For those who don't know, many eastern block countries boycotted the 1984 olympics held in the us, that's why the winning total for those games is almost 30kg lighter than the previous ones.
I believe they did it over the USA’s boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, which in turn was caused by the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Am I right?
What's amazing is Vasily Aleksyeev Clean and Jerk 45 years ago was 255 kg so the record has only improved 10 kg in all that time. Goes to show how amazing that lift was all those years ago.
His motivation? Steiner lost his wife one year ago in a car accident und promised to win this thing for her. Wiki: "Steiner stood on the medalists' podium with a photo of his late wife, who would otherwise have accompanied him to the Games."
Как же я обожал смотреть тяжёлую атлетику в их эпоху ! Эпоху настоящих богатырей ! Да и сейчас , если выпадает удовольствие посмотреть , никогда не упускаю эту возможность !!!
I remember reading about Vasily Aleksyeev as a kid -- he broke the record, a record 80 times! And there was that one time when he raised one leg up and held the weight with only one leg on the ground after finishing his lift! Now that is something!!! His coach scolded him for doing so! :-) courtesy Sportstar magazine
The reason he broke the record 80 times is that the Soviet Union paid him a bonus for every world record, so he would break his old record 1/4 kilo at a time.
The awe from the crowd was audible. Watching some of his older videos I think Reza may have been the greatest at the ‘clean’, even better than Lasha (though the latter is the goat IMO).
@@seesidesummerhouse6112 Time and types of equipment and preparation have changed and evolved. I have no doubt that if Rezazade's prime was right now he would give a hell of a hard time to Lasha in every tornumant and would probably lift more than his records in his own time.
I was a pre-teen and playing with my neighbor friends in my backyard when my father called to me that Vasiley A. was going to attempt to put up an official 500 c&j. Sure enough, I watched it live on TV. Ken Patera, from right here in Minnesota,was at that time the best US lifter, also in that league, but missing the highest stage.
getstrongby40 yeah he promised his wife before she died that he would be an Olympic champion. He almost bombed out of the snatch and then he had to jump 9 kilos (20 pounds) in the clean and jerk to catch up to win.
Matthias Steiner lifted like I've never seen any human being lift in my life. He was such a compelling and amazing but sad story. He will always be THIS LIFTERS favorite moment in sports.
Lifters look at weight lifted, technique ,or clues to be a better lifter. Teenage idiot gamers , sitting in their mom's basement in their underwear comment on background music , or one of the greatest lifters in history's singlet . Keep up the good work boys .
Alexeev was the first to officially c&j 500 pounds (Columbus, Ohio, 1970). From what I saw of Talakhadze hoisting 583 in Tokyo, he might be the first to reach the 600lb (272k) barrier.
Not only should you respect them, you should bow down to them. Whatever your chosen sport is, it’s worthless compared to these gods. Puny ass weakling.
Interesting to note here that the snatch weight climbed much faster over the years ,while in four decades the 255 clean and jerk of the Soviet lifter Alexeev pretty much the bench mark , some full 40 years later the record in the clean and jerk is 266 kg a mere 11 kilos over the 1976 record , shows you just how far ahead the Soviet was .
don't forget the fact that contact at the hip wasn't allowed in the 1970's. might be more important during snatch than during c&j thus explaining a larger improvement in snatch since allowing hip contact?
1976 Vasiliy Alexeev - 440kg total 1980 Sultan Rakhmanov - 440kg total 1984 Dean Lukin - 412.5kg total 1988 Alexander Kurlovich - 462.5kg total 1992 Alexander Kurlovich - 450kg total 1996 Andrey Chemerkin - 457.5kg total 2000 Hossein Rezazadeh - 472.5kg total 2004 Hossein Rezazadeh - 473.5kg total 2008 Matthias Steiner - 461kg total 2012 Behdad Salimi - 455kg total 2016 Lasha Talakhadze - 473kg total 2021 Lasha Talakhadze - 488kg total
Soviet weightlifters forever. Pisarenko's clean and jerk 265 in 1984 at Friendship Games. OMG! Vasiliy Alexeev 80! world records! Kurlovich! Taranenko 266 kg. USSR rulzzzzz
no matter what weight may be lifted over head in the future Vasiliy Alexeev will always remain the greatest lifter ever to me , 80 world records , 255 kg clean and jerk that took almost 40 years to be surpassed ,who knows what more he could of done if he was not cut short by inside interests in his home nation . He was forced into retirement . Russia disrespected their greatest national sports hero ever .
+Alex Schonski, I agree with you, 80 wr and ten years of domination. He is hero of weightlifting. David Rigert (USSR) have 50 world records. Historical persons in the sport. Vasiliy told, that in 1980 Olimpic games he was poisoned for Sultan Rahmanov win
Maybe he was poisoned. But what are you talking about disrespect? He is the greatest, and everybody who knows anything about weightlifting will agree with me.
+iskanderzzz, Alexerv died a poor man, he lived like a simple man. In 90's he lost all his money (prizes from USSR) at the bank's colapse. No streets, named for him, no tv shows about, looks like that hero never lived in my country.
Look at the bloody Damn legs in Dean Lukin from the 1984 Olympics. They are absolutely monstrous when comparing to his upper half. Damn near inhuman and more like some rare mutation from inside the womb. Amazing...
Salimi is Very very technic and faster than Reza (close spread between both movments)....but Reza was considerably stronger ! clean and jerk is best absolute strenght evidence
We all watch videos of Olympic lifters training, doing all kinds of assistance exercises. I wonder if any of them do walking with weight overhead to practise that? Most lifters need to do that at the competitions. Just wondering . .
For someone to lift a weight they have previously lifted to win gold. You kind of expect it. For someone to lift more than they ever have to win gold. That's impressive.👍
first guy wins on his fashion style alone
GrungeRockGod He’s sexy and he knows it.
@Hellcat Bass Was the Best.
Borat style!
Vasiley Alexeyev is the only lifter in the video that I recognize. He was featured often on ABC’s Wide World Of Sports back in the ‘70’s.
Alekseev looked Chad as fuck like that. 😅
those '76 singlets look like something out of Borat's wardrobe!
😁
🤣🤣🤣
Alekseyev might as well have lifted naked.
First weightlifter I ever remember.
He won before that 1972 Munich Games.
He is also the first one I remember.
For those who don't know, many eastern block countries boycotted the 1984 olympics held in the us, that's why the winning total for those games is almost 30kg lighter than the previous ones.
I believe they did it over the USA’s boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, which in turn was caused by the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Am I right?
@@thebluerainbowSoviets were there to help, no invasion.
It was 30 kgs heavier at the first place because Soviets just popped whatever drug they could get their hands on. It was almost state policy.
@@enginkaca6971 Looks like the USA.
STEROIDS!!!!@
Wow the last one looks good, oh wait i cant see it because other videos are bloking it, very smart
Marco Garcia the other videos also block the sound! Damn!
Exactly its so annoying! Is there a way of removing them?
@@franksmithfitness777
I think the only way is downloading the video on your own computer and watch it there.
@@Rizemize123
If you're on mobile, just slightly pull the video down and the other ones will fade
Fantastic to see Alekseyev again in 76! A true LEGEND! I never forget his lifts, I was just turning 12 y.o....
What's amazing is Vasily Aleksyeev Clean and Jerk 45 years ago was 255 kg so the record has only improved 10 kg in all that time. Goes to show how amazing that lift was all those years ago.
11kg but yeah, absolute legendary athlete
@@AlbinoJesus true but they were more juiced than today
@@scottessery100 😂👍
Alexiv was my boy. I watched wght lifting a lot.
@@AlbinoJesus Actually I'm correct. The official record is 265kg. by Lasha as Terenenko's 266kg is no longer valid.
Matias Steiner story is quite amazing. He wasnt a serious contender but manage to win the medal with amazing will power
igor4246 Tren
His motivation? Steiner lost his wife one year ago in a car accident und promised to win this thing for her. Wiki: "Steiner stood on the medalists' podium with a photo of his late wife, who would otherwise have accompanied him to the Games."
@@ageispolis746 He has a new chick today, so his dedication for his deceased wife didn't last long
@@ravanpee1325 People are allowed to move on, douchebag. A dead person doesn't give much in the way of companionship.
@@bigwitt187 Yes, he can but he put his dead wife in the window, so no miracle when people talk about his "moving"
Алексееву в свое время не было равных, светлая ему память!
Особенно на Московской Олимпиаде( ПИСАРЕНКО не взяли в команду😢)
Как же я обожал смотреть тяжёлую атлетику в их эпоху ! Эпоху настоящих богатырей ! Да и сейчас , если выпадает удовольствие посмотреть , никогда не упускаю эту возможность !!!
Nyet
Какая была страна, такие были и спортсмены. А сейчас...
I remember reading about Vasily Aleksyeev as a kid -- he broke the record, a record 80 times!
And there was that one time when he raised one leg up and held the weight with only one leg on the ground after finishing his lift! Now that is something!!! His coach scolded him for doing so! :-)
courtesy Sportstar magazine
The reason he broke the record 80 times is that the Soviet Union paid him a bonus for every world record, so he would break his old record 1/4 kilo at a time.
It’s amazing what a good chemist can achieve!
@@sandimiller6465 capitalism!
It was Aleksey Vakhonin who lifted one leg not Vasily Aleksyeev
@@pahom2 Oh! Thanks for correcting -- I do remember seeing the epic picture in Sportstar (a sports magazine) during my school days.
Reza made that 263.5 clean look easier than absolutely anyone.
The awe from the crowd was audible. Watching some of his older videos I think Reza may have been the greatest at the ‘clean’, even better than Lasha (though the latter is the goat IMO).
@@seesidesummerhouse6112 Time and types of equipment and preparation have changed and evolved. I have no doubt that if Rezazade's prime was right now he would give a hell of a hard time to Lasha in every tornumant and would probably lift more than his records in his own time.
4:15 snatch 210kg like nothing.......what a beast
Sean Sheng looked like a warm up 😂
And bro did 263.5 like a savage
He is from Iran. He ended Russian dominance in this field in 2000 and continued.
ruclips.net/video/yLNnT5VPars/видео.html 220 kg snatch by Georgian Talakhadze
@@josephmendes4839 Bro he could have done 300kg or 350kg almost easy and would have made history
And now we have Lasha 🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪 Greatest of all time
In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the German weightlifter was really touching. It was his wife who gave him strength in the sky.
Тяжелую атлетику смотрю с удовольствием, очень трудный и эмоциональный вид спорта.
Выступление Чемеркина помню как сегодня, хотя тогда был еще совсем малой, чуть не плакал от восторга)
A Living of devotion, preparing for this single moment, trying to excel all and yourself.
0:00 Elvis Presley of weightlifting.
2:57. "guapaa"
Nathan Hale it’s russian OPPA
2008 Beijing Olympics is more Pixelated
Because of Made in China Equipment.
I was a pre-teen and playing with my neighbor friends in my backyard when my father called to me that Vasiley A. was going to attempt to put up an official 500 c&j. Sure enough, I watched it live on TV. Ken Patera, from right here in Minnesota,was at that time the best US lifter, also in that league, but missing the highest stage.
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5:17 DAT scream HAHAHAHAHAHA
His wife died months before the competition so he celebrate very emotionally
@@pepinpunzo5848 wow really? It was like he didn't know how to feel
getstrongby40 yeah he promised his wife before she died that he would be an Olympic champion. He almost bombed out of the snatch and then he had to jump 9 kilos (20 pounds) in the clean and jerk to catch up to win.
sounds like a goat being tortured.
@@kooroshrostami27 sounds like an Olympic winner, looser
Matthias Steiner lifted like I've never seen any human being lift in my life.
He was such a compelling and amazing but sad story.
He will always be THIS LIFTERS favorite moment in sports.
He has a new chick today
@@ravanpee1325 So? He doesn’t have to stay alone the rest of his life, duh.
@@ravanpee1325 And!?!
@@zabaleta66 Don't virtue signal with your deceased wife and have a side chick two weeks later
@@ravanpee1325idiot, you make this comment twice on different posts. :) I wish you nothing but the worst.
I never cease to be amazed at the quads on Rahkmanov.
Current day super heavies need to show a bit more to get the ladies back watching the sport.
Lasha in a mankini would put the rating through the roof.
🤣🤣🤣
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Matthias Steiner show us one of the most emotional moments in olympic history.
Admirables ésos forzudos, excelente preparación para lograrlo.
And now... comes the era of LASHA TALAKHADZE FROM GEORGIA 💪👏
edwardmashberg1 you mean 1000lbs
edwardmashberg1 1000 kilos wtf I don’t think you know what a kilo is 😂
@@HammerK99 1000 kilos bet
Josh if you think anyone’s getting 1000 kilos I’ll takes some of the shit your smoking
True clean and Jerk record holder Taraneko 266Kg in 1980s!
Beautifull amazing images on history on Olympic record
Dean Lukin... dear god, this is the first time I see a pair of legs like those. 1:29
All I have to say… amazing how far video quality came in just a decade.
Да, ушли легенды: Жаботинский, Алексеев, Рахманов (великий земляк, хоть бы в родном Днепре в честь него улицу назвал). Всем добрая память, помним.
Власов тоже ушел. А в Днепре вряд ли будут чтить Султана, в Днепропетровске ещё можно было бы надеяться
Неделю назад умер Курлович, ему было всего 56, очень жаль...
@Амантур Мадеев тяжёлая атлетика много покалечила людей....ой как много...
Светлая память!!!!!! Чемпиону
The fact that Vasiliy Alexeev could lift his own belly was amazing enough, never mind the added weight of the bar and the plates too!
А у вас и без животов люди такого веса поднять не могли и не смогут
Alexeev was hero, when I was a kid. Just a classy beast!
Salimi❤👍
Vasily Alekseyev - the Best оf the best!!!
Vasily Alekseyev set 80 world records in weightlifting !!!
Truly the best Olympic lifter ever saw him live inspired me on to become successful at this sport
Yes !
Absolutely the Best/Greatest
Согласен!
Crazy to see Clarence outsnatching him now
BRUTE strength !!!! Just MAGNIFICENT !!!!
Judges were pretty relaxed with elbow fouls on a few of these lifts...
Alexa !The only Russian Americans loved in the early 70s
It is freaking amazing how much these guys can lift!
Then Lasha came and ate them all alive
god, the suit was hideous back then.
Pink Omega not fabulous
Finally found where borat got inspired from for his lime green body suit in his movie.
I'm wishing there was hd to see his junk
Lifters look at weight lifted, technique ,or clues to be a better lifter. Teenage idiot gamers , sitting in their mom's basement in their underwear comment on background music , or one of the greatest lifters in history's singlet . Keep up the good work boys .
John Tom don’t you wish lol you would have your nose firmly planted in the crotch area
Ten pierwszy Alexeev, prawdziwa siła jeszcze nie spompowany i przerośnięty jak następnie. Nogi w porównaniu z innymi to patyczki. A moc jest 💪💪💪
Alexeev was the first to officially c&j 500 pounds (Columbus, Ohio, 1970). From what I saw of Talakhadze hoisting 583 in Tokyo, he might be the first to reach the 600lb (272k) barrier.
They lift kilos, not pounds
And now Talakhadze 492 kilo😃🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪
georgian lion lasha talakhadze is all time champion,legend
This is not my sport but huge respect for these champions' weight- lifting skills.
So much impressive!!!.
Not only should you respect them, you should bow down to them. Whatever your chosen sport is, it’s worthless compared to these gods.
Puny ass weakling.
2016 ლაშა ტალახაძე
2020 New Olympic Records: Snatch + Clear & Jerk
Interesting to note here that the snatch weight climbed much faster over the years ,while in four decades the 255 clean and jerk of the Soviet lifter Alexeev pretty much the bench mark , some full 40 years later the record in the clean and jerk is 266 kg a mere 11 kilos over the 1976 record , shows you just how far ahead the Soviet was .
Vasily Alexeev is without a doubt the best heavyweight olympic lifter ever!
thank God steroids have improved
u have to take into consideration that 216kg snatch record by Antoinio Krastev still wasn't beat by anyone
don't forget the fact that contact at the hip wasn't allowed in the 1970's. might be more important during snatch than during c&j thus explaining a larger improvement in snatch since allowing hip contact?
behdad salimi matched it in 2016 in RIO
Dam these lifts get crazier and CRAZIER EACH ONE THAT PASSES !!
Hard to believe you left out Gerd Bonk. Another great lifter .
Rezazade and Behdad from IRAN🙋🙋🙋🙋
And Siammand Rahman.toooo.
If he havnt crash car....you should be in obligation to Added Bahador Molaei ..he do 210 -264 at train
Talaxadeze 1
Alexeiev inspiración para todos los tiempos
Behdads snatch in the video is 205 kg and his result was 208, other than that very good video, please do for the other classes to :)
0:32 como olvidar cuando ñoño fue campeón olímpico
That first singlet was holding on for dear life
Exhausting to watch. Incredible athletes.
Olympics need to invest in better cameras.
Great video
1976 Vasiliy Alexeev - 440kg total
1980 Sultan Rakhmanov - 440kg total
1984 Dean Lukin - 412.5kg total
1988 Alexander Kurlovich - 462.5kg total
1992 Alexander Kurlovich - 450kg total
1996 Andrey Chemerkin - 457.5kg total
2000 Hossein Rezazadeh - 472.5kg total
2004 Hossein Rezazadeh - 473.5kg total
2008 Matthias Steiner - 461kg total
2012 Behdad Salimi - 455kg total
2016 Lasha Talakhadze - 473kg total
2021 Lasha Talakhadze - 488kg total
Awesome video
Borat suit Style back in the 70s
Ай да красавец!
I remember Vasiley Alexeyev from 1976. Made a splash at the Montreal Olympics.
Imagine what Alexeev could do with modern nutrition and training!
Soviet weightlifters forever. Pisarenko's clean and jerk 265 in 1984 at Friendship Games. OMG! Vasiliy Alexeev 80! world records! Kurlovich! Taranenko 266 kg. USSR rulzzzzz
no matter what weight may be lifted over head in the future Vasiliy Alexeev will always remain the greatest lifter ever to me , 80 world records , 255 kg clean and jerk that took almost 40 years to be surpassed ,who knows what more he could of done if he was not cut short by inside interests in his home nation . He was forced into retirement . Russia disrespected their greatest national sports hero ever .
+Alex Schonski, I agree with you, 80 wr and ten years of domination. He is hero of weightlifting. David Rigert (USSR) have 50 world records. Historical persons in the sport. Vasiliy told, that in 1980 Olimpic games he was poisoned for Sultan Rahmanov win
yes correct
Maybe he was poisoned. But what are you talking about disrespect? He is the greatest, and everybody who knows anything about weightlifting will agree with me.
+iskanderzzz, Alexerv died a poor man, he lived like a simple man. In 90's he lost all his money (prizes from USSR) at the bank's colapse. No streets, named for him, no tv shows about, looks like that hero never lived in my country.
Lots of respect for all the athletes
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I don’t watch Olympics at all, but this is amazing!
Yeah go check out lasha talakhadze and you will see what is true amazing
💚IRAN💪
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Дядя Вася крутой
I don't want to see what a weightlifter was wearing in 1972, thank you very much.
Look at the bloody Damn legs in Dean Lukin from the 1984 Olympics. They are absolutely monstrous when comparing to his upper half. Damn near inhuman and more like some rare mutation from inside the womb. Amazing...
steroids
@@rezah336 idk the numbers he put up were so small compared to the top athletes...
в 84 м австралиец в сумме поднял 412, 5 (даже Алексеев в 76 м поднял на 28 кг больше) а Писаренко в 84 м во время бойкота - 465...
Не хер было бойкотировать
Salimi is Very very technic and faster than Reza (close spread between both movments)....but Reza was considerably stronger ! clean and jerk is best absolute strenght evidence
fun fact: Reza zadeh coached Salimi.. :)
You just gotta love that awesome mankini.
hossein rezazade iran👌🏻
They covered my lift up with all those stickers at the end
1:28 many weightlifters were laughing on such results for the "victory" on those olympic games
Yeah, and we all know why :D
Those guys from the 80's were on the juice for sure
Last 15 seconds watched the video all covered by other videos suggesting. Great work RUclips, really.
We all watch videos of Olympic lifters training, doing all kinds of assistance exercises. I wonder if any of them do walking with weight overhead to practise that? Most lifters need to do that at the competitions. Just wondering . .
96' kurlovich with an injury and haven't had lifted in 20 days and having destroyed the competition at worlds, still came in 4th.
i guess this is the only time garments were skimpy and not so much any more :)
Great[beast]💪💪💪
For someone to lift a weight they have previously lifted to win gold. You kind of expect it.
For someone to lift more than they ever have to win gold. That's impressive.👍
I’m shocked by the same quality of video we had from the early 80s up till recently; it’s all blurry.
SUPERRRRRRRR 😎
the snatch has increased tremendously over the years and the clean and jerk almost got worse
I love a clean snatch!
Василий Алексеев человек - скала. Гордость СССР
The guy in the thumbnail on the left looks like Frankenstein Lol
Vasily Alexeev set 80 world records in weightlifting!!!!!
Lo mejor de la historia. Inolvidable
I remember watching him. Blew the field away Everytime. He was a beast
понравились штангетки и его лицо после Чимеркина)
Фармакология делает свое черное дело! Веса растут и растут! Скоро и по 300 кг будут над головой поднимать!
Inoltre sono tutti dei bellissimi ragazzi
Dean Lukin's awesome T rex Mode
The 1984 winner would have finished maximum 10 th in the Soviet Championship that year.
Μπόρεσε και είδε λίγο φως ήλιου κι αυτός, από καθαρή τύχη, γιατί οι ανατολικοευρωπαίοι και κυρίως οι σοβιετικοί δεν συμμετείχαν.
Too bad they all had to eat gulag prisoners to get that strong.
Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi. Thankyou also for providing us with our greatest boxer Kostya so kind
But he didn't, did he!
Yes, western weightlifers couldnt beat the soviets. The soviet boycott was a pity
You've missed out Giorgi Asanidze 2004 and Lasha Talakhadze 2016, olimpic champions.
Я его лично знал очень добрый дядька был! Царство небесное
So fast and strong.