the body and bending the knees 50 kg 25 times in 1897.
9. Karl Svoboda (Austria) performed a right hand press in the rack without deflecting the body and bending the knees 101 kg in 1912.
10. Petr 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 apart an unopened deck of cards in 55 seconds in 1912.
12. John Grün (Germany) broke a horseshoe in 23 seconds in 1907.
13. Tom Walter Kennedy (USA) performed a deadlift with legs and back straightening with a core of 36 pounds in 1893.
14. Louis Cyr (Canada) performed a deadlift, with straightening of the legs and back, of a ball bar weighing 669 kg in 1894.
15. Hermann Gessler (Germany) lay down and got up with a bag of metal on his back weighing 250 kg in 1912.
16. Hans Beck (Germany) lifted a barrel of beer from the floor without tools in 1890.
17. Anton Riha (Czechoslovakia) carried a weight of 854 kg in 1891.
18. Louis Cyr (Canada) lifted a platform weighing 1867 kg with his back from the stands in 1892.
19. Louis Cyr (Canada) lifted the ball bar with his right hand to the knees 440 kg in 1892.
20. Sandow (Germany) did a back somersault while holding a weight of 1.5 pounds in each hand in 1891.
21. Paul Anderson (USA) performed a 425kg back squat in 1955.
22. Paul Anderson (USA) performed a semi-squat with a wagon ramp weighing 900 kg in 1955.
23. Ludwig Chaplinsky (Russia) jumped over the dining table with a ram in his hands weighing 40 kg in 1911.
24. Nikolai Vakhturov (Russia) threw a 32 kg weight over a railroad car in 1912.
25. Willy Kutter (Germany) performed a pull-up on the bar top grip right hand at own weight 95 kg 12 times in 1900.
26. Ivan Zaikin (Russia) lifted a 40-bucket barrel of water onto 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. Petr Yankovsky (Russia) performed a bench press of a 3-pound kettlebell, holding it in the palm of his hand and sitting on the floor in 1905.
29. Henri Stjernon (France) carried two 456 kg cannons on his back in 1876.
30. Grigory Kashcheev (Russia) carried on his back live horse in 1908.
31. Karl Svoboda (Austria) performed a two-hand press in a rack without deflection of the body and bending the knees 165 kg with a body weight of 70 kg in 1911.
32. Yuri Vlasov (USSR) performed a straight bench press of 185 kg with a body weight of 135 kg in 1967.
33. Oskar Valund (Sweden) lifted a 2105 kg weight with back straps from a platform in 1912.
At the city festival in Kholmsk, weightlifter Maxim Sheiko blocked the result by 18 kg (!) Olympic champion London Games and broke the world record in clean and jerk.At the city festival in Kholmsk, weightlifter Maxim Sheiko overcame the result of the Olympic champion of the London Games by 18 kg (!) and broke the world record in the clean and jerk.
PRIVATE BUSSINESS
What happened in Sakhalin Kholmsk does not fit into my head. 24 years old Maxim Sheiko with a result of 430 kg in the biathlon, he would have easily won the recent Olympic Games. Despite the fact that he missed the Games, without going into the national team. Gone Khadzhimurat Akkaev And Dmitry Klokov who ended up not competing due to injury...
- Maxim, what was it?- Yesterday our correspondent got through to the troublemaker.
“Nothing special,” the weightlifter replied calmly, his two-year-old daughter Ariana was wailing in the background. - I was ready for this weight. But, to be honest, until the last moment I did not want information about my results to come out. After all, in my weight category there is a lot of competition.
- It's clear. But why storm the world record at a small town festival?
– The original idea was to lift the barbell with a light weight. So, to promote the sport. But I'm in good shape now. He proposed to introduce an element of competition - to make three attempts in the snatch, three in the clean and jerk and try to lift a decent weight. That's all.
- That's all?! You would win the Olympics with a margin!
Believe me, I'm not the only one who has such thoughts. I repeat, we all perfectly understood that we should 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 holiday, no one jumped 2.40 in height?
- You're laughing. The City Day celebration turned out to be excellent. Just imagine - an open stadium, 500 spectators. A special stage has been installed where artists perform, and next to it is a platform where I lift the barbell. The heat is 30 degrees, the 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. Like, they allegedly didn’t send you to the Olympics so as not to get caught in a scandal.
- Nonsense! I was weaker than the competition. And doping… There are too many evil tongues. You can’t explain to everyone that we take doping tests not only at competitions, but also at any other time.
- Your world record in the clean and jerk 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 enough.
This is only 5 kg more than Maxim took in Kholmsk ...
BY THE WAY. SHEIKO SERVED A 2-YEAR SUSPENSION
In 2010, a doping sample taken from Maksim Sheiko after the championship of Russia, it turned out to be positive. Anabolic methandrostenolone was found in the athlete's blood.
The 22-year-old Russian was suspended for two years, after which he returned to big sport.
RUSSIAN TEAM COACH DAVID RIGERT: WE WILL PREPARE MAXIM FOR THE 2016 OLYMPIAD
Phenomenal performance Maksim Sheiko on Sakhalin did not surprise the head coach of the Russian men's team David Riegert.
“In fact, there is nothing supernatural in this result,” he noted. Rigert. - Maxim was preparing 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 line-up for the World Cup. And then 105 kg is not weight Sheiko. Why immediately throw him into hell? We will prepare the guy for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
“But that would be in London.” Golden medal…
– Now, in hindsight, everyone is strong. But who knew that everything would turn out like this? No one thought that some would be removed, others would not take weight. Clearly, now if you know the results of London, then we can say that several of our guys would fight for the highest award. But before the Games, they could hardly count on medals.
- There are several versions at once - why Akkaev and Klokov did not end up at the Olympics. What really happened?
- Concerning Akkaeva, then the situation is as follows: an incorrect diagnosis was made in Moscow. They said, they say, a small hernia, everything will be fine. But already in London, his legs began to take away. The situation was very serious, I 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 seems like something happened to his knee, although he had never had problems with his knees before. Although I understand that there is a first time for everything.
- It was no longer possible to replace one of them with the same Sheiko?
- No. Final composition should have been announced on July 26 from 14:00 to 16:00. On the 28th we learned about Klokova, and on August 2 operated Akkaeva…
FROM THE HISTORY OF THE QUESTION. WHY SHEIKO DID NOT GO TO THE OLYMPIAD
The composition of the participants of the Russian team in the category up to 105 kg was determined by the results of the 2011 World Championship in Paris.
Then Maxim Sheiko has not competed in this category yet (his main category is up to 94 kg). Wherein Khadzhimurat Akkaev won the world championship Dmitry Klokov won silver. And in the remaining time before the Games, both athletes proved that they are the strongest weightlifters of the country in their category.
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The strongest men are engaged. They are able to lift simply incredible weights that no one else can even budge.
Every year more and more new records are set, but there are also those that are very difficult and no one can beat them for decades. Consider the most incredible world records.
Strongest
"Most strong man on the planet" - so it was called in its 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 with a weight of 526 kg three times in a row. He did this every day for several weeks and said that such a weight for him was the usual worker, and not the maximum. He did this without any athletic equipment, and barefoot. For example, the modern record was set by Doni Thompson, who squatted with a weight of 590 kg. And in 1975, without equipment, a record was set in the squat with a weight of 423.5 kg by Don Reinhodt - this record has not yet been broken by anyone.
Another amazing achievement of Anderson is 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 tear off 2844 kg of weight, which exceeded the records set before him by almost a ton.
Andy Bolton, an English weightlifter, also set incredible world records in weightlifting. He set three world records: 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 over 453.6 kg (1000 pounds).
In the deadlift, success should be noted 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, it is impossible not to mention the achievement of the American athlete Ryan Kennelly. Without equipment, he squeezes 297 kg. A lot of? In equipment in 2008, Ryan squeezed 478.6 kg! So far, no one can beat this world record in weightlifting.
Iran ahead
In such an exercise as a snatch, in the absolute weight category, world records in weightlifting belong only to athletes from Iran. And it is noteworthy that the two most recent belong to the teacher with 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 breakthrough at the National Tournament, which was held in Iran, with a weight of 214 kg. At the same time, in the clean and jerk, the world record in Hossein's weightlifting remained unbeaten - no one managed to take a weight of more than 263 kg.
Despite the development of training systems, as well as sports supplements, which weightlifters use, so far no one has been able to surpass the result of a Soviet athlete who in 1988 submitted a weight in the clean and jerk of 266 kg. Then in the sum of the biathlon 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. Does it seem a little? 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!
Kettlebells are lighter than fluff for them
Let's touch a little and the World Champion in this sport Pavel Lesnykh, who lives in the Altai Territory, does not get tired of setting more and more new records. In 2007, Pavel set a world record by pushing a weight of 36 kilograms 1030 times. He did it in exactly an hour and a half.
And this is really a grandiose achievement, since the previous record, which was set by Vyacheslav Khoronenko, the “Belarusian king of kettlebells”, was 1020 jerks with a 32 kilogram kettlebell.
In addition, Pavel managed to push a 41 kg kettlebell 209 times, as well as hold a 52 kg kettlebell for 30 minutes on weight, thus setting new weightlifting world records.
No less world records were set by another Russian athlete - Ivan Denisov, the multiple champion of Russia and the world in kettlebell lifting. He set a world record in 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 in the biathlon, which consists of a push and a jerk, a result of 387 points. 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 the new weightlifting world records being set by athletes are becoming less and less different from those already set. And this is despite new methods, nutrition and funding for athletes. All more people attribute this to the fact that they just got close to the possibilities physical strength human body, and therefore there can no longer be big gaps in the records. Like it or not, only time will tell. As they say, "wait and see."
