Iranian powerhouse weightlifter Ali Davoudi got to celebrate his 20th birthday in the best possible way. After just joining the 2-0 club he casually hit a huge clean & jerk of 240 kilograms,
The snatch is athleticism, precision, and timing personified, but the clean & jerk is where the championships are won. Taking the heaviest weight possible from the ground to overhead is one of the
The news isn’t a big surprise to many fans of international weightlifting, but it looks like it’s become official: Four Russian weightlifters — including (now former) 2015 World Weightlifting Champion and World Record holder
For most of the 1990s, Olympic weightlifting’s heaviest weight class was ruled by the Russian giant Andrei Chemerkin. At his competition peak, Chemerkin’s 6 foot frame supported nearly 400 pounds of bodyweight, which
For years, there have been rumors of ungodly big lifts completed in Soviet training halls during the Cold War: Pisarenko’s 270 kilo clean & jerk and 280 clean; Yuri Zakharevich’s 300 kilo jerk (!). Then
