Leonid Taranenko: World Record in 1980
History in Color:
March 9, 1980, Podolsk, Russia, USSR – Heavyweight Leonid Taranenko of the Urozhay club, Minsk, Belorussia, snatches a new world record (187.5kg) in the 110kg weight class in Podolsk, Russia.
A few months later Taranenko became an Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
8 years afterwards, he clean-and-jerked 266kg in Canberra, Australia. This world record stays active today.
No other athlete lifted more in the official competitions.
