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Aug 9, 2022 · Leonid Taranenko . Leonid was born in 1956 in the USSR and set the world record for the clean and jerk (266kg or 58.2 pounds) and total (475 kg or 1,045 pounds) back in 1988, a record that has stood for eons. Even though weightlifting guidelines changed and his record no longer stands in the lifting federation, none comes close to equaling his ...
Sep 2, 2017 · Leonid Taranenko: 266 kg clean & jerk, super heavyweight class. Current world record: 263 kg in the 105 and over class. The list goes on, but the point Foreman makes is that these old records were achieved through old lifting methods, the very same ones that supposedly don't work anymore.
Aug 3, 2023 · It’s Soviet/Belarusian superheavyweight Leonid Taranenko attempting a 270kg clean & jerk, and it’s certainly worth a watch — just minutes after attempting 266kg. Check out the lift below.
Apr 18, 2023 · Leonid Taranenko Interview -- Bud Charniga (1989) Note: Check out the poundages and the training volume here. Yes, I am aware of drug use in lifting just like you! This interview took place at the Olympic Royal Hotel in Athens, Greece on September 23, 1989, the day following the completion of the 1989 World Championships.
- Heaviest Ever Filmed: Lasha Talakhadze, 270 Kilograms
- Heaviest in Competition: Lasha Talakhadze, 267 Kilograms
- Second Heaviest in Competition: Leonid Taranenko, 265.5 Kilograms
- Anatoly Pisarenko, 265 Kilograms
- Lasha Talakhadze, 265 Kilograms
- Disqualified: Aleksey Lovchev, 264 Kilograms
- Lasha Talakhadze: 264 Kilograms
- Hossein Rezazadeh: 263.5 Kilograms
On April 29, 2021, Georgian super heavyweight Lasha Talakhdze posted a video of him clean-and-jerking 270 kilograms. The lift was done in training, so it doesn’t count as a world record. The current world record clean & jerk is 264 kilograms, held by Talakhdze. On that same day, he posted a video of him snatching 225 kilograms, which is also the he...
Talakhadze claimed the all-time heaviest clean & jerk at the 2021 World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Before that, Leonid Taranenko hit a 266-kilogram (586.4-pound) lift in 1988 in Canberra, Australia. It’s now the second heaviest verified competition clean & jerk of all time. Made at an unusual weightlifting event sponsored by Samboy pota...
The lift below was made at the 1987 World Weightlifting Championships in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. This was actually the same competition where Antonio Krastev set what was then the all-time competition snatch world record of 216kg. Krastev’s training leading up to Ostrava was documented in the film “School of Champions.” Taranenko hit the same weig...
Made at the 1984 Friendship Games in Varna, Bulgaria — a socialist-friendly alternative to the Summer Olympics, which the USSR had boycotted that year — the Ukrainian weightlifter made this lift weighing just 123 kilograms. This makes him, by far, the lightest lifter to go over 260 kilos in competition.
Although Pisarenko did 265 kilograms first, Talakhadze seems to be inching ever closer towards matching his 270-kilogram clean & jerk on the competition platform. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the Georgian jerked 265 kilograms to win his session by a whopping 47 kilograms in total. Based on his current trajectory, 270 will be written into the re...
This clean & jerk was made at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships in Houston, Texas. Though it appeared to be a new world record, breaking the previous one by 500 grams, the lift was ultimately rescinded after Lovchev tested positive for performance enhancers.
The Georgian phenomenon, who currently holds all three world records for the heaviest Olympic lifts in the current weight classes, made his heaviest competition clean & jerk of 264 kilos at the 2018 Georgian NationalsAND the 2019 World Championships. It was in the latter competition that he set his then all-time total world record at 484 kilograms....
The Iranian weightlifter made this monstrous clean & jerk at the 2004 Athens Olympics. To this day, it’s the heaviest lift ever made at an Olympic event. Know a massive superheavyweight clean & jerk we missed where video exists? Let us know @barbendnews on Twitter. Featured image via Willehardt, Frank Rothwell, Juuso, and superscience1 on YouTube.
Feb 22, 2021 · By Strength Sensei CP. The heaviest clean and jerk of all-time belongs to Leonid Taranenko, a Russian who clean and jerked 266 kilos (586.4 pounds) in 1988. This lift required incredible leg strength, and the weightlifting community took a particular interest in his leg training workouts.
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Feb 22, 2023 · The Soviet Discovery of Training Waves. Many Western periodization programs have an inverse relationship between training intensity and volume. These programs are linear in that you add weight in successive weeks and reduce the total number of lifts.
