Rumour is he’s done 210/250 in training. Mental.
[quote]mldj wrote:
Not a surprise, after Aramnau’s world title at Chiang-Mai and his 440 total at Belarusian Championships at a little heavier bodyweight.[/quote]
I remember watching the world champs live on Eurosport when he pwned everyone there. I knew he was gonna go big this year!!
[quote]ninearms wrote:
Rumour is he’s done 210/250 in training. Mental.[/quote]
LOL holy goddamn. There aren’t too many supers who can even do that, let alone a 105. I haven’t had a chance to see the 105 A lifting yet, but I am really looking forward to it. But, the supers should be VERY exciting to watch. It is going to be one hell of a battle between Chigishev, Steiner, and Scerbatihs.
[quote]ninearms wrote:
Rumour is he’s done 210/250 in training. Mental.[/quote]
Thats incredible but I highly doubt that as some of the best shw can’t even hit those #'s. He should move up to shw also and try to give rezas records a run.
Why do you doubt it? He’s done 200/240 weighing only 108 in competition, and he barely missed the jerk on 245 (easy clean).
[quote]ninearms wrote:
Why do you doubt it? He’s done 200/240 weighing only 108 in competition, and he barely missed the jerk on 245 (easy clean). [/quote]
Just the 210 snatch really, a lot of the shw get stuck below that and don’t progress much more and thats pretty close to the human limit as of now.
How about Steiner??? Who saw that one coming. I’m mega happy for him considering everything that happened in the lead up to the games. Definitely the story of the Olympics for me.
Btw, how unhuman did Chigisev look???
That session epitomised everything I love about weightlifting. Incredible strength, tactics, and heart.
Chigishev looked insane, like a superhero. Double bodyweight C&J as a super too. When was the last time that happened? And did you see the speed he gets under his snatches? It looks speeded up when it’s slowed down.
I was super pissed that Chigisev lost since he was my favorite lifter going into these games. Yet after hearing steiners story about his wife, its hard not to be a fan of him.
The way he manhandled 258kg in the clean and jerk was ridiculous he could have probably gave rezas record a run for its money with how much brute strength he had then. Definitely the best competetion of these games for me-second to the 85kg showdown-
My jaw dropped when he nearly powersnatched his first attempt at 200 kg but then rode it down to full squat
The shw final was my first weightlifting event ever, and its gotta be all downhill from here. The battle between those 3 guys was amazing, and watchin steiner hit 258 on the last pull of the day, then breaking down and holding up the picture of his wife was magic.
one question: why didnt the latvian come out for his second attempt? that was really confusing…
also, chigisev looked terrifying, like he defo couldve handled more than 250 if he knew what steiner was capable of. but nobody in the gym expected him to hit that. amazing
[quote]mikeylt56 wrote:
one question: why didnt the latvian come out for his second attempt? that was really confusing…
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Because his coaches fucked up and didn’t submit the weight for his 2nd lift in the first 30 secs, so there was not much point in him taking a lift that was only 2kg above his first (after a successful first lift your next lift is automatically 2kg above, unless you say otherwise).
They then fucked up again by making him take 257 for his 3rd when he only needed 255, probably because they added what he need to win onto the 2nd lift he didn’t even take. Hence why he looked really pissed off on the podium and cleared off almost straight away, leaving Steiner and Chigishev to pose for photos.
I have a question. Did they remove the bodyweight formula from figuring final total this year?
Bodyweight formula? Not sure what you mean. Add the heaviest snatch and C&J, highest total wins. If two guys have the same total the lighter guy wins.
you mean the coefficients or something?
From what I have seen at other international events bodyweight is figured into a lifters final total. Now that I think about it may only have been when two lifters have the same total but one weighs less than the other.
Great final.
Chigishev is ridiculously lean for a SHW
[quote]ninearms wrote:
That session epitomised everything I love about weightlifting. Incredible strength, tactics, and heart.
Chigishev looked insane, like a superhero. Double bodyweight C&J as a super too. When was the last time that happened? And did you see the speed he gets under his snatches? It looks speeded up when it’s slowed down.[/quote]
Didn’t stefan botev clean and jerk 250kg at a low bodyweight in the shw? Not sure if it was double bodyweight but I thought it was, he is the only one that comes to mind.
Edit yes he was 123 kg so yes it was double bodyweight clean and jerk in the shw Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's +108 kg - Wikipedia
In training stefan botev would do 250kg little under 120kg also I believe. So other then him and chgishev noone else comes to mind.
Kurlovich and Pisarenko in their respective primes had 2xBW C&J, I think.
Kurlovich had clean and jerked 260 kg and Pisarenko - 265 kg, both were relatively lean for SHW, around the 130 mark maybe.
[quote]mldj wrote:
Kurlovich and Pisarenko in their respective primes had 2xBW C&J, I think.
Kurlovich had clean and jerked 260 kg and Pisarenko - 265 kg, both were relatively lean for SHW, around the 130 mark maybe.[/quote]
Actually, around the time of 1983 I think both guys were at 125kg bodyweight, and I also think Jaber from Qatar did a 255kg lift in 2000 also weighing 125kg. Of course, Botev and Zacharievich both did 250kg lifts weighing under 110kg.