Requiem For a Heavyweight
Big Lifts By Big Guys: Visual Retrospective of World Records
Big lift by Alexey Lovchev at the 2015 World Championship was truly sensational and inspirational.
26-year-old athlete from Russia clean-and -jerked 264KG and set a new world record in the super heavyweight class.
Lovchev joined the Crème de la crème of Olympic weightlifting. He joined the club of such legends as Vasily Alexeev and Paul Anderson, Alexander Kurlovich and Yury Vlasov, Leonid Zhabotinsky and Hossein Rezazadeh.
Here goes a visual world records retrospective in the super heavyweight.
Big lifts by big guys – from Charles Rigoulot of France in the 1920s to Alexey Lovchev of Russia in 2015.
Just keep clicking on the arrow to follow the timeline of the strongest in the world.
To review the evolution of the poundage by year, see the table below or visit our very special Lift Up project about the history of Olympic weightlifting.
Year | Location | Nation | Athlete | Result KG |
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1925 | Lyon | Charles RIGOULOT, France | 157 | |
1925 | Paris | Charles RIGOULOT, France | 160.5 | |
1925 | Paris | Charles RIGOULOT, France | 161.5 | |
1930 | Alexandria | El Sayed Mohamed NOSSEIR, Egypt | 162.5 | |
1931 | Alexandria | El Sayed Mohamed NOSSEIR, Egypt | 165.5 | |
1931 | Luxembourg | El Sayed Mohamed NOSSEIR, Egypt | 167 | |
1937 | Revel | Arnold LUHAAAR, Estonia | 167.5 | |
1947 | Kiev | Yakov KUTSENKO, Soviet Union | 173 | |
1947 | Kiev | Yakov KUTSENKO, Soviet Union | 173.5 | |
1947 | Moscow | Yakov KUTSENKO, Soviet Union | 174 | |
1947 | Philadelphia | John DAVIS, United States | 174.5 | |
1949 | London | John DAVIS, United States | 177.5 | |
1951 | Buenos Aires | John DAVIS, United States | 180 | |
1951 | Los Angeles | John DAVIS, United States | 182 | |
1954 | Lille | Norbert SCHEMANSKY, United States | 192.5 | |
1955 | Cleveland | Paul ANDERSON, United States | 196.5 | |
1959 | Leningrad | Yury VLASOV, Soviet Union | 197.5 | |
1960 | Roma | Yury VLASOV, Soviet Union | 202 | |
1961 | Kislovodsk | Yury VLASOV, Soviet Union | 205 | |
1961 | London | Yury VLASOV, Soviet Union | 206 | |
1961 | Schwechat | Yury VLASOV, Soviet Union | 208 | |
1961 | Dnepropetrovsk | Yury VLASOV, Soviet Union | 210.5 | |
1962 | Hameenlinna | Yury VLASOV, Soviet Union | 211 | |
1963 | Stockholm | Yury VLASOV, Soviet Union | 212.5 | |
1964 | Moscow | Leonid ZHABOTINSKY, Soviet Union | 213 | |
1964 | Podolsk | Yury VLASOV, Soviet Union | 215.5 | |
1964 | Tokyo | Leonid ZHABOTINSKY, Soviet Union | 217.5 | |
1966 | Berlin | Leonid ZHABOTINSKY, Soviet Union | 218 | |
1967 | Sofia | Leonid ZHABOTINSKY, Soviet Union | 218.5 | |
1967 | Moscow | Leonid ZHABOTINSKY, Soviet Union | 219 | |
1968 | Lugansk | Leonid ZHABOTINSKY, Soviet Union | 220 | |
1968 | York | Robert BEDNARSKI, United States | 220.5 | |
1970 | Velikie Luki | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 221.5 | |
1970 | Herbamount | Serge REDING, Belgium | 222 | |
1970 | Vilnius | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 223.5 | |
1970 | Szombathely | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 225.5 | |
1970 | La Roche | Serge REDING, Belgium | 226.5 | |
1970 | Columbus | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 227.5 | |
1970 | Volgograd | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 228 | |
1970 | Shakhty | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 228.5 | |
1970 | Dnepropetrovsk | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 229.5 | |
1971 | Paris | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 230 | |
1971 | Taganrog | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 230.5 | |
1971 | Sofia | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 231 | |
1971 | Sofia | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 232.5 | |
1971 | Moscow | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 233 | |
1971 | Moscow | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 235 | |
1971 | Lima | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 235.5 | |
1972 | Tallinn | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 236 | |
1972 | Tallinn | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 237.5 | |
1972 | Donetsk | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 238 | |
1973 | Madrid | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 240 | |
1974 | Erevan | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 240.5 | |
1974 | Tbilisi | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 241 | |
1974 | Manila | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 241.5 | |
1974 | Glazov | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 242 | |
1974 | London | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 242.5 | |
1974 | Zaporozhe | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 243 | |
1974 | Lipetsk | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 243.5 | |
1974 | Moscow | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 245.5 | |
1975 | Vilnius | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 245 | |
1975 | Arkhangelsk | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 246 | |
1975 | Karl-Marx-Stadt | Gerd BONK, East Germany | 246.8 | |
1975 | Montreal | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 247.5 | |
1976 | Berlin | Gerd BONK, East Germany | 252.5 | |
1976 | Montreal | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 255 | |
1977 | Podolsk | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 255.5 | |
1977 | Moscow | Vasily ALEXEEV, Soviet Union | 256 | |
1981 | Lvov | Vladimir MARCHUK, Soviet Union | 257.5 | |
1982 | Frunze | Anatoly PISARENKO, Soviet Union | 258 | |
1982 | Dnepropetrovsk | Anatoly PISARENKO, Soviet Union | 258.5 | |
1982 | Moscow | Vladimir MARCHUK, Soviet Union | 260 | |
1983 | Allentown | Anatoly PISARENKO, Soviet Union | 260.5 | |
1983 | Moscow | Sergey DIDYK, Soviet Union | 261 | |
1984 | Varna | Anatoly PISARENKO, Soviet Union | 265 | |
1987 | Ostrava | Leonid TARANENKO, Soviet Union | 265.5 | |
1988 | Canberra | Leonid TARANENKO, Soviet Union | 266 | |
1993 | Melbourme | Manfred NERLINGER, Germany | 247.5 | |
1994 | Sokolov | Andrey CHEMERKIN, Russia | 250 | |
1994 | Istanbul | Alexander KURLOVICH, Belarus | 250.5 | |
1994 | Istanbul | Andrey CHEMERKIN, Russia | 252.5 | |
1994 | Istanbul | Alexander KURLOVICH, Belarus | 253 | |
1995 | Warsaw | Andrey CHEMERKIN, Russia | 253.5 | |
1996 | Atlanta | Ronny WELLER, Germany | 255 | |
1996 | Atlanta | Andrey CHEMERKIN, Russia | 260 | |
1997 | Chiang Mai | Andrey CHEMERKIN, Russia | 262.5 | |
2002 | Warsaw | Hossein REZAZADEH, Iran | 263 | |
2004 | Athens | Hossein REZAZADEH, Iran | 263.5 | |
2015 | Houston | Alexey LOVCHEV, Russia | 264 |
… And, by the way, who is your favorite lifter on the list?
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Congratulations to the historic Russian Weightlifting program and Alexei Lovchev’s world record performance at the Houston, USA World Championship. The USA must take heed: Olympic Weightlifting, the foundation of all athletics, must to be admitted in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, (NCAA), as a competitive sport. Too much talent is diverted into gymnastics, wrestling, and other disciplines while our sport, ‘THE KING OF SPORTS’, sadly lags behind outside of the NCAA governing body.
215+265=480 a RIO