Ilya Ilyin (05/24/88) is a weightlifter from Kazakhstan. Ilya is one of the greatest weightlifters ever, is the most dominant weightlifter of the 21st Century, and holds the 29th highest Sinclair of all time.
Ilya Ilyin, who remains undefeated in his career, won the Youth Asian Championships twice in both 2003 and 2004 in the 69 kg and 85 kg weight class respectively. Ilya won his first senior World Championships in Doha 2005 aged just 17 where he snatched 170 kg and clean and jerked 216 kg. Ilya went on to win 4 world championships across 3 different weight classes – 2005 at 85 kg, 2006 at 94 kg, 2011 at 94 kg, 2014 at 105 kg. Amidst these wins Ilya went on to win the senior Asian Games in 2006 and 2010.
Despite winning the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics Ilya lost his gold medals after testing positive retroactively for the banned substances dehydrochloromethyltestosterone and stanozolol.
Ilya’s greatest performance by way of Sinclair came at the 2015 President’s Cup in Grozny where Ilya broke the -105 kg class world records in the clean and jerk and total with a 191 kg/ 246 kg/ 437 kg performance.
Having served his ban, Ilya continues to train and compete in the hopes of winning the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
This is a training session from the 2019 World Championships training hall, less than one week out from competition. Meso Hassona (QAT 96) worked up to a training lift in the clean and jerk at 220kg, the heaviest training lift from any 96kg lifter in the training hall, and a lift that only one other …
Meso Hassona 220kg Clean & Jerk, Ilya Ilyin Front Squat/Snatch | 2019 WWC Training Hall Read More »
This is part one in the new Weightlifting House YouTube series where we take you into the most competitive, most elite training hall in the world at the Weightlifting World Championships 2019. Each day hundreds of the greatest weightlifters in the world, and a small handful of the greatest of all-time, train side by side, …
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Not long before Ilya Ilyin announced his retirement from the sport of weightlifting due to the complications of Olympic qualification brought on by Covid-19, I was able to sit down with him and record an interview about his life. We spoke about his childhood and training process in part 1, and more in part 2 …
Ilya Ilyin on Drugs in Sports, and the Corruption of the IWF Read More »
Ilya Ilyin is arguably the most famous weightlifter of all-time. As much as his two Olympic gold medals and his unbeaten track record built his legend, the loss of his medals through retroactive drug testing built his infamy. Behind the headlines is an incredible story of a Kazakh athlete who was plucked from his family …
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The contentious Ilya Ilyin competed today at the 2019 Kazakh National Championships in the -102 kg weight class, one class above the -96kg weight class in which he will compete next month at the 2019 Weightlifting World Championships in Thailand. Ilya has continued to progress in the snatch, consistently adding 5 kg from each previous …
The release of the provisional start list for the Birdseye British International Open has revealed that some big names are perhaps going to be making the trip to compete in Coventry. The British International Open will take place from 7th to 9th June, alongside the British Championships. It is a bronze-level Olympic qualification competition (see …
British International Open: Ilya, Toma, Chumak, Seim, Ulanov and More Read More »
It seems that the oscillation debate has come back into the weightlifting ether, the stem of which generally comes from a lack of understanding as to what the rule actually says. In this article, we will take a look at the exact rule as stated by the IWF technical and competition rules and regulations, as …
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This is part 2 of the Ilya Ilyin interview by Yarkin Vyacheslav. Yarkin gave Weightlifting House permission to translate and publish this interview in order to help spread Ilya’s thoughts on various topics to the English speaking world. You can check out part 1 here. With the help of Tyler Hodgin, aka our Kazakh correspondent, …
Ilya Ilyin is currently training in Sochi, Russia, alongside his teammate Nijat Rahimov in preparation for the 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships. Alongside Ilya are as few of the Russian national team members including Yarkin Vyacheslav (- 81 kg), who famously snatched 170 kg weighing 76 kg aged 18. A few weeks ago Yarkin Vyacheslav spoke …
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In an interview with Ilya Ilyin conducted by hookgrip (07/26/17) Ilya revealed many previously unknown training numbers from his now seventeen-year long career. This has been collated with his official IWF competition lifts. Ilya’s Best Results – Training and Competition Type Weight Snatch C&J Total Where Training (13 y/o) 69 kg 105 142 247 Training …
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