Yury Zakharevich 455kg (210+245) @ 110kg! | 1988 - Olympics

Video about Yury’s performance at the Games of XXIV. Olympiad in Seoul (South Korea) 1988 - 110KG category. On September 27, 1988. in Men’s Heavyweight category the soviet Yury Zakharevich was the overwhelming favorite, having won the 1985-87 World Championships, with nobody coming within 20 kg of his totals. He won the gold medal in Seoul by 27.5 kg, continuing his dominance, setting two world records in the snatch, an olympic record clean & jerk, and a world record total (and two clean & jerk world record attempt), bettering his previous mark. Share and enjoy! Yury Zakharevich took the mantle of greatness in the heavyweight class. In 1983 Zakharevich dislocated his elbow and was told he would never lift again. He had surgery, however, in which a synthetic tendon was used to rebuild the elbow and returned better than before. By the late 1980s he was so dominant that the super-heavyweights feared he might attempt to move up to their weight class. At the 1986 World Championships his total would have won silver in the super-heavyweight class. Zakharevich was World heavyweight champion from 1985-87, while taking middle-heavyweight silver in 1981 and sub-heavyweight silver in 1982, European heavyweight champion from 1984-88 and heavyweight silver in 1990. During his career Zakharevich broke 38 world records, four in middle-heavyweight, 16 in sub-heavyweight and 18 in heavyweight. Zakharevich finished his sporting career after the fall of Soviet Union and later worked as a sports official. In the 1990s he was vice-president of the Russian Weightlifting Federation and from 2000-03 was the president of the International Weightlifting Federation. Next videos: some training motivation stuff... ;) Check out the channel for more oly lifting videos and subscribe if you like it. Stay tuned and see you at the next WNA’s video! Greetings from Hungary! Help for the channel to grow! If you would like to support what I’m doing I started a patreon page. I’m a student without any income, so any donation will be big support. Thanks in advance!