Accessory work accounts for the majority of training volume, and so watching it being performed reveals a lot about the athlete. This session, from the 2019 World Championships, was less than 24 hours after snatching 210kg / 462lbs and clean and jerking 255kg / 561lbs. Lifts Performed Muscle Snatch – 140kg / 308lbs Lasha Pulls …
This week, Georgia’s Lasha Talakhadze (+109) hit the heaviest snatch ever recorded on film at 222kg / 489/lbs during a national test event. Alongside a 255kg clean and jerk, Lasha totaled 477kg, a weight that only he has ever beating internationally in the history of the sport. Prior, the heaviest snatch ever recorded in competition, …
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If you want to know what type of training session proceeds a 210kg snatch and a 255kg clean and jerk – the heaviest training hall total of all time – this is it. This is the session that sets the next in motion, and so though it doesn’t contain any full lifts, the success of …
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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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As Lasha Talakhadze (GEO +109) began warming-up at the silver tier Olympic qualifying event, the 2020 Roma Weightlifting World Cup, people began crowding around, finding space behind the competition platform and up in the stands. The Roma world cup was held on the outskirts of Rome, and Lasha’s session fell on a Friday evening. Word …
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A record number of 50,514 weightlifting fans voted for the 2019 IWF World Weightlifter of the Year. It is certainly reassuring to see that weightlifting is still growing in popularity, despite recent troubles from within our sport. Lasha Talakhadze (GEO +109kg) This year Georgia’s Lasha Talakhadze defended his title on the men’s side, winning for …
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In 2016 at the Olympics Lasha’s 473 kg total overtook the best of Alexander Kurlovich of the Soviet Union. By the 2017 World Championships, Lasha totaled 477 kg, moving beyond the strongest ever, Leonid Taranenko, also of the Soviet Union, into the unknown. Lasha is his own Roger Banister, not only the first to break …
The final lift of the 2019 World Championships in Pattaya Thailand once again made history, once again by Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia. After snatching a 2 kg world record at 220 kg on his 3rd attempt, equalling the heaviest snatch of all-time held by himself, he went on to clean and jerk 264 kg, adding …
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