Bird In Flight has collected statistics sports records XX-XXI centuries, trying to understand how much stronger, faster and more enduring a person has become and whether the progress of athletic performance can testify to ongoing evolution.
He landed on his feet, sprung, jumped a couple more times like a frog and, dancing, ran to the benches. It was not a dance of joy. Bob Beamon considered the first jump after a barely passed qualification in the final of the Olympics-68 as a trial one. He does not look back at the jump pit, does not pay attention to the revival among the judges and does not understand why the Soviet delegation is looking at him like that. The judges fiddled with measurements for half an hour: the stationary scale was too short, they had to use a tape measure. Even after the announcement of the figure 8.90 -
that an insane 55 centimeters further than the world record - the American does not look happy, although by the reaction of others he already understands that he jumped very well. Bimon grew up in a grim New York ghetto, got an athletic scholarship, and didn't know much about the metric system. “You jumped 29 feet,” another American jumper, Ralph Boston, told him, and Bob Beamon collapsed in a nervous hysterics. The next day they could not get him out of his stupor.
Bob Beamon and Sergey Bubka are not only names, but also sports strategies. The fantastic achievement of the first has deprived the motivation of an entire generation of athletes, including the record holder himself. Two years after the Olympics, he retired from jumping into basketball, and soon ended his sports career altogether. Sergei Bubka stretched his 35 records for ten years. He deliberately, which now does not hide, improved the centimeter record, although at the peak of his form he could jump it immediately by 10. The reason is the prize money received for each record and the desire to remain the main character in his discipline for a longer time.
Bob Beamon - 55 centimeters forward, the record was held for 23 years.
Sergei Bubka - 29 centimeters up, the record in open stadiums has not been surpassed for 21 years. The numbers look like a rebuke to modern athletes. Is it a defect of perception in the spirit of "the grass was greener before, and the men were stronger", or do the records really become less frequent and smaller over time?
I must say that pessimism is characteristic of every generation of specialists. In 1934, the famous American athletics coach Brutus Hamilton predicted that people would never be able to jump higher than 2 m 10 cm, run a hundred meters in less than 10.1 seconds, and 1,500 m in less than 3: 44.8. The forecast turned out to be as wrong as any attempt to imagine the distant future. Up until our time, the growth of world record indicators has been programmed by progress in each of the four most important components: in the training method, sports pharmacology, technical improvement of inventory and equipment, selection of talents. The question is how long they can still push the human body to records, which has changed little over the past thousand years.
Perhaps the answer is found in the modern French Institute of Biomedicine and Epidemiology (Irmes). His mathematical analysis of 3,260 records set since 1896 shows that athletes now use 99% of the physiological capabilities of the body - this is against 75% they used at the end of the 19th century. The remaining 1% can provide a measly 0.05% improvement in records in only half of the sports, and only until 2060. What then? Then either the Institute of Biomedicine and Epidemiology will be closed, or there will be only robots in sports.
Confusing predictions, we've looked at the history of world records in eight popular disciplines to give you a baseline for your own conclusions.
Pole vaulting
Increased athleticism and improved technique are attributed to
growth of results in all sports. So, evolutionarily, pole vaults also develop, but only as long as
there is no next revolution in the way it is made.
Bamboo
and wooden poles 1912-1946
Best result:
4.77 meters (1942)
Metal
pole 1946-1960
Best result:
4.8 meters (1960)
Fiberglass from 1960 to today Best result:
6.16 meters (2014)
During the first competition in mid XIX For centuries, hardwood poles were used, and the jump was more like climbing. The appearance of the bending bamboo poles at the end of the century coincided with the prohibition to climb up them. The elasticity of bamboo made it possible to jump over 4 meters and by the 1940s, when metal poles appeared, to reach a record of 4.77 m.The metal ones were lighter and stronger, but did not give a tangible increase in the results: in 14 years the record grew by only 3 cm ...
Sergey Bubka
Set 35 world records from 1984 to 1994
The first examples of fiberglass poles were presented at the 1960 Roman Olympics. Their powerful straightening more efficiently transferred the kinetic energy of the takeoff run forward and upward, and until the early 1980s the world record had increased by a meter.
In 1934, Brutus Hamilton predicted that people would never be able to jump higher than 2 m 10 cm, run a hundred meters in less than 10.1 seconds.
Renault Lavilleni
In 2014 he broke the record of Sergei Bubka
In 1984, Sergei Bubka set the first of his 35 world records. This fantastic series brought the previously unpopular pole vaulting to the ranks of the leading athletics disciplines. In 10 years, through the efforts of one man, the maximum result in open stadiums has grown from 5.85 m to 6.14 m. He used a pole designed for heavier athletes and held it unusually close to the end - this is one of many attempts to explain the superiority of Bubka. The Ukrainian himself believed that the records he had set could be broken only with the advent of radically new poles. But it seems that the reserves of fiberglass have not yet been exhausted - in 2014, Renault Lavilleni jumped over the bar set at a height of 6.16 m at the Donetsk Sports Palace.
Chronology of records
pole vaulting in 100 years Note:
Swimming
Swimming
The history of the latest records in swimming is at the same time the history of the struggle between the defenders of sports traditions and technical progress.
5x Olympic champion
In 1999, 16-year-old Ian Thorpe, a future five-time Olympic champion, sets the first of his world records. 3: 41.83 minutes in the 400m freestyle is almost two seconds better than the previous achievement. Thorpe performed in ordinary swimming trunks. Immediately after the end of the championship, he signs a contract with Adidas for an unnamed number with five zeros and begins performing in a polyurethane jumpsuit that increases buoyancy and reduces friction. Over the next three years, the Australian sets 12 personal world records, including four times the 400m freestyle record.
In 1934, Brutus Hamilton predicted that people would never be able to jump higher than 2 m 10 cm, run a hundred meters in less than 10.1 seconds.
Paul Biederman
In 2009 broke the Ian Thorpe record
In 2009, three years after Thorp left the sport, the German Paul Biederman, in an even more perfect jumpsuit, hitting the result at 400 meters freestyle - 3: 40.07. At the same World Championship in Rome, 42 more world records are set. Many of them hold on to this day, because with next year International Federation swimming banned the use of costumes in official competitions The records were not cleared. Sports officials cite the precedent of Usain Bolt, who, in 2008, was able to beat Ben Johnson's steroid 100-meter achievement by a tenth of a second, which lasted for 20 years. Swimming awaits new heroes.
Chronology of records
in swimming (400 m freestyle,
pool 50 m) for 100 years Note: Until 2000, the graph shows only those records that exceed the previous ones by at least 1 second.
Marathon
42km
Marathon 42 km 195m
The progress of the results in the marathon is divided into three historical periods. Until the end of the 1950s, it was a time of more and more persistent training, when athletes, all representatives of developed countries, began to run up to 150 kilometers a week. In 1960, the Olympics were won barefoot by Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia, and the globalization of the marathon began, which has now become the hegemony of East African runners.
In the early 1980s, competitions started around the world with substantial cash prizes, which became the reason for the high commercialization and professionalization of the marathon. Many top athletes miss the World Championships and Olympics for commercial starts with prizes of several tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars, because they are able to show maximum speed no more than once or twice a year. Since 1999, the world record in the marathon has been updated twice by a Moroccan, twice by an Ethiopian, and four times by a Kenyan. The superiority of East African runners is commonly attributed to their high altitude life, which contributes to more efficient oxygen consumption; ratio of height and weight unusual for immigrants from developed countries; active training in childhood (often forced to run 10 km to school and back) and mature age when participating in a marathon becomes the only chance to break out of poverty.
Marathon at the 1896 Olympics
However, in 2014, Kenyan runner Rita Jeptu, who won the prestigious marathons in Chicago and Boston, was disqualified for using erythropoietin. Experts point out that leading African runners and entire running schools can now afford to hire Western pharmaceutical specialists. At the same time, there are practically no anti-doping organizations in their countries, that is, in the intervals between performances, athletes are not subjected to any checks.
Abebe Bikila
First-ever two-time Olympic marathon champion - 1960 and 1964
Chronology of records
in a marathon (42 km 195 m) in 100 years Note: if several world records were set in one year, only one is displayed on the graph - best result this year.
Cycling
Cycling
The history of the hourly cycling record shows how technological progress in cycling has outpaced the growth of human physical abilities. Since the end of the 19th century, the achievement has been updated several dozen times, and each new record shifts rode on more and more advanced technology. Sometimes it was specially designed for this race.
Finally, in 1996, the International Cycling Union brought back to the race the spirit of competition between athletes, not manufacturers. The reference hour record was recognized for the achievement of Eddie Merckx, nicknamed Cannibal, a five-time winner of the Tour de France and a Giro d'Italia, a three-time world champion.
Chris Boardman
The current undisputed champion. Set a record in 1996
In 1972, at a velodrome in Mexico City, he traveled 49,431 meters in an hour. The only way to break this record was a bike with a classic 1970s design. Cyclists' results on modern technology were singled out in a separate category "Best Human Achievement".
Ondřej Sosenka
In 2005, he set a record for a classic bike.
Since then, the hour record on a classic bike has been improved by only 270 meters - Ondřej Sosenka, three years after this success, was disqualified for consuming methamphetamine. But the "Best Human Achievement" exceeds the record of Eddie Merckx by almost 7 kilometers. Chris Boardman put it on carbon bike with disk rear wheel and a Superman rudder that extended the arms far forward for improved aerodynamics.
Mavic Lotus bike that Chris Boardman set the record on
Chronology of records
in cycling for 100 years Note: if several world records were set in one year, only one is displayed on the graph - the best result of this year.
Historical record
Men Women
Hour record
Men Women
Best Human Achievement
Men Women
Jumping
in length
Long jump
Long jumps are getting shorter. Greg Rutherford's best 2014 male result was 8.51 m, 1 cm less than his 1979 best and 40 cm less than the world record set by Mike Powell in 1991.
Mike Powell
Reigning long jump record holder
In 1935 Jesse Owens became the first to fly 8 meters. Eighty years later, with his result of 8.13 m, you can take medals at the Olympics and win prestigious international competitions the level of the stages of the "Diamond League".
What's happening? The politically correct explanation is about money. The key to a good jumper is high speed. Now you can earn much more with it in sprint running and American football.
The first number of the US national long jump team at the 2012 Olympics, Marquis Goodwin, a year later left athletics in the NFL, where he became the wide receiver of the Buffalo Bills.
When cameras and voice recorders are turned off, active athletes and coaches accuse past champions of doping, which has been greatly complicated by new test systems today. However, not caught - not a thief, and few dare to openly question the achievements of the icons of athletics. Former President of the World Anti-Doping Agency Dick Pound also did not name names in an interview with The New York Times: “Our athletes are getting stronger, and training methods are improving, but some records remain intact. I think the reason is obvious. There were a lot of chemistry results then. "
Chronology of records
long jump in 100 years Note: if several world records were set in one year, only one is displayed on the graph - the best result of this year.
Throwing
spears
Javelin-throwing
A unique case in the history of athletics - in 1984, the results in javelin throw were considered too high.
Then the representative of the GDR Uwe Hon for the first time threw a spear over a hundred meters - at 104.8 m. This range began to threaten the safety of spectators at the stadium, and changes were made to the design of the projectile. The center of gravity of the spear was shifted 4 cm closer to the tip, so that in flight it would peck down earlier.
In 1984, he threw an old-style spear at 104.8 meters
In 1986, the second countdown of records in this discipline began. In 1991 - already the third, when spears with toothed plumage and other modifications were banned, with which manufacturers tried to neutralize the displacement of the center of gravity.
Uwe Hon at a competition in 1984
But no changes prevented the Czech Jan Zhelezny again approaching the 100-meter mark. From 1992 to 1996, he broke the world record four times. The latest achievement, 98.48 m, now seems almost unattainable. The world record is more than 5 meters higher than the second result in history and by 10 meters - the best result of the 2014 season.
Yan Iron
Reigning record holder in javelin throw
Physically, Jan (185 cm and 79–85 kg) was noticeably inferior to the former record holders. Uwe Hon's parameters are 199 cm and 114 kg, Seppo Reti - 190 cm and up to 120 kg. The Czech champion was given the advantage by impeccable coordination of movements and a unique throwing technique.
Chronology of records
in javelin throwing for 100 years Note: if several world records were set in one year, only one is displayed on the graph - the best result of this year. Skater costume manufactured by the American corporation Under Armor
In the mid-1990s, athletes received skates with blades made from special types of steel that reduce friction. However, the revolution in sports was made by purely mechanical improvement. Flaps - so for the characteristic sound during movement, they call boots, the heel of which comes off freely from the blade. Already at the 1998 Olympics, the absolute majority of skaters competed in klaps. Among them was the Dutchman Gianni Romme, who improved the record for a distance of 10,000 meters by another 15 seconds.
Clap skates are about 12% more efficient due to increased push length - the blade maintains contact with the ice even when the foot is extended
Sven Kramer
The current record holder in speed skating (10,000 m)
In the same place, in Nagano, zigzags made of adhesive rubber, which unpleasantly surprised competitors, appeared on Dutch overalls. They break up the air flow around the athlete, create turbulence and reduce friction. The coach of the US national team then stated that stripes can improve the result by 0.5 seconds per lap. After that, the leading national teams of the world put a lot of effort into improving the costumes. In particular, now their outer rubberized layer fetters the runner in a dense cocoon, helping him to maintain the most aerodynamic-friendly posture. Technology Race in speed skating continues.
Chronology of records in speed running
ice skating (10,000 m) in 100 years Note: if several world records were set in one year, only one is displayed on the graph - the best result of this year.
Vasily Alekseev
Two-time Olympic champion and six-time world champion.
Set a 1972 recordThe results of this study were actually confirmed by the International Weightlifting Federation, which twice - in 1993 and 1998 - reset the list of world records. The official explanation for this was the change in the boundaries of the weight categories, the real reason was the too obvious contribution of doping to the setting of the highest achievements.
Maybe it is in weightlifting opportunities human body were exhausted several decades ago.
Hussein Rezazade
Reigning champion
lifting the bar in heavyweight champion
Now this sport, along with cycling, remains among the most "naughty". Here are just a few recent scandals: from participation in the 2014 World Cup due to positive tests eight weightlifters were immediately suspended for doping, among them two gold medalists; already in 2015, 11 members of the Bulgarian national team, including two European champions, were caught using anabolic steroids.
Chronology of barbell lifting records
heavyweight title in 100 years
At the end of the 2014 World Weightlifting Championship in Almaty, our site has compiled a rating of weightlifting stars.
1. Vasily Alekseev, USSR (1942 - 2011)
The only eight-time world champion in the history of world weightlifting, 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 problem with that,” the President of the International Weightlifting Federation, Austrian Gottfried Schaedl, admired the Soviet hero.
Vasily Alekseev is the holder of the current world record for the sum of three exercises - 645 kg (currently there are no official weightlifting competitions, 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 Cup in the United States, he replaced the main rival of the American, Joseph Dube, who promised to "defeat the communists." Alekseev lifted a 500-pound barbell, the six-thousandth American gym stood up and gave the Soviet athlete a standing ovation! They hugged and rejoiced as if their athlete had won!
After leaving active athletes, Alekseev continued his career as the head coach of the USSR national team. He installed another one absolute record- with him, not a single member of the national 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 American to Win olympic gold in weightlifting in 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 sports career set 7 world records. The snatch record of 188 kg has been in effect since 1999. The record in total double-event - 412 kg, set at the same time, lasted more than 12 years and was improved by Ilya Ilyin by Olympic Games ah in 2012 in London.
5. Tommy Kono, US (1930)
The Iron Hawaiian did not release the lightweight title 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, Turkey (1973)
3-time Olympic champion (Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004). 5-time world champion (1994, 1998, 1999,2001, 2003).
8. Naim Suleimanoglu, Bulgaria - Turkey (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, people were evacuated there in bulk, like my parents. In 1964, when all restrictions had already been lifted by one hundred percent, 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 times world record holder.
12. Leonid Zhabotinsky, USSR-Ukraine (1938)
Two-time Olympic champion (Tokyo-1964, Mexico-1968). 4-time world champion (1964, 1965, 1966, 1968). Zhabotinsky, 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 Shemansky and Gubner performed there. Of course, I worried about them too, but for some reason I wanted you to win. "
European Championship weightlifting took place in 1983 from 22 to 31 October in Moscow as part of this year's World Championship. 123 athletes from 19 countries took part in the European Championship. Contents 1 Medalists 2 Team competition ... Wikipedia
The World Weightlifting Championship was held in 1983 from October 22 to 31 at the Izmailovo universal sports complex in Moscow. It was originally planned that the tournament would be held in Yerevan, but due to the incomplete construction of the Yerevan ... ... Wikipedia
Weightlifting competitions at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were held from July 20 to 30 at the Izmailovo universal sports complex. They were attended by 172 athletes from 40 countries. The main fight in the unofficial team event ... ... Wikipedia
President's Cup Russian Federation weightlifting international tournament weightlifting national teams. The organizers of the competition are the Russian Ministry of Sports and Tourism and the Russian Weightlifting Federation. Competitions have been held since 2011 ... ... Wikipedia
It was formed in 1992 for the development of this sport in Kazakhstan, which is included in the program of the Summer Olympic Games. The federation is part of the International Weightlifting Federation and the Asian Weightlifting Federation. Contents 1 Structure 1.1 ... ... Wikipedia
Weightlifting is a speed-strength sport, which is based on the performance of exercises to raise the bar over your head. Weightlifting competition today includes two exercises: snatch and clean and jerk ... Wikipedia
Sports complex in Izmailovo in July 1980 during the ... Wikipedia
Highest achievements established by individual athletes or teams in official competitions in sports, where these achievements can be objectively determined by precise units of measurement (time, distance, weight, quantity ... ... Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Alexey Lovchev this night updated two world records and became the strongest man on the planet
"I did it! Friends, thanks to everyone who believed and supported me! Russia is the greatest power, and we are confirmation of this! "- wrote Alexey Lovchev on his page a few hours after he became the world champion and updated two legendary world records.
World records in the men's heavyweight category are so rare that last time it happened back in the last century (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 is the sum of two attempts - in snatch and clean and jerk) and won the Sydney Olympics.
Yesterday, in Houston, America, that seemingly eternal record was broken by a simple Russian guy from Karabanovo, a town at the junction of the Moscow and Vladimir regions. So simple that when asked about his main after-sport dream, he always answered - to open a car service in his city and deal with cars.
“I've never lifted this kind of weight before - I'm overwhelmed. This proves that Russia is the strongest nation. I could not 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 was in weightlifting from the age of nine, and he 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 it's hard.
Most likely, you have not watched this - the second hour of Saturday night is not customary for us to spend on weightlifting. Therefore, you will not see how, after a successful approach of 248 kg (the second attempt, which actually provided Lovchev with gold), the coaches threw Lovchev, who was leaving the platform - shall we go to 64? He did not even answer - so, nodded his chin. What, they say, questions, of course we are going ...
We celebrate the victory of our team with my friends!
“When I was little, I often watched on TV performances of Rezazade lifting huge weights. He was an example for me, I never could have imagined that one day I would surpass his record ", - that night, 26-year-old Lovchev did what he could not believe - became the strongest man on the planet.
With the Minister of Sports VitalyMutkoand my friendAlexanderIvanov
One caveat is worth making here.
Officially, Lovchev now has two world records - the most important in the combined event and a separate one in the clean and jerk (he also previously belonged to Rezazade, but held on a little less - from the 2004 Olympics in Athens). The record in the snatch is still held by another Iranian, Behdad Salimi - until the 214 kg he took four years ago, Lovchev lacked 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 to zero three times - in 1993 and 1998, the International Federation reshaped 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 by Anatoly Pisarenko) and gained a total of 475 kg.
Not a bad benchmark for Lovchev, who two years after his international debut (bronze World Cup 2013 - 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 “hit” a spurt, having no result at all.
“We have good relations with Ruslan. There is no tension, let alone 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 strategic. He and Lovchev were ready to work on world records and did not want to wear them out with this confrontation. ", — head coach national team Alexander Venkov explained Albegov's sudden exclusion from the national team's application.
As for Alexei, he could have set the world record in the snatch as well, but we made a common decision to simply 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 Alexei won gold, he agreed with personal trainers and coaching staff the national team went to the world record. And brought back the highest world achievement in the heavyweight division to Russia - after two decades of leadership by Iranian weightlifters.
All world record holders in the heavyweight category in history (the latest set records 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 to zero in 1993); Ronnie Weller (Germany) - 465 kg; Hossein Rezazade (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
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 those that are very difficult to achieve and no one can beat them for decades. Consider the most incredible world records.
Strongest
"Most the strong man on the planet ”- so it was called in due time. American 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 sit down with a weight of 526 kg in a row as many as three times. He did this every day for several weeks and said that such a weight was for him an ordinary 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 squatting with a weight of 423.5 kg by Don Reinhodt - this record has not yet been broken.
Another amazing achievement of Anderson is lifting the weight of one right hand... He lifted 136 kg 11 times. He did such exercises with special dumbbells.
Tearing off almost three tons of weight is possible!
He set one of the most incredible world records in raises. Anderson was able to tear off 2844 kg of weight, which was almost a ton higher than the records set before him.
Also incredible world records in weightlifting were set by Andy Bolton, an English weightlifter. 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 lift over 453.6 kg (1000 lb) deadlifts.
In the deadlift, success should be noted in the spring of 2011 in equipment, he set a world record in weightlifting and lifted 460 kg at the classic tournament.
As for that, one cannot fail to mention the achievement of the American athlete Ryan Kennelly. Without equipment, he squeezes 297 kg. Lot? Ryan squeezed 478.6 kg in equipment in 2008! 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, the world records in weightlifting belong only to athletes from Iran. And it is noteworthy that the last two belong to the teacher and his student. So, in 2003, Hossein Reza Zade set a world record by making a snatch with a bar weight of 213 kg. And in 2011, his student Bedhad Salimi surpassed the 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, Hossein's world weightlifting record remained unbeaten - no one managed to take weight more than 263 kg.
Despite the development of training systems, as well as sports supplements, which are used by weightlifters, so far no one has been able to surpass the result of the Soviet athlete to whom in 1988 the weight in the clean and jerk 266 kg was submitted. Then, in total, he gained 475 kg.
Also unsurpassed is the result of the Turkish athlete N. Suleimanoglu, who in the same 1988 was able to push a barbell weighing 190 kilograms, thereby setting a new world record in weightlifting. Seems a little? Your opinion will change when you find out in which category the athlete was then performing - 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 for them than fluff
Let's touch on 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 records. In 2007, Pavel set a world record by pushing a kettlebell weighing 36 kilograms 1030 times. He did it in exactly one and a half hours.
And this is really a tremendous achievement, since the previous record, which was set by Vyacheslav Khoronenko, the “Belarusian king of weights”, was 1020 pushing with a kettlebell weighing 32 kilograms.
In addition, Pavel managed to push a kettlebell weighing 41 kg 209 times, as well as hold a kettlebell weighing 52 kg for 30 minutes in weight, thereby setting new records in the world of weightlifting.
Another Russian athlete, Ivan Denisov, managed to set no less world records. multiple champion Russia and the world kettlebell lifting... He set a world record in long cycle... Pushing a 32 kg kettlebell in 2007, he managed to achieve a result of 109 points. And in 2005, Ivan was able to score 387 points in the biathlon, which consists of clean and jerk. 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 world records in weightlifting, which are set by athletes, are less and less different from those already set. And this even despite new methods, nutrition and funding for athletes. More and more people associate this with the fact that they are just getting close to the opportunities physical strength the human body, and therefore there can no longer be large gaps in the records. Whether it is true or not, only time will help to figure it out. As the saying goes, "wait and see."