*"Leonid Arkadevich Taranenko is a former Soviet/Belarusian weightlifter and coach. His 266 kg clean and jerk in 1988 is the heaviest lift in competition, though it is no longer an official world record due to subsequent restructuring of weight classes."* *How does this OFFICIAL lift simply DISAPPEAR from records because of the "restructuring of weight classes"? Absurd!*
Он выступал в категории «свыше 110 кг», сейчас она называется «свыше 109 кг», так ведь 110 кг - это и есть больше 109 кг! Этот рекорд должен быть защитан и в современной системе! Полностью с вами согласен!
I can confirm...its the strongest lifter of all times..(he was able to clean/jerk over 250kgs at more 40 years(and Tara smoked between 30 and 40.cigaret per day .)
Naim Suleymanoglu is the strongest lifter of all time (509 pt Sinclair Coefficient). Taranenko's best performance (this one) puts him in 26th place with 480 pt Sinclair Coefficient so he cannot be considered the strongest of all time. We can say that he lifted the greatest amount of weight in a competition but even then, Pisarenko did lift 265 kg and weighed less than Taranenko. Pisarenko reached 484 pts (12th place) when he lifted 265 kg.
Don Derondon naim was a dwarf pretty much, the weight had to travel a very small distance. Obviously still extremely storng but i do not consider him the strongest.
Lift the weight of three adult men off the floor and over your head, breaking your own world record, and walk off stage without even acknowledging the audience. That's *style*.
Taranenko 266kg November 26th 1988, Canberra, Australia. Still the heaviest C&J ever lifted in official competition, following Lasha Talakhadze 265kg C&J WR at Tokyo Olympics on August 4th 2021.
he will lift that next year, and in 2 years he will break the record, he just breaks records by 1 kilos so that he gets the bonus on every record break!
All time best C&J lifters: 1.) Taranenko 266 kg (1988) 2.) Pisarenko 265 kg (1984) 3.) Rezazadeh 263 kg (263,5 kg) (2004)= current WR 4.) Chemerkin 262,5 kg (1997) 5.) Didyk 261 kg (1983) 6.) Marchuk 260 kg (1982) 7.) Kurlovich 260 kg (1983) 8.) Nerlinger 260 kg (1988) 9.) Weller 260 kg (1998) 10.) Hyun Kim 260 kg (2000) 11.) Scerbatihs 260 kg (2003) 12.) Steiner 258 kg (2008) 13.) Aleksejev 256 kg (1977)
Lasha 264kg 2019 , Lasha will out lift every lifter you mentioned Tex , Lasha has snatch 220kg twice and he has snatch 2015 or more countless times. Lasha will go down as not only the greatest super but greatest lifter of all time.
@@martinfiay8908 this list is about C&J, not about snatch. Though Lasha should be on this list with his 264 kg, and no doubt he is a great lifter. But Taranenko's 266 kg is still the best lift ever.
IS TARANENKO'S 266 A VALID LIFT ? HE PRESSED OUT AT LEFT ARM AND HIS ELBOW LOCKED OUT A FEW TIMES. ALSO AFTER THE LIFT THEY DIDN'T DISPLAY THE WHITES OR REDS ON THE BOARD ????????
IS TARANENKO'S 266 A VALID LIFT ? HE PRESSED OUT AT LEFT ARM AND HIS ELBOW LOCKED OUT A FEW TIMES. ALSO AFTER THE LIFT THEY DIDN'T DISPLAY THE WHITES OR REDS ON THE BOARD ????????
Tonio Yahn not according to the Olympics, Taranenko used to compete for the USSR but he never did more than 247.5kg I think at the olympics. The olympic record is 263.5kg set in Athens 2004 by Hossein Rezazadeh of Iran
Tonio Yahn said World Record no Olympic, he is right Taranenko has the heaviest C & J of all time, but after Weight Categories change it is no longer recognized, which is absurd
This world record was official. They removed the weight classes of his time and replaced them with new ones, which is the one and only reason they made his world record unofficial, which is utter bullshit. Rezazadeh's record of 263.5 kg is one of the highest lifts ever, but Taranenko's lift is just higher.
The Soviets fucked over their athletes left and right: pumped em full of roids--this guy included--and then punished him when he didn't tow the line. That's why he's lifting here in the potato chip classic. Whole system was bat shit crazy. Still is with Putin. Country is a giant prison. Even Alexeev kept upping his world records in half kilo increments so he could make a decent buck. Sad
Lol where do the thumbs down come from on a video like this? Has to be jealousy. Its not like this is a beiber video. Its a showcase of the most elite athletic display of power in the world. Man..people really get childish and pathetic when they're sitting in front of their keyboards. Makes me embarrassed to be human
After years of watching Olympic lifters I can only begin to comprehend how much power and strength it takes to clean and jerk 585lbs pounds. Most people won't understand what they're witnessing here.
World record (now unofficial) by lifting a barbell in the clean and jerk belongs to Soviet weightlifter Leonid Taranenko. In November 1988 in Canberra (Australia) he was able to take the weight of 266 kg. However, in 1992, the IWF (international weightlifting Federation) has changed weight category, thus would be "erased" this world record. But in the book of Guinness world records and today he is considered unsurpassed.
It was a press out. If it was a more important event, the judges would have never given him the lift. Still impressive though, but I wouldn't say it's a valid lift.
Rezazadeh is also referred to by weightlifting commentators as "the strongest man in the world", primarily due to his world records in the olympics. He currently holds the world record in weightlifting's super heavyweight class in the clean and jerk and total. Leonid Taranenko 266Kg his record is not recognized by the International Weightlifting Federation. Hossein Rezazadeh 270kg Front squat record is not recognized too.
Razazadeh has not a single record. He only has the C&Y left, but that was below Taranenko, who still holds both the C&Y and total record in the open class.
I still cannot understand why this man and Piserenco are not in the record books as they both lifted more than Rezazedeh??? Super heavyweight means just that doesnt it? He isnt even listed in the lower weight class. Someone please explain this to me.
MrMegadipper They’re not; there is strict testing nowadays. As for the original question, perhaps the event wasn’t recognized. Not all events are officially recognized by the IWF, and lifts in those events are not registered in IWF records.
Vladimir Yemelyanov Yes, I know, but the original comment mentioned Rezazdeh, so I think he meant it wasn’t registered at the time they both competed, long before the weight classes were changed and the records expunged.
Long ago, a few short years after Alekseyev first lifted 500 lbs, I had been powerlifting and Olympic lifting a short time (148 lb class) and one day tried just rolling a bar loaded to 500 lbs a couple feet. I gained a whole other magnitude of awe for what he’d accomplished. Everyone interested in lifting should try something similar just to see how insanely heavy that much weight is, especially the thought of trying to put it overhead.
for English speakers at the bottom of my comment translation Леонид Тараненко один из величайших тяжело атлетов его труд и вклад в тяжелую атлетику невозможно оценить. Со слов самого атлета ему за этот рекорд дали всего лишь 4000 советских рублей, а автомобиль лада 2101 стоил тогда 6000 даже машину такую машину не мог купить за олимпийское золото, в которой он бы все равно не поместился. Вот так ценили наших спортсменов, выезжали на голом патриотизме. А сейчас футболисты пинают мяч за миллионы долларов США а что с них толку. Leonid Taranenko one of the greatest hard athletes his work and contribution to weightlifting can not be estimated. According to the athlete himself, for this record they gave only 4,000 Soviet rubles, and the Lada 2101 car then cost 6,000 even a car such a machine could not buy for Olympic gold, in which it would still not fit. This is how our athletes were valued, they traveled on the bare patriotism. And now the players are kicking the ball for millions of dollars and what's the use of it?
Still watching this in 2018...30 years later and just as incredible as it was then! No knee wraps or sleeves......Ouch! That hurts just watching it!.....
256 and Alexeev (1977) was very easy, I heard. He could lift a lot of more. What I read he has a lot of pure strength. He was perhaps strongest weightlifter ever!
I think you may be right. It is pretty hard to two or three guys together that are all strong enough to lift that much. If the competition isn't stiff enough, the best lifter usually doesn't push himself to the limit.
I think I saw Talakhadze lift ~264 if I'm not mistaken and made it look easy, this one might actually be broken soon ruclips.net/video/eERSK3ezVYA/видео.html
Also look: this is a world record in 2nd lift, then 270 kg were loaded, but Leonid ran out of time. The same thing happened to Alexeev in 1976, when he set a new WR in c&j - 255 kg and was going to lift 260 kg, but the crowd didn't let him come in time.
+Robert Heilmeier I just realised that information I gave about Alexeev and 260 kg may be wrong, it is something I read in his interview, but he liked saying something impressive but not always real to journalists. If you watch the video, you'll see Soviet coach coming to the paltform after 255 and crossing hands, saying 'no'. Information about Taranenko is taken from the Lift Up site: www.chidlovski.net/liftup/a_paul_coffa_about_taranenko.asp
+DDenissssss Thanks for the further clarification and the details concerning Alexeev! My dad used to lift weights pretty successfully in his youth and up to his early thirtees and so as a boy in Bavaria (Germany) in the early Seventiees I used to watch all the (rare) footage of weighlifting in the TV then and all my childhood through the name "Alexeev" - just when he was in his prime - was the eponym for "gentle amazingly strong giant from Russia". I especially recall a live event tv transmission from the US where he made an appearace although one of his hand was injured and he was allowed to do a one-handed lift (I guess it was a snatch?) and we all cheered along with the crowd on tv when he just did it. That being said, his possibly being somewhat untruthful with journalists and bending the facts does not diminish the amazing fact about Taranenko you had posted above, imo.. Best wishes and merry christmas time!
That was absolutely amazing, the bend in that bar was frightening. I noticed the weight disk on the end was spinning during the lift, I bet that didn't help with his balancing?
The highest ratio of all current World Records is 3 (Clean and Jerk 168 kg @ 56 kg weight division). And the guy is 150 cm tall (4'11") and the record is over 11 years old so it's bloody hard to beat.
***** yes Tara 1m77 on match sheet (official Moscow Oly Games book when he was in under 110 class.) for Anton Krastev he claims 1m75...and its true i see him in Sofia !
***** but apparence can differe of true Height...Stephan Botev and Hossein Rezazadeh look short...they have 6' and 6'1" ...bonk or Pavlacek look like littles guys....two exceed 6'2" !!!
IS TARANENKO'S 266 A VALID LIFT ? HE PRESSED OUT AT LEFT ARM AND HIS ELBOW LOCKED OUT A FEW TIMES. ALSO AFTER THE LIFT THEY DIDN'T DISPLAY THE WHITES OR REDS ON THE BOARD ????????
It always left me dumbfounded that when the former weight classes were revised, the world records for those classes were shelved and no longer recognized. What a discredit to these impressive athletes, who did so much to put Olympic lifting on the map. Taranenko, Kurlovich, Pisarenko....all were part of the near legendary Soviet team that dominated the sport for years and brought us some of the most exciting moments in lifting history. The lifters of the '70s and '80s will forever be my favorites (I don't even follow the current crop now), and as far as I'm concerned, this record IS the gold standard.
Its on of best person in personal life.i confirm....and keep at mind its a normal 5'10" guy...giant for his strenght but he have same height of normal guy .the Mike Tyson if lifters .lol a true exemple for all little men with dream to be super heavy weight champ !!!! TARANENKO...(with Krastev Reding and haman and a few other) give hope for all lifters...
Leonid Taranenko didn't compete in Seoul so that he did all his best there in the same year. I imagine what would happen if Bulgarian team didn't fail the tests in Seoul - Taranenko, Krastev and Kurlovich all together powerful as never! I think we would see c&j about 270 kg. The same thing in 110 class with Stefan Botev.
@@sylotiboy4166 It was a press out. The fact that the judges didn't catch it, doesn't change that. As impressive as the lift is, it is an ugly lift. Happy that Lasha will soon make this lift unimportant.
@@Alnivol666 Saying that Lasha will make this lift unimportant is stupid. Even if Lasha would beat this lift, that wouldn't make this lift unimportant. It's history of weightlifting.
@@Alnivol666 Nope. This is sports. In sports what counts is what the judges decide in the spot, not what you or me judge years later, even if the judges' decission was incorrect. It's the same with football, it happens all the time with penalties not seen by the referees. These decissions can turn the score to one side or the opposite. I hope my bad English is understood.
@rusmex19881991 Hi there, yes they did load the bar but he didn't come out to take the lift. Zak' lifted 212.5kg, then 217.5kg then missed the jerk at 220kg. Kurl' lifted 220kg then 230kg like toothpicks then declined third. His snatches were very easy- 180kg, 185kg then 190kg with customary twisting to the right when recovering with weight. Kind regards
Не даром Леониду Тараненко снилось : он поднимает штангу , а гриф ломается ! Вес просто чудовищный - то , что было в подходе на 245 кг и 266 кг - разница колоссальная , и впрямь - гриф угрожающе выгнулся !
На Олимпиаде в Токио этот вес скорее всего перебьет Лаша Талахадзе. Ну, или повторит, как минимум. Сейчас за каждый мировой рекорд дают неплохие деньги, поэтому по чуть-чуть повышают сумму. 264 кг он поднял и с запасом, думаю, Талахадзе может поднять 270 на олимпиаде, если захочет.
When he's catching the clean he raises his elbows up, which lifts his shoulders and makes it so the bar is caught on his shoulder muscles instead of landing on the clavicle.
Torin Rudeen Still part of the weight rests on the clavicle. It depends a lot on the shoulder muscle mass. For those where the clavicles gets the brunt of the weight, as they lift more and more, a thick layer of tissue builds up softening the effect. I know this because I used to practice weightlifting and my trainer had such a thick callus that it looked like a growth.
The story behind this lift is excellent. Some 2-3 days before the event, the Soviet coach (Alexei Medvedev) told the organizer (Paul Coffa) that Taranenko was not going to beyond 240 Kilos in the C&J and 190 Kilos in the snatch. That night, Coffa took out Taranenko, Kurlovich, Zakharevich, to a fancy car dealership in the area. Coffa jokingly bet that if Taranenko broke any sort of world record in his lifts, he'd give him a Lamborghini. The night before the competition, at a coffee shop in Canberra, Coffa told Taranenko that he'd give me a good amount of money if he broke a world record or more. The three lifters got very interested and Taranenko began negotiating for more $$, if he broke more world records. They finally agreed on Taranenko breaking 2 world records. The next day at the competition, Taranenko changes the plan set by his coach and goes on to lift 210 in the snatch, 266 in the C&J, without Medvedev even knowing that his lifters made such a deal. After Taranenko lifted 266, Coffa went to him and said "Double money if you hit 270". Taranenko said "what, yes we go" and 270Kg was loaded. Unfortunately, Taranenko ran out of time and that attempt didn't happen. Full text of the story here: www.chidlovski.net/liftup/a_paul_coffa_about_taranenko.asp
Georgia’s Lasha Talakhadse just lifted 267kg so he has broken Taranenko’s 266kg long standing unofficial WR but Lasha’s lift is also unofficial because he did it training
As of today that world record is 32 years old it is still has not been broken that man was ahead of his time no steroids nothing just think if he was lifting today he would probably break 600 lb
Taranenko was an absolute monster. He used to do jump squats with 120kgs and 3x300kg fronts for with three second pauses. Sadly we will never know of his true strength as he never maxed out in training and was only really challenged by kurlovich at the time. He was planning to hit 270 in Athens but never competed.
Леонид Тараненко один из величайших тяжело атлетов его труд и вклад в тяжелую атлетику невозможно оценить. Со слов самого атлета ему за этот рекорд дали всего лишь 4000 советских рублей, а автомобиль лада 2101 стоил тогда 6000 даже машину такую машину не мог купить за олимпийское золото, в которой он бы все равно не поместился. Вот так ценили наших спортсменов, выезжали на голом патриотизме. А сейчас футболисты пинают мяч за миллионы долларов США а что с них толку.
Он выступал в категории «свыше 110 кг», сейчас она называется «свыше 109 кг», так ведь 110 кг - это и есть больше 109 кг! Этот рекорд должен быть защитан и в современной системе!
Unbelievable. I remember when Aleexev lifted the first 500 lb. clean and jerk. Luckily I was backstage with my coach and was able to be the second person to shake Leonid's hand. What is thie limit for humans on this lift? What could they do if they didn't take steroids?
*"Leonid Arkadevich Taranenko is a former Soviet/Belarusian weightlifter and coach. His 266 kg clean and jerk in 1988 is the heaviest lift in competition, though it is no longer an official world record due to subsequent restructuring of weight classes."*
*How does this OFFICIAL lift simply DISAPPEAR from records because of the "restructuring of weight classes"? Absurd!*
Он выступал в категории «свыше 110 кг», сейчас она называется «свыше 109 кг», так ведь 110 кг - это и есть больше 109 кг! Этот рекорд должен быть защитан и в современной системе! Полностью с вами согласен!
@@Slava9168 😃👍
Lasha did 267 kg today
@@anthead7405 WHOA!!! Thanks for telling me. I had to go find the video. He's amazing!!
ruclips.net/video/wOotbKjPdNY/видео.html
@@anthead7405 как думаешь какой подъём чище?
records are normally broken at the olympics or the world championship, but this one was at the SAMBOY CHIPS CUP
@Mario Cantani Anabolic potatoes.
Lol))))
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@@АлександрПантелеев-п3н LOL
not even a belt or sleeves, this guy is an absolute beast
+Wologan B. lots of weightlifters wear a belt on the clean and jerk
Wologan B. They don't wear sleeves but I definitely often see them wearing belts. Just watch the Olympics that are on right now.
I can confirm...its the strongest lifter of all times..(he was able to clean/jerk over 250kgs at more 40 years(and Tara smoked between 30 and 40.cigaret per day .)
Naim Suleymanoglu is the strongest lifter of all time (509 pt Sinclair Coefficient). Taranenko's best performance (this one) puts him in 26th place with 480 pt Sinclair Coefficient so he cannot be considered the strongest of all time. We can say that he lifted the greatest amount of weight in a competition but even then, Pisarenko did lift 265 kg and weighed less than Taranenko. Pisarenko reached 484 pts (12th place) when he lifted 265 kg.
Don Derondon naim was a dwarf pretty much, the weight had to travel a very small distance. Obviously still extremely storng but i do not consider him the strongest.
Lift the weight of three adult men off the floor and over your head, breaking your own world record, and walk off stage without even acknowledging the audience. That's *style*.
That's not style. That's weird!
That's steroids.
@@lh1690 Other steroid users don't ignore the audience though...
I respect his style.
@@lh1690 you mean, like in any sports on an international level since the 50s ? Well, some guys actually played with the audience since then ...
That's a clean and jerk with 6 45 lb plates on each side. If I saw someone do that at the gym, I would shit myself.
xridethelightningx id be impressed if i saw someone at my gym hit 3 plates lmao
xridethelightningx im kinda late but outside of the USA, red plates = 25 kg or around 55 lbs
Yes the red indicates that it is 55 lbs or 25 kgs
Taranenko 266kg November 26th 1988, Canberra, Australia. Still the heaviest C&J ever lifted in official competition, following Lasha Talakhadze 265kg C&J WR at Tokyo Olympics on August 4th 2021.
Lasha could have done it, he's just teasing us
he will lift that next year, and in 2 years he will break the record, he just breaks records by 1 kilos so that he gets the bonus on every record break!
267 ✅ 17 December, 2021
That legendary c&j was made by Taranenko on my birthday!
Incredible focus and control. And no fanfare after the lift. Drugs or not, this was an amazing performance.
All time best C&J lifters:
1.) Taranenko 266 kg (1988)
2.) Pisarenko 265 kg (1984)
3.) Rezazadeh 263 kg (263,5 kg) (2004)= current WR
4.) Chemerkin 262,5 kg (1997)
5.) Didyk 261 kg (1983)
6.) Marchuk 260 kg (1982)
7.) Kurlovich 260 kg (1983)
8.) Nerlinger 260 kg (1988)
9.) Weller 260 kg (1998)
10.) Hyun Kim 260 kg (2000)
11.) Scerbatihs 260 kg (2003)
12.) Steiner 258 kg (2008)
13.) Aleksejev 256 kg (1977)
needs an update w/ Lasha on it..
Lasha 264kg 2019 , Lasha will out lift every lifter you mentioned Tex , Lasha has snatch 220kg twice and he has snatch 2015 or more countless times. Lasha will go down as not only the greatest super but greatest lifter of all time.
@dreamx3mlegend 500kg total from lasha in the next few years tho
@@martinfiay8908 isn't the greatest super by default the overall best? ;)
@@martinfiay8908 this list is about C&J, not about snatch. Though Lasha should be on this list with his 264 kg, and no doubt he is a great lifter. But Taranenko's 266 kg is still the best lift ever.
I was fortunate enough to have been there to see that live. Awesome lift!
is you serious?
@@rickp2965 it's actually "are you serious"
@@generalkaboom6642
No shit Sherlock.
IS TARANENKO'S 266 A VALID LIFT ? HE PRESSED OUT AT LEFT ARM AND HIS ELBOW LOCKED OUT A FEW TIMES. ALSO AFTER THE LIFT THEY DIDN'T DISPLAY THE WHITES OR REDS ON THE BOARD ????????
@@taylantozoglu6053 Выключи капс и иди под струю мойся, дурачок
I don´t care what the stupid cheating International Weightlifting Federation says... this is the clean and jerk record ! period !
+Leopoldo Bolanos It didn't count as a record?
they "lost" the record registry and decided they where all nule. of course those records where not american... all BS
Is the current record in 264 kg by Lovchev or 263 kg by Rezazadeh?
+Кирилл Исаков
REZAZADEH lovchev was caught drugging
IS TARANENKO'S 266 A VALID LIFT ? HE PRESSED OUT AT LEFT ARM AND HIS ELBOW LOCKED OUT A FEW TIMES. ALSO AFTER THE LIFT THEY DIDN'T DISPLAY THE WHITES OR REDS ON THE BOARD ????????
The REAL C&J World Record..
Tonio Yahn not according to the Olympics, Taranenko used to compete for the USSR but he never did more than 247.5kg I think at the olympics.
The olympic record is 263.5kg set in Athens 2004 by Hossein Rezazadeh of Iran
Tonio Yahn said World Record no Olympic, he is right Taranenko has the heaviest C & J of all time, but after Weight Categories change it is no longer recognized, which is absurd
Gustavo Bedoya
Very absurd .
@@FirebirdCamaro1220 247.6kg to 266kg is a big difference. Maybe the weights for the 266kg lift were borrowed from Brad Castleberry.
@@lh1690 you're joking right?
Legendary Leonid Taranenko! World record that lasts more than 30 years!
I almost stood up applauded out of my chair at the end too
This world record was official. They removed the weight classes of his time and replaced them with new ones, which is the one and only reason they made his world record unofficial, which is utter bullshit. Rezazadeh's record of 263.5 kg is one of the highest lifts ever, but Taranenko's lift is just higher.
Agamisou tourkoalvane!!!
The Soviets fucked over their athletes left and right: pumped em full of roids--this guy included--and then punished him when he didn't tow the line. That's why he's lifting here in the potato chip classic. Whole system was bat shit crazy. Still is with Putin. Country is a giant prison. Even Alexeev kept upping his world records in half kilo increments so he could make a decent buck. Sad
Woodchopper777 now unofficial WR is 267 ruclips.net/video/qYGh-SKNxBA/видео.html
@@nicholasschroeder3678 Yeah that's true. Unlike honest heroes like Lance Armstrong and Marion Jones etc. etc.
@@georgemelitsis2607 Yeah, but they CHOSE to juice. They didn't have a gun to their head. So, it's worse.
the IWF restructed its weight classes in 1993 and 1998 nullifying all previous records. But Taranenko's 266 is still the heaviest weight ever lifted.
8 years later, thought I add some important updates to this world record from 33 years ago: Nothing Has Changed.
@@highviewbarbell it will change, Lasha just recently did 270kg in training with ease and an actual non press out jerk. He will break this record
@@MrShenanigans28
Well, good luck to him 👍🙂
If he can and will do it officially on tornament 👌
@@ThePower87 there is no if lol he will
Not anymore eyy
Watched this video on the way to the gym then I turned around and went back home
Yeah,i know...it’s kind of depressing...you understand that no matter what you do,no matter how hard you try,you’ll never as strong as he is.
Lol where do the thumbs down come from on a video like this? Has to be jealousy. Its not like this is a beiber video. Its a showcase of the most elite athletic display of power in the world. Man..people really get childish and pathetic when they're sitting in front of their keyboards. Makes me embarrassed to be human
Exactly! All I can think is cause ppl think it’s a press out 🤷🏻♂️
At the moment, his record holds 32 years! This is awesome!!
Along with Eddie Hall’s 500kg deadlift, this is one of the greatest feats of strength I’ve ever, or probably will ever see!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Presumably you mean Eddie's lift as a first reaching 500kg barrier, since Hafthor quite some time ago lifted more.
@@bobibufi1389 “presumably” ☝🏾🤓
@@bobibufi1389no one cares. Eddie is stronger
2019 and this is still the record
Michael Mazzarella Not anymore. Lasha talakhadze did 267 a few weeks ago
I did watch the video of him doing 267 but that was in training only-although I think we both agree that Lasha will break this record
After years of watching Olympic lifters I can only begin to comprehend how much power and strength it takes to clean and jerk 585lbs pounds. Most people won't understand what they're witnessing here.
WOW! Where can I buy some Samboy Chips?!
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Lol, the same thought)) the greatest chips ad ever))
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World record (now unofficial) by lifting a barbell in the clean and jerk belongs to Soviet weightlifter Leonid Taranenko. In November 1988 in Canberra (Australia) he was able to take the weight of 266 kg.
However, in 1992, the IWF (international weightlifting Federation) has changed weight category, thus would be "erased" this world record. But in the book of Guinness world records and today he is considered unsurpassed.
the only challenger today is Lasha who snatches 218kg wr but has snatched 220kg twice , before divsion changes.
It was a press out. If it was a more important event, the judges would have never given him the lift. Still impressive though, but I wouldn't say it's a valid lift.
@@Alnivol666 if it was a press out, wouldn't that take more power?
@@josephm.noviello1996 What? Wtf cares? A press out makes the lift invalid. Those are the rules.
game over... Lasha Talakhadze 267 kg... 17.12.2021...
the bodyweight difference between Lasham talakhadze and taranenko ?
Record still stands
ruclips.net/video/s8m30snFGsg/видео.html
are you sure about that?
Good lord he is powerful
my grandpa is Leonid's coach!!!!
O.O well done X2. One for Leonid and the other one for his grandD lovely.
Да, это правда, Евгения.
@John Connor Tarasnenkos his coach was Ivan Loginovich. Read in Wikipedia. He was a grandfather of this girl. Her name is Evgenia Loginovich.
Awesome!
Our first names are spelled nearly identical haha. Evgenia and Eugenio
Rezazadeh is also referred to by weightlifting commentators as "the strongest man in the world", primarily due to his world records in the olympics.
He currently holds the world record in weightlifting's super heavyweight class in the clean and jerk and total.
Leonid Taranenko 266Kg
his record is not recognized by the International Weightlifting Federation.
Hossein Rezazadeh 270kg Front squat record is not recognized too.
From Coma 270kg clean? There's quite a few people who have front squatted 270kg.
+From Coma thats bcause the front squat is not an olympic lift moron
Razazadeh has not a single record. He only has the C&Y left, but that was below Taranenko, who still holds both the C&Y and total record in the open class.
Резадзаде отстой. Тараненко тигр и останется им. Черти вечно гноили Советских спортсменов.
Крепкого Здоровья Вам, Уважаемый Богатырь-Леонид!
I still cannot understand why this man and Piserenco are not in the record books as they both lifted more than Rezazedeh??? Super heavyweight means just that doesnt it? He isnt even listed in the lower weight class. Someone please explain this to me.
Simple. Steroids.
@skirts365 Exactly, let's not pretend today's Athletes aren't juiced and roided to the gills either.
the weight categories have changed
MrMegadipper They’re not; there is strict testing nowadays.
As for the original question, perhaps the event wasn’t recognized. Not all events are officially recognized by the IWF, and lifts in those events are not registered in IWF records.
Vladimir Yemelyanov Yes, I know, but the original comment mentioned Rezazdeh, so I think he meant it wasn’t registered at the time they both competed, long before the weight classes were changed and the records expunged.
Long ago, a few short years after Alekseyev first lifted 500 lbs, I had been powerlifting and Olympic lifting a short time (148 lb class) and one day tried just rolling a bar loaded to 500 lbs a couple feet. I gained a whole other magnitude of awe for what he’d accomplished. Everyone interested in lifting should try something similar just to see how insanely heavy that much weight is, especially the thought of trying to put it overhead.
30 years later. Still the world record.
thank u for uploading ❤
The strongest man in the world, no doubt!
The strongest man probably Lasha. Snatch=223kg, C&J=265kg
2021, post-Tokyo Olympics. Still Unbroken Record!! Leonid and Lasha both legends of the sport! Lasha most likely will break it.
Just did today
for English speakers at the bottom of my comment translation
Леонид Тараненко один из величайших тяжело атлетов его труд и вклад в тяжелую атлетику невозможно оценить. Со слов самого атлета ему за этот рекорд дали всего лишь 4000 советских рублей, а автомобиль лада 2101 стоил тогда 6000 даже машину такую машину не мог купить за олимпийское золото, в которой он бы все равно не поместился. Вот так ценили наших спортсменов, выезжали на голом патриотизме. А сейчас футболисты пинают мяч за миллионы долларов США а что с них толку.
Leonid Taranenko one of the greatest hard athletes his work and contribution to weightlifting can not be estimated. According to the athlete himself, for this record they gave only 4,000 Soviet rubles, and the Lada 2101 car then cost 6,000 even a car such a machine could not buy for Olympic gold, in which it would still not fit. This is how our athletes were valued, they traveled on the bare patriotism. And now the players are kicking the ball for millions of dollars and what's the use of it?
Нормально ценили спортсменов, они делали свою работу, как и обычные рабочие. Это сейчас все зажравшиеся.
I love his humility after the lift...Hold it high in success, then walk back to his coaches.
Alexander Kurlivich standing in the background. The Two Greatest Weightlifters of All Time
Finally this record has been broken today
The stronger man in the world, no doubt!
Check NAIM SÜLEYMANOĞLU
Still watching this in 2018...30 years later and just as incredible as it was then!
No knee wraps or sleeves......Ouch! That hurts just watching it!.....
Soon Lasha Talakhadze will break the record
Andro Jologua
I agreed👍🏼
Leonid Taranenko the best !
Lasha is a Great lifter.. Honour to the one Who deserve it...
The most powerfull.powerlifter is NAIM SÜLEYMANOĞLU
@@beastturk7446 rest in peace Naim Suleymanoglu...
267 lifted by Lasha today, game over
256 and Alexeev (1977) was very easy, I heard. He could lift a lot of more. What I read he has a lot of pure strength. He was perhaps strongest weightlifter ever!
Here's to you, LT! Still the best ever, after all these years!
Probably will remain the "unofficial" world record for decades to come. 586 lbs. OMG!!!!
I think you may be right. It is pretty hard to two or three guys together that are all strong enough to lift that much. If the competition isn't stiff enough, the best lifter usually doesn't push himself to the limit.
you mean official
Kind of. It was official, but since they mucked with the weight classes, it's not official official any more. Still the most overall.
I think I saw Talakhadze lift ~264 if I'm not mistaken and made it look easy, this one might actually be broken soon ruclips.net/video/eERSK3ezVYA/видео.html
Talakhadze did 267 on training. There is video too
Also look: this is a world record in 2nd lift, then 270 kg were loaded, but Leonid ran out of time. The same thing happened to Alexeev in 1976, when he set a new WR in c&j - 255 kg and was going to lift 260 kg, but the crowd didn't let him come in time.
+DDenissssss Thanks for the information..it puts this already amazing feat in an even more impressive context.
+Robert Heilmeier I just realised that information I gave about Alexeev and 260 kg may be wrong, it is something I read in his interview, but he liked saying something impressive but not always real to journalists. If you watch the video, you'll see Soviet coach coming to the paltform after 255 and crossing hands, saying 'no'.
Information about Taranenko is taken from the Lift Up site: www.chidlovski.net/liftup/a_paul_coffa_about_taranenko.asp
+DDenissssss Thanks for the further clarification and the details concerning Alexeev! My dad used to lift weights pretty successfully in his youth and up to his early thirtees and so as a boy in Bavaria (Germany) in the early Seventiees I used to watch all the (rare) footage of weighlifting in the TV then and all my childhood through the name "Alexeev" - just when he was in his prime - was the eponym for "gentle amazingly strong giant from Russia". I especially recall a live event tv transmission from the US where he made an appearace although one of his hand was injured and he was allowed to do a one-handed lift (I guess it was a snatch?) and we all cheered along with the crowd on tv when he just did it. That being said, his possibly being somewhat untruthful with journalists and bending the facts does not diminish the amazing fact about Taranenko you had posted above, imo.. Best wishes and merry christmas time!
TARANENKO THE MONSTER!
AND THE GREAT KURLOVICH IN THE BACK....RIP...THE SOVIETS WERE THE STRONGEST
Nothing short of absolute awesomeness.. 👍👍
209+266 total 475 had been world record till 2017 world championship, for 30 years!!
210+266
The récord that has stood the test of time... Epic....
That was absolutely amazing, the bend in that bar was frightening.
I noticed the weight disk on the end was spinning during the lift, I bet that didn't help with his balancing?
Damn that bar bounced like 4 inches when it was on his shoulders. what a beast!
Леонид это гордость СССР. И я его уважаю очень.
ТАРАНЕНКО ГОРДОСТЬ БЕЛАРУСИ !
Такой страны нет. Тараненко гордость Беларуси
@@IFTize тараненко это СССР.
поддерживаю Вас
@@IFTize не Беларуссии а СССР..свидетельство о рождении у него какое?Вот и хрен Вам...да и года выступления посмотрите...знаток хренов...
The highest ratio of all current World Records is 3 (Clean and Jerk 168 kg @ 56 kg weight division). And the guy is 150 cm tall (4'11") and the record is over 11 years old so it's bloody hard to beat.
He is superior ....nobody have this level... lonely Pisarenko can be compare with him...
***** exact...and his perfect legs/arms lenght and weight( 320 lbs...5'10"...like Krastev the other absolute recordman)
***** yes Tara 1m77 on match sheet (official Moscow Oly Games book when he was in under 110 class.) for Anton Krastev he claims 1m75...and its true i see him in Sofia !
***** but apparence can differe of true Height...Stephan Botev and Hossein Rezazadeh look short...they have 6' and 6'1" ...bonk or Pavlacek look like littles guys....two exceed 6'2" !!!
alan levy all sources say 6 foot
IS TARANENKO'S 266 A VALID LIFT ? HE PRESSED OUT AT LEFT ARM AND HIS ELBOW LOCKED OUT A FEW TIMES. ALSO AFTER THE LIFT THEY DIDN'T DISPLAY THE WHITES OR REDS ON THE BOARD ????????
It always left me dumbfounded that when the former weight classes were revised, the world records for those classes were shelved and no longer recognized. What a discredit to these impressive athletes, who did so much to put Olympic lifting on the map. Taranenko, Kurlovich, Pisarenko....all were part of the near legendary Soviet team that dominated the sport for years and brought us some of the most exciting moments in lifting history. The lifters of the '70s and '80s will forever be my favorites (I don't even follow the current crop now), and as far as I'm concerned, this record IS the gold standard.
Lasha is coming for this world record soon, I bet he's gonna hit 270 kg some day
That's brilliant. So many years of work goes into that!
Semms like a humble gentle giant :)
Its on of best person in personal life.i confirm....and keep at mind its a normal 5'10" guy...giant for his strenght but he have same height of normal guy .the Mike Tyson if lifters .lol a true exemple for all little men with dream to be super heavy weight champ !!!! TARANENKO...(with Krastev Reding and haman and a few other) give hope for all lifters...
alan levy he is 6ft
Leonid Taranenko didn't compete in Seoul so that he did all his best there in the same year. I imagine what would happen if Bulgarian team didn't fail the tests in Seoul - Taranenko, Krastev and Kurlovich all together powerful as never! I think we would see c&j about 270 kg. The same thing in 110 class with Stefan Botev.
До сих пор все могут только смотреть на этот вес . Тараненко самый сильный в мире штангист .
ЛАША БЛИЗОК.
@@paullukianov5217 нет
@@ванькаиванов-г6к да, и очень :)
This guy is a beast. No knee wraps or nothing. And he's tall as hell.
he is a short arse.. i met him in melbourne a few days after this
for someone to say that he pressed it out, it makes him EVEN STRONGER LOL
ShiftySkunk
That was not a press out had he pressed out his lift would have been invalid but it wasn’t
@@sylotiboy4166 It was a press out. The fact that the judges didn't catch it, doesn't change that. As impressive as the lift is, it is an ugly lift. Happy that Lasha will soon make this lift unimportant.
@@Alnivol666 Saying that Lasha will make this lift unimportant is stupid. Even if Lasha would beat this lift, that wouldn't make this lift unimportant. It's history of weightlifting.
@@sergiotl7378 Yes...apparently a bad lift by today's standards should be remembered. Why? Because reasons apparently. It was a press out.
@@Alnivol666 Nope. This is sports. In sports what counts is what the judges decide in the spot, not what you or me judge years later, even if the judges' decission was incorrect. It's the same with football, it happens all the time with penalties not seen by the referees. These decissions can turn the score to one side or the opposite. I hope my bad English is understood.
Fantastic video! I especially like the pat on the back by Kurlovich offering congratulations.
yes this was the second attempt- they also loaded up 270kg but Leonid declined
267 by lasha. I wonder what Taranenko would say after reacting to Lasha. Someone get on it.
MATE! just enjoy the vid that clearly demonstrates the greatest weight ever lifted in history- kind regards
When i was youg,i clean/jerk with awful difficulty 430 lbs ..all my spirit was with leonid (same height and weight than me 1m80 150kg 5'11'' 355lbs)
Anyone else feel like eating some Samboy Chips right now?
@rusmex19881991
Hi there, yes they did load the bar but he didn't come out to take the lift. Zak' lifted 212.5kg, then 217.5kg then missed the jerk at 220kg. Kurl' lifted 220kg then 230kg like toothpicks then declined third. His snatches were very easy- 180kg, 185kg then 190kg with customary twisting to the right when recovering with weight. Kind regards
Lasha TALAKHADZE WILL SOON WIN THE THIS RECORD
What is the situation?
@@flyingspaghetti963 i am expected record in Tokyo
They wiped all of the previous world record when they rewrote the weight classes in 1997.
До сих пор не побит этот рекорд.
Не даром Леониду Тараненко снилось : он поднимает штангу , а гриф ломается !
Вес просто чудовищный - то , что было в подходе на 245 кг и 266 кг - разница колоссальная , и впрямь - гриф угрожающе выгнулся !
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@@НиколайМанонин-э6э БЕЛАРУС МОЛОДЕЦ !!
That is some kick ass advertisement..
sure could go for some samboy chips right now
He told later in the interview that he was able to lift 272 kg back then. I believe that.
The 266 kg jerk might be a no-lift with today's judges.
It would be 100% this should not be a record
Fantastic! Still the record --- the greatest Clean & Jerk ever.
Лучший среди лучших! Мировой рекорд не побит.
На Олимпиаде в Токио этот вес скорее всего перебьет Лаша Талахадзе. Ну, или повторит, как минимум. Сейчас за каждый мировой рекорд дают неплохие деньги, поэтому по чуть-чуть повышают сумму. 264 кг он поднял и с запасом, думаю, Талахадзе может поднять 270 на олимпиаде, если захочет.
MrMyrisch Ну что, побил?))
Иван Тихомиров что ты хи-хикаешь как гиена? Олимпиаду перенесли
He's casually breaks a world record, then just goes about his business
How his clavicle didn't shatter I'll never know
When he's catching the clean he raises his elbows up, which lifts his shoulders and makes it so the bar is caught on his shoulder muscles instead of landing on the clavicle.
Torin Rudeen
Still part of the weight rests on the clavicle. It depends a lot on the shoulder muscle mass. For those where the clavicles gets the brunt of the weight, as they lift more and more, a thick layer of tissue builds up softening the effect.
I know this because I used to practice weightlifting and my trainer had such a thick callus that it looked like a growth.
The story behind this lift is excellent. Some 2-3 days before the event, the Soviet coach (Alexei Medvedev) told the organizer (Paul Coffa) that Taranenko was not going to beyond 240 Kilos in the C&J and 190 Kilos in the snatch. That night, Coffa took out Taranenko, Kurlovich, Zakharevich, to a fancy car dealership in the area.
Coffa jokingly bet that if Taranenko broke any sort of world record in his lifts, he'd give him a Lamborghini. The night before the competition, at a coffee shop in Canberra, Coffa told Taranenko that he'd give me a good amount of money if he broke a world record or more. The three lifters got very interested and Taranenko began negotiating for more $$, if he broke more world records. They finally agreed on Taranenko breaking 2 world records.
The next day at the competition, Taranenko changes the plan set by his coach and goes on to lift 210 in the snatch, 266 in the C&J, without Medvedev even knowing that his lifters made such a deal. After Taranenko lifted 266, Coffa went to him and said "Double money if you hit 270". Taranenko said "what, yes we go" and 270Kg was loaded. Unfortunately, Taranenko ran out of time and that attempt didn't happen.
Full text of the story here: www.chidlovski.net/liftup/a_paul_coffa_about_taranenko.asp
КАПЕЦ у меня чуть слеза не потекла от счастья когда он поднял :DDD
Lasha Talakhadze will break it down soon 🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪
вот такие вот легендарные чемпионы были в СССР!
change in bodyweight classes in 1993- 110kg plus was changed to 108kg + and then eventually to the 105kg+ class
made in USSR!
Georgia’s Lasha Talakhadse just lifted 267kg so he has broken Taranenko’s 266kg long standing unofficial WR but Lasha’s lift is also unofficial because he did it training
I never heard that
@@keithgreenan1850ruclips.net/video/f9XRkDSe4zA/видео.html
"Walks in, looks around, lifts weight, goes out, takes a dump"
Best regards from Lasha 267kg!
Если бы это было сегодня, то вес был бы не взят! По-нескольку дожимов на каждую руку :) и , допинг контроля считай нет! ... ! ( промолчу )
As of today that world record is 32 years old it is still has not been broken that man was ahead of his time no steroids nothing just think if he was lifting today he would probably break 600 lb
იმედია ლაშა ტალახაძე დაამხობს ამ რეკორდსაც.
hope L. talahadze will beat that record
Надеюсь Л.Талахадзе побьет этот рекорд.
Taranenko was an absolute monster. He used to do jump squats with 120kgs and 3x300kg fronts for with three second pauses. Sadly we will never know of his true strength as he never maxed out in training and was only really challenged by kurlovich at the time. He was planning to hit 270 in Athens but never competed.
Не превзойденый!
Леонид Тараненко один из величайших тяжело атлетов его труд и вклад в тяжелую атлетику невозможно оценить. Со слов самого атлета ему за этот рекорд дали всего лишь 4000 советских рублей, а автомобиль лада 2101 стоил тогда 6000 даже машину такую машину не мог купить за олимпийское золото, в которой он бы все равно не поместился. Вот так ценили наших спортсменов, выезжали на голом патриотизме. А сейчас футболисты пинают мяч за миллионы долларов США а что с них толку.
@@АнтонСтоцкий Футбол - зрелище для рабов
@@olegkuzmenko3420 согласен, примерно как и профессиональный бокс.
Он выступал в категории «свыше 110 кг», сейчас она называется «свыше 109 кг», так ведь 110 кг - это и есть больше 109 кг! Этот рекорд должен быть защитан и в современной системе!
USSR POWER
+Валерий Муравицкий не ,славик повер)
He is belorussian.
славик повер,тон юссср) есть так же польские суператлеты например)
Mexico lol. Nobody cares about you
Unbelievable. I remember when Aleexev lifted the first 500 lb. clean and jerk. Luckily I was backstage with my coach and was able to be the second person to shake Leonid's hand. What is thie limit for humans on this lift? What could they do if they didn't take steroids?
Lasha is coming