The strongest men are engaged. They are able to lift simply incredible weights that no one else can even budge.

Every year more and more new records are set, but there are also those that are very difficult and no one can beat them for decades. Consider the most incredible world records.

Strongest

"Most strong man on the planet" - so it was called in its time. US athlete Paul Anderson, who was involved in weightlifting and competed more than 50 years ago, still has unbroken records in strength exercises.

In Las Vegas, he managed to squat with a weight of 526 kg three times in a row. He did this every day for several weeks and said that such a weight for him was the usual worker, and not the maximum. He did this without any athletic equipment, and barefoot. For example, the modern record was set by Doni Thompson, who squatted with a weight of 590 kg. And in 1975, without equipment, a record was set in the squat with a weight of 423.5 kg by Don Reinhodt - this record has not yet been broken by anyone.

Another amazing achievement of Anderson is lifting the weight of one right hand. He lifted 136 kg 11 times. He did such exercises with special dumbbells.

It is possible to tear off almost three tons of weight!

He set one of the most incredible world records in lifting weights from racks. Anderson was able to tear off 2844 kg of weight, which exceeded the records set before him by almost a ton.

Also incredible world records in weightlifting Andy Bolton, an English weightlifter, also put it on. He set three world records: squat with a weight of 550.5 kg, deadlift- 457.5 kg, total triathlon - 1273 kg. Andy became the first man on the planet to deadlift over 453.6 kg (1000 pounds).

In the deadlift, success should be noted In the spring of 2011 in the equipment, he set a world record in weightlifting and lifted a weight of 460 kg at the classic tournament.

As for that, it is impossible not to mention the achievement of the American athlete Ryan Kennelly. Without equipment, he squeezes 297 kg. A lot of? In equipment in 2008, Ryan squeezed 478.6 kg! So far, no one can beat this world record in weightlifting.

Iran ahead

In such an exercise as a snatch, in absolute weight class world records in weightlifting belong only to athletes from Iran. And it is noteworthy that the two most recent belong to the teacher with his student. So, in 2003, Hossein Reza Zadeh set a world record by making a snatch with a barbell weight of 213 kg. And in 2011, his student Bedhad Salimi surpassed his teacher and managed to make a breakthrough at the National Tournament, which was held in Iran, with a weight of 214 kg. At the same time, in the clean and jerk, the world record in Hossein's weightlifting remained unbeaten - no one managed to take a weight of more than 263 kg.

Despite the development of training systems, as well as sports supplements, which weightlifters use, so far no one has been able to surpass the result of a Soviet athlete who in 1988 submitted a weight in the clean and jerk of 266 kg. Then in the sum of the biathlon he gained 475 kg.

Also unsurpassed is the result of the Turkish athlete N. Suleymanoglu, who in the same 1988 was able to push a barbell weighing 190 kilograms, thereby setting a new world record in weightlifting. Does it seem a little? Your opinion will change when you find out in what category the athlete competed then - up to 60 kg. That is, the Turk was able to lift a weight that was more than three times his own!

Kettlebells are lighter than fluff for them

Let's touch a little and the World Champion in this sport Pavel Lesnykh, who lives in the Altai Territory, does not get tired of setting more and more new records. In 2007, Pavel set a world record by pushing a weight of 36 kilograms 1030 times. He did it in exactly an hour and a half.

And this is really a grandiose achievement, since the previous record, which was set by Vyacheslav Khoronenko, the “Belarusian king of kettlebells”, was 1020 jerks with a 32 kilogram kettlebell.

In addition, Pavel managed to push a 41 kg kettlebell 209 times, as well as hold a 52 kg kettlebell for 30 minutes on weight, thus setting new weightlifting world records.

No less world records were set by another Russian athlete - Ivan Denisov, multiple champion Russia and the world kettlebell lifting. He set a world record in the longest cycle. Pushing a 32-kilogram weight in 2007, he managed to achieve a result of 109 points. And in 2005, Ivan was able to score in the biathlon, which consists of a push and a jerk, a result of 387 points. At the same time, he scored 175 points in the clean and jerk, and 220 points in the snatch.

What's next?

Many experts say that the new weightlifting world records being set by athletes are becoming less and less different from those already set. And this is despite new methods, nutrition and funding for athletes. All more people they attribute this to the fact that they have simply already come close to the possibilities of the physical strength of the human body, and therefore there can no longer be large gaps in the records. Like it or not, only time will tell. As they say, "wait and see."

Alexey Lovchev updated two world records this night and became the most strong man on the planet

"I did it! Friends, thank you to everyone who believed and cheered for me! Russia is the greatest power, and we are proof of this!”- Aleksey Lovchev wrote on his page a few hours after he became the world champion and updated two legendary world records.

World records in the heavyweight category for men are so rare that in last time it happened back in the last century (the year 2000 is the last century, right?). Then the colorful Iranian (and who is not colorful in this weight?) Hossein Rezazade lifted 472 kg (the result for weightlifters consists of the sum of two attempts - in the snatch and clean and jerk) and won the Sydney Olympics.

Yesterday in American Houston, that seemingly eternal record was broken by a simple Russian guy from Karabanovo, a town at the junction of Moscow and Vladimir regions. So simple that when asked about the main post-sports dream, he always answered - to open a car service in his city and deal with cars.

“I have never lifted this much weight before – I am stunned. This proves that Russia is the strongest nation. I couldn't have done this without the support of my parents. My father is a coach, he brought me to weightlifting. My mother died in 2012 and I dedicate this victory and these records to her.”, - Lovchev appeared in weightlifting from the age of nine, and lifted the first weights in the gym, which was built by his father.

Lovchev's record attempt at 264 kg is a great motivational video for those who are used to giving up when it's hard.

Most likely, you didn’t watch it - it’s not customary for us to spend the second hour of Saturday night on weightlifting. Therefore, you will not see how, after a successful approach to 248 kg (the second attempt, which actually provided Lovchev with gold), the coaches threw Lovchev leaving the platform - shall we go to 64? He didn't even answer, just nodded his chin. What, they say, questions, of course we go ...

With my friends we celebrate the victory of our team!

“When I was little, I often watched Rezazade's performances on TV, lifting huge weights. He was an example for me, I could never imagine that one day I would surpass his record., - that night, 26-year-old Lovchev did what he could not believe - he became the most powerful man on the planet.

With Sports Minister VitalyMutkoand my friendAlexanderIvanov

Here it is worth making one caveat.

Officially, Lovchev now has two world records - the most important in the total of the biathlon and a separate one in the clean and jerk (he also belonged to Rezazade, but held a little less - since the 2004 Olympics in Athens). The record in the snatch is still held by another Iranian, Behdad Salimi - before the 214 kg he took four years ago, Lovchev did not have three kilograms yesterday.

But in reality, Lovchev has so far only repeated the best amount in the history of weightlifting, and in the clean and jerk his result is only the third. Why is that?

The thing is that world records in weightlifting were reset three times - in 1993 and 1998. International Federation redrawn the weight categories, and the countdown of new achievements began from the beginning.

Therefore, all the results, tortured by weightlifters before 1998, are probably undeservedly forgotten. Just remember - in 1988, when the heavyweight category began not with 105 kg, as it is now, but with 110 kg (is there a fundamental difference in the lower limit of absolute weight?), Leonid Taranenko pushed the barbell by 266 kg (four years earlier 265 kg pushed Anatoly Pisarenko) and scored a total of 475 kg.

A good benchmark for Lovchev, who, two years after his international debut (the 2013 Bronze World Championships - the first big start in Alexei's career), added 11 kg in the snatch and 34 kg in the clean and jerk. Then another Russian Ruslan Albegov won, just like a year ago in Alma-Ata, where Lovchev “barred” the snatch, leaving no result at all.

“Ruslan and I have a good relationship. There is no tension, and even more so there is no enmity, we regularly communicate in the hall. ”, - let's save the confrontation between Lovchev and Albegov for the next Olympic year.

“The decision not to take Albegov to Houston is a strategic one. He and Lovchev were ready to work on world records and did not want to wear them out with this confrontation., — Main coach national team Alexander Venkov explained the sudden exclusion of Albegov from the application of the national team.

As for Aleksey, he could go for a world record in the snatch, but we made a common decision just to provide an advantage over the rivals before the clean and jerk. And only when, after two attempts in the clean and jerk, it became clear that Alexey won gold, he, in agreement with personal trainers and coaching staff team went on a world record. And he returned the highest world achievement in the heavyweight category to Russia - after two decades of leadership of Iranian weightlifters.

All world record holders in the heavyweight division in history (the most recent records set are indicated):

Christo Plachkov (Bulgaria) - 442.5 kg; Vasily Alekseev (USSR) - 445 kg; Anatoly Pisarenko (USSR) - 457.5 kg; Alexander Gunyashev (USSR) - 465 kg; Antonio Krastev (Bulgaria) - 467.5 kg; Alexander Kurlovich (USSR / Belarus) - 472.5 kg; Leonid Taranenko (USSR) - 475 kg; Andrey Chemerkin (Russia) - 462.5 kg (after zeroing the results in 1993); Ronnie Weller (Germany) - 465 kg; Hossein Rezazadeh (Iran) - 472.5 kg; Alexey Lovchev (Russia) - 475 kg.

With my coach Sergei Ivanov and two-time Olympic champion, four-time world championAlexanderKurlovich

World Championship

Houston, USA

Men

Over 105 kg

1. Alexey Lovchev (Russia) - 475 kg (211 kg + 264 kg) - world record

2. Lasha Talakhadze (Georgia) - 454 (207 + 247)

Quotes: Inside The Games, WodLoft, All Sports

At the city festival in Kholmsk, weightlifter Maxim Sheiko overcame the result of the Olympic champion of the London Games by 18 kg (!) and broke the world record in the clean and jerk.

At the city festival in Kholmsk, weightlifter Maxim Sheiko overcame the result of the Olympic champion of the London Games by 18 kg (!) and broke the world record in the clean and jerk.

PRIVATE BUSSINESS

What happened in Sakhalin Kholmsk does not fit into my head. 24 years old Maxim Sheiko with a result of 430 kg in the biathlon, he would have easily won the recent Olympic Games. Despite the fact that he missed the Games, without going into the national team. Gone Khadzhimurat Akkaev And Dmitry Klokov who ended up not competing due to injury...

- Maxim, what was it?- Yesterday our correspondent got through to the troublemaker.
“Nothing special,” the weightlifter replied calmly, his two-year-old daughter Ariana was wailing in the background. - I was ready for this weight. But, to be honest, until the last moment I did not want information about my results to come out. After all, in my weight category there is a lot of competition.

- It's clear. But why storm the world record at a small town festival?
– The original idea was to lift the barbell with a light weight. So, to promote the sport. But I'm in good shape now. He proposed to introduce an element of competition - to make three attempts in the snatch, three in the clean and jerk and try to lift a decent weight. That's all.

- That's all?! You would win the Olympics with a margin!
Believe me, I'm not the only one who has such thoughts. I repeat, we all perfectly understood that we should go to the Games Akkaev And Klokov. By and large, neither I nor the other guys applied for a trip to London. Who could have known that this would happen?

- At this holiday, no one jumped 2.40 in height?
- You're laughing. The City Day celebration turned out to be excellent. Just imagine - an open stadium, 500 spectators. A special stage has been installed where artists perform, and next to it is a platform where I lift the barbell. The heat is 30 degrees, the wind, people support you ... This is unusual, because we perform in silence. By the way, I broke my personal record by 9 kilograms.

- Your record is now being actively discussed on the Internet. One of the popular versions is doping. Like, they allegedly didn’t send you to the Olympics so as not to get caught in a scandal.
- Nonsense! I was weaker than the competition. And doping… There are too many evil tongues. You can’t explain to everyone that we take doping tests not only at competitions, but also at any other time.

- Your world record in the clean and jerk 239 kg, of course, will not be registered. When can we expect the official one?
- My goal is the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

- And what weight will you need to take for a gold medal in Brazil?
- 435 kilograms. I think enough.

This is only 5 kg more than Maxim took in Kholmsk ...

BY THE WAY. SHEIKO SERVED A 2-YEAR SUSPENSION

In 2010, a doping sample taken from Maksim Sheiko after the championship of Russia, it turned out to be positive. Anabolic methandrostenolone was found in the athlete's blood.

The 22-year-old Russian was suspended for two years, after which he returned to big sport.

RUSSIAN TEAM COACH DAVID RIGERT: WE WILL PREPARE MAXIM FOR THE 2016 OLYMPIAD

Phenomenal performance Maksim Sheiko on Sakhalin did not surprise the head coach of the Russian men's team David Riegert.

“In fact, there is nothing supernatural in this result,” he noted. Rigert. - Maxim was preparing for this weight. And in general, he was a candidate for the Russian Olympic team.

Why wasn't he taken to the Games?
- We determined the line-up for the World Cup. And then 105 kg is not weight Sheiko. Why immediately throw him into hell? We will prepare the guy for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

– But it would be a gold medal in London…
– Now, in hindsight, everyone is strong. But who knew that everything would turn out like this? No one thought that some would be removed, others would not take weight. Clearly, now if you know the results of London, then we can say that several of our guys would fight for the highest award at once. But before the Games, they could hardly count on medals.

- There are several versions at once - why Akkaev and Klokov did not end up at the Olympics. What really happened?
- Concerning Akkaeva, then the situation is as follows: an incorrect diagnosis was made in Moscow. They said, they say, a small hernia, everything will be fine. But already in London, his legs began to take away. The situation was very serious, I had to operate directly in the UK, thanks to our ambassador, who helped in this situation.

As for Klokova, then we'll figure it out. It seems like something happened to his knee, although he had never had problems with his knees before. Although I understand that there is a first time for everything.

- It was no longer possible to replace one of them with the same Sheiko?
- No. The final composition had to be announced on July 26 from 14:00 to 16:00. On the 28th we learned about Klokova, and on August 2 operated Akkaeva…

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The composition of the participants of the Russian team in the category up to 105 kg was determined by the results of the 2011 World Championship in Paris.

Then Maxim Sheiko has not competed in this category yet (his main category is up to 94 kg). Wherein Khadzhimurat Akkaev won the world championship Dmitry Klokov won silver. And in the remaining time before the Games, both athletes proved that they are the strongest weightlifters of the country in their category.

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He landed on his feet, bounced, jumped like a frog a couple more times and, dancing, ran to the benches. It was not a dance of joy. Bob Beamon considered the first jump after a barely passed qualification jump in the final of the 68 Olympics to be a trial one. He does not look back at the jump pit, does not pay attention to the excitement among the judges and does not understand why the Soviet delegation looks at him like that. The judges fiddled with the measurements for half an hour: the stationary scale turned out to be too short, they had to use a tape measure. Even after the announcement of the figure 8.90 -

that insane 55 centimeters further than the world record - the American does not look happy, although by the reaction of others he already understands that he jumped very well. Beamon grew up in a bleak New York ghetto, received an athletic scholarship, and didn't know much about the metric system. "You jumped 29 feet," fellow American jumper Ralph Boston told him, and Bob Beamon collapsed into a nervous tantrum. The whole next day they could not bring him out of his stupor.

Bob Beamon and Sergey Bubka are not only names, but also sports strategies. The fantastic achievement of the first demotivated an entire generation of athletes, including the record holder himself. Two years after the Olympics, he retired from jumping to basketball, and soon ended his sports career altogether. Sergey Bubka stretched his 35 records for ten years. He deliberately, which he does not hide now, improved the record by centimeter, although at the peak of his form he could jump it immediately by 10. The reason is the prize money received for each record and the desire to remain the main character in his discipline longer.

Bob Beamon - 55 centimeters forward, the record held for 23 years.

Sergey Bubka - 29 centimeters up, the record in open stadiums has not been surpassed for 21 years. The numbers look like a reproach to modern athletes. Is this a defect in perception in the spirit of “before the grass was greener, and the men are stronger”, or do records really become smaller and smaller over time?

I must say that pessimism is characteristic of every generation of specialists. In 1934, the famous American track and field coach Brutus Hamilton predicted that people would never be able to jump higher than 2 m 10 cm, run a hundred meters faster than 10.1 seconds, and 1,500 m faster than 3:44.8. The prediction turned out to be as wrong as any attempt to imagine the distant future. Up to our time, the growth of world records has been programmed by progress in each of the four most important components: in training methods, sports pharmacology, technical improvement of inventory and equipment, and talent selection. The question is how long can they still push for records human body little changed in the last thousand years.

Perhaps the answer is contained in the modern French Institute of Biomedicine and Epidemiology (Irmes). His mathematical analysis of 3,260 records set since 1896 shows that athletes now use 99% of the physiological capabilities of the body - this is against 75% used by them at the end of the 19th century. The remaining 1% can only improve records in half of the sports by a measly 0.05% and only until 2060. What then? Then either the Institute of Biomedicine and Epidemiology will close, or there will be only robots in sports.

Not trusting the predictions, we have studied the history of world records in eight popular disciplines to give you a basis for your own conclusions.

Pole vaulting

An increase in athleticism and an improvement in technique is explained
performance improvement in all sports. So, evolutionarily, pole vaults also develop, but only as long as
there is not another revolution in the way it is made.

Bamboo
and wooden poles 1912-1946 Best result:
4.77 meters (1942)

Metal
pole 1946-1960 Best result:
4.8 meters (1960)

fiberglass from 1960 to today Best result:
6.16 meters (2014)

During the first competitions in the middle of the 19th century, hardwood poles were used, and the jump was more like climbing. The appearance of bendable bamboo poles at the end of the century coincided with the ban on climbing up them. The elasticity of bamboo made it possible to jump over 4 meters and by the 1940s, when metal poles appeared, to reach a record of 4.77 m. .

Sergei Bubka

From 1984 to 1994 set 35 world records

The first examples of fiberglass poles were presented at the 1960 Rome Olympics. Their powerful extension more effectively transferred the kinetic energy of the run forward and upward, and until the early 1980s, the world record increased by a meter.

In 1934, Brutus Hamilton predicted that people would never be able to jump higher than 2 m 10 cm, run a hundred meters faster than 10.1 seconds.

Renault Lavillenie

In 2014 he broke the record of Sergey Bubka

In 1984, the first of his 35 world records was set by Sergei Bubka. This fantastic series brought the hitherto unpopular pole vault to a number of leading track and field disciplines. In 10 years, one man's effort in outdoor stadiums went from 5.85m to 6.14m. He used a pole designed for heavier athletes and kept it unusually close to the end - this is one of the many attempts to explain the superiority of Bubka. The Ukrainian himself believed that the records set by him could only be broken with the advent of radically new poles. But it seems that the reserves of fiberglass have not yet been exhausted - in 2014, Renault Lavillenie in the Donetsk Sports Palace jumped over the bar set at a height of 6.16 m.

Chronology of records
in pole vault for 100 years Note:

Swimming

Swimming

The history of the latest records in swimming is also the history of the struggle of the defenders of sports traditions with technical progress.

5x Olympic champion

In 1999, 16-year-old Ian Thorp, a future five-time Olympic champion, sets the first of his world records. 3:41.83 minutes in the 400m freestyle is almost two seconds better than the previous achievement. Thorp performed in normal swimming trunks. Immediately after the end of the championship, he signs a contract with Adidas for an undisclosed five-figure figure and begins to compete in a polyurethane suit that increases buoyancy and reduces friction. Over the next three years, the Australian sets 12 personal world records, including updating the record four times in the 400-meter freestyle.

In 1934, Brutus Hamilton predicted that people would never be able to jump higher than 2 m 10 cm, run a hundred meters faster than 10.1 seconds.

Paul Biederman

In 2009 he broke Ian Thorp's record

In 2009, three years after Thorp retired from the sport, the German Paul Biedermann, in an even more perfect jumpsuit, beat him in the 400-meter freestyle - 3:40.07. At the same World Championships in Rome, another 42 world records are set. Many of them are still holding on, because from next year the International Swimming Federation banned the use of suits in official competitions. The records were not reset. Sports officials refer to the precedent of Usain Bolt, who in 2008 was able to beat Ben Johnson's 20-year steroidal achievement in the 100 meters by a tenth of a second. Swimming is waiting for new heroes.

Chronology of records
in swimming (400 m freestyle,
swimming pool 50 m) for 100 years Note: Until 2000, only those records are marked on the chart that exceed the previous ones by at least 1 second.

Marathon
42km

Marathon 42 km 195m

The progress of the results in the marathon is divided into three historical periods. Until the end of the 1950s, a time of increasingly hard training, when athletes, without exception, representatives of developed countries, began to run up to 150 kilometers a week. In 1960, Abebe Bikila from Ethiopia won the Olympics barefoot. Thus began the globalization of the marathon, which by now has turned into the hegemony of East African runners.

In the early 1980s, competitions with significant cash prizes started around the world, which became the reason for the high commercialization and professionalization of the marathon. Many top athletes skip the World Championships and the Olympics for the sake of commercial starts with prizes of several tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars, because they are able to show top speed no more than once or twice a year. Since 1999, the marathon world record has been broken twice by a Moroccan, twice by an Ethiopian, and four times by a Kenyan. The superiority of runners from East Africa is usually explained by their life in the highlands, which contributes to a more efficient consumption of oxygen; unusual for people from developed countries by the ratio of height and weight; active training in childhood (often forced to run 10 km to school and back) and the most severe in adulthood when participation in a marathon becomes the only chance to break out of poverty.

Marathon at the 1896 Olympics

However, in 2014, Kenyan runner Rita Jeptu, who won the prestigious marathons in Chicago and Boston five times, was disqualified for using erythropoietin. Experts point out that leading African runners and entire running schools can now afford to hire Western pharmaceutical specialists. At the same time, there are practically no anti-doping organizations in their countries, that is, athletes are not subjected to any checks between performances.

Abebe Bikila

The first ever two-time Olympic champion in the marathon - 1960 and 1964

Chronology of records
in a marathon (42 km 195 m) for 100 years Note: if several world records were set in one year, only one is displayed on the graph - best result this year.

Cycling

Cycling

The history of the hourly riding record shows how technological progress in cycling outstrips growth physical abilities person. Since the end of the 19th century, the achievement has been updated several dozen times, and each new record shifts rode on more and more advanced technology. Sometimes it was designed specifically for this race.

Finally, in 1996 international union cyclists returned to the race the spirit of competition of athletes, not manufacturers. The benchmark hour record was recognized as the achievement of Eddy Merckx, nicknamed the Cannibal, a five-time winner of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, a three-time world champion.

Chris Boardman

current absolute champion. Set a record in 1996

In 1972, at the velodrome in Mexico City, he traveled 49,431 meters in an hour. Now, this record could only be broken on a bike of the classic design of the 1970s. The results of cyclists on modern technology were singled out in a separate category "Best Human Achievement".

Ondrej Sosenka

In 2005 he set a record on a classic bike.

Since then, the classic bicycle hour record has only been improved by 270 meters by Ondřej Sosenka, who was disqualified for methamphetamine use three years later. But the "Best Human Achievement" exceeds the record of Eddy Merckx by almost 7 kilometers. Chris Boardman put it on a carbon disc bike rear wheel and the steering wheel of the "Superman" model, which allowed you to stretch your arms far forward to improve aerodynamics.

The Mavic Lotus bike that Chris Boardman set the record on

Chronology of records
in cycling for 100 years Note: if several world records were set in one year, only one is displayed on the graph - the best result of this year.

historical record

Men Women

hour record

Men Women

Best Human Achievement

Men Women

jumping
in length

Long jump

Long jumps are getting shorter. The 2014 men's best of 8.51m by Greg Rutherford is 1 cm short of the 1979 best and 40 cm short of the world record set by Mike Powell in 1991.

Mike Powell

Current long jump record holder

In 1935, Jesse Owens became the first person to fly 8 meters. Eighty years later, with his result of 8.13 m, you can take medals at the Olympics and win prestigious international competitions the level of the Diamond League stages.

What's happening? The politically correct explanation is about money. The key quality of a good jumper is high speed. Now you can earn much more with it in sprinting and American football.

Marquis Goodwin, number one of the US long jump team at the 2012 Olympics, retired a year later. athletics in the NFL, where he became a wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills.

When cameras and voice recorders are turned off, current athletes and coaches accuse the champions of the past of doping, the use of which is now greatly complicated by new test systems. However, not caught - not a thief, and few dare to openly question the achievements of the icons of athletics. The former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Dick Pound, also did not name names in an interview with The New York Times: “Our athletes are getting stronger, and our training methods are improving, but some records remain untouched. I think the reason is obvious. There were a lot of fake results back then.”

Chronology of records
long jump for 100 years Note: if several world records were set in one year, only one is displayed on the graph - the best result of this year.

Throwing
spears

Javelin-throwing

A unique case in the history of athletics - in 1984, the results in the javelin throw were considered too high.

Then the representative of the GDR, Uwe Hohn, for the first time threw a javelin over a hundred meters - at 104.8 m. This range began to threaten the safety of spectators in the stadium, and changes were made to the design of the projectile. The center of gravity of the spear was shifted 4 cm closer to the tip, so that it pecked down earlier in flight.

In 1984 he threw an old-style javelin at 104.8 meters

In 1986, the second countdown of records in this discipline began. In 1991, for the third time, when spears with notched plumage and other modifications were banned, with which manufacturers tried to level the shift in the center of gravity.

Uwe Hohn competing in 1984

But no changes prevented the Czech Jan Zhelezny from approaching the 100-meter mark again. From 1992 to 1996, he broke the world record four times. The last achievement, 98.48 m, now seems almost unattainable. The world record is more than 5 meters higher than the second record in history and 10 meters higher than the best result of the 2014 season.

Jan Zhelezny

Current record holder in javelin throw

Physically, Jan (185 cm and 79–85 kg) was noticeably inferior to the former champions. Parameters Uwe Hon - 199 cm and 114 kg, Seppo Reti - 190 cm and up to 120 kg. The advantage of the Czech champion was given by impeccable coordination of movements and a unique throwing technique.

Chronology of records
in javelin throw for 100 years Note: if several world records were set in one year, only one is displayed on the graph - the best result of this year. Skater suit produced by the American corporation Under Armor

In the mid-1990s, athletes received bladed skates from special types friction reducing steel. What revolutionized the sport, however, was a purely mechanical improvement. Claps - so for the characteristic sound during movement they call shoes, the heel of which freely comes off the blade. Already at the 1998 Olympics, the vast majority of skaters competed in the valves. Among them was the Dutchman Gianni Romme, who improved the distance record of 10,000 meters by another 15 seconds.

Clap skates are about 12% more efficient by increasing the length of the push - the blade maintains contact with the ice even at the moment of foot extension

Sven Kramer

Current speed skating record holder (10,000 m)

In the same place, in Nagano, zigzags made of sticky rubber appeared on the overalls of the Dutch, unpleasantly surprising the competitors. They break up the airflow around the athlete, create turbulence and reduce friction. The US team coach then stated that the stripes could improve the result by 0.5 seconds per lap. After that, the leading teams of the world put a lot of effort into improving the costumes. In particular, now their outer rubberized layer encases the runner in a dense cocoon, helping him to maintain the most favorable position for aerodynamics. The speed skating technology race continues.

Timeline of records in speed running
skating (10,000 m) for 100 years Note: if several world records were set in one year, only one is displayed on the graph - the best result of this year.

Vasily Alekseev

Two-time Olympic champion and six-time world champion. Set a record in 1972

The results of this study were actually confirmed by the International Weightlifting Federation, which twice - in 1993 and 1998 - reset the list of world records. The official explanation for this was the change in the boundaries of weight categories, the real reason is the all-too-obvious contribution of doping to the setting of the highest achievements.

Maybe it's in weightlifting opportunities human body were exhausted a few decades ago.

Hussein Rezazade

current champion
heavyweight lifting

Now this sport, along with cycling, remains among the most “chemically loaded”. Here are just a few recent scandals: from participating in the 2014 World Cup due to positive tests eight weightlifters were immediately suspended for doping, including two gold medalists; already in 2015 in use anabolic steroids 11 members of the Bulgarian national team were caught, including two European champions.

Timeline of lift records
heavyweight for 100 years Note: if several world records were set in one year, only one is displayed on the graph - the best result of this year.

What do those who are big look like? muscle mass needed, first of all, for beauty, we often show, but about those who are interested in muscles purely from the point of view of strength - rarely. Today on Zozhnik is the day of weightlifters who set a world record in this sport, which is not easy in every sense.

Andrey Aryamnov

Andrey was born on April 17, 1988 in Borisov. He is a serviceman of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus and an Honored Master of Sports of the Republic of Belarus. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he won gold medal in the category up to 105 kg, setting world records in the snatch - 200 kg, and in the sum of the snatch and clean and jerk - 436 kg. This hero weighs 105kg with a height of 173cm.

Ilya Ilyin

Ilya is a weightlifter from Kazakhstan with a height of 174cm and a weight of 94kg. Two-time Olympic champion (Beijing 2008 and London 2012), four-time world champion, two-time world champion among juniors, two-time champion of the Asian Games. World record holder in the clean and jerk (233 kg) and the combined total (418 kg) in the 94 kg category, in the clean and jerk (242 kg) in the 105 kg category and the absolute world record holder among juniors in the 85 kg category in the snatch (170 kg), in the clean and jerk ( 216 kg) and in the combined event (386 kg). In total, he set 3 world records among juniors and 3 world records among adults. Ilyin became the best weightlifter in the world 3 times (2005, 2006 and 2014).

Kakhi Kakhiashvili

Kahi was born on July 13, 1969. His height is 178 cm, and we could not find out his weight. A Georgian from Tskhinval has been playing for Greece for a long time under the name Akakios Kakiashvilis. Wikipedia says that he is an outstanding Soviet, Georgian and Greek weightlifter, three-time Olympic champion, three-time world champion. During sports career set 7 world records. The snatch record - 188 kg has been valid since 1999. The double-event record - 412 kg, set at the same time, lasted more than 12 years and was improved by Ilya Ilyin by Olympic Games ah in 2012 in London.

Kim is a North Korean weightlifter, champion of the 2012 Olympic Games in the category up to 62 kg (height 158cm). Kim set several world records: at the Olympic Games in Great Britain in 2012 - 327 kg in total exercises. In 2014, at the Asian Games in Korea, he improved his achievement to 332 kg and set a record in the snatch - 154 kg.

Lu Xiaojun was born in 1984 in Qianjiang, Hubei Province. In 1998, he entered the Qianjiang sports school. In 2002, he joined the Tianjin national team. Lu's height is 172cm and weight is 77kg. In 2009, at the World Championships in Goyang ( South Korea), Lu Xiaojun won the gold medal, setting world records in the snatch and the combined snatch and clean and jerk of 174 kg and 378 kg, respectively. And at the 2012 Olympic Games, Lu Xiaojun won the gold medal, breaking the world records up to 175 kg (snatch) and up to 379 kg (sum of exercises). At the World Championships, he took 176 kg (snatch) and 380 kg (total).

Liao Hui joined the Chinese national weightlifting team in early 2007. At the 6th Chinese City Games in 2007, Liao (168cm tall) set two junior world records in the 69kg weight category and won the gold medal. On September 21, 2010, at the World Championships in Antalya, the athlete set world records in the clean and jerk and in the amount of exercises - 198 and 358 kg, respectively. A year later, it became known about the weightlifter's positive doping test. He was stripped of his gold medal and suspended until September 30, 2012. On November 10, 2014, at the World Championships in Alma-Ata, the athlete set a world record in the snatch - 166 kg. The previous record, set by Georgy Markov from Bulgaria, stood for 14 years.

Khalil Mutlu

Khalil Mutlu is an ethnic Turk, born in Bulgaria, but already in early age he returned to his historical homeland. He is 150 cm tall and weighs 55 kg. Between 1993 and 2005 (with the exception of 2002), Khalil Mutlu won at least one gold award major world or European tournament. Mutlu won victories at the Olympic Games with a large margin, ahead of his closest rivals by at least 7.5 kg. Mutlu is one of four weightlifters in the history of the Games who have become three-time Olympic champions.

North Korean weightlifter, 2012 Olympic champion in the 56 kg category (Om Yun Chol's height is 152 cm), 2014 world champion. On September 13, 2013, at a competition in Pyongyang, he set a world record in the clean and jerk - 169 kg. On September 20, 2014, at the Asian Games in Incheon, he improved the record to 170 kg.

Oleg Perepechyonov

Oleg's height is 167cm and weight is 77kg. Born on September 6, 1975 in Uzbekistan. In the international arena, he achieved his first great success in 2001, having won a gold medal in the 77 kg weight category at the 2001 European Championship and a silver medal at the 2001 World Championship.

On February 12, 2013, the International Olympic Committee disqualified the weightlifter's performance at the 2004 Olympics and deprived him of bronze medal. The reason was the positive results of the re-test of Perepechyonov's doping test (the presence of traces of clenbuterol, a drug for the treatment of asthma, which athletes use as a fat burner). Oleg Alexandrovich holds the world record in the category up to 77 kg in the clean and jerk - 210 kg.

Andrey Rybakov

Andrei was born on March 4, 1982 in Belarus. Rybakov is a two-time world champion in 2006 and 2007, a European champion in 2006, and a two-time Olympic silver medalist in 2004 and 2008. He performs in the weight category up to 85 kilograms, his height is 172 cm. He holds world records in the category up to 85 kg: in the snatch - 187 kg and in the sum of the snatch and clean and jerk - 394 kg.

Behdad Salimi

Salimi was born on December 8, 1989 in Iran, his height is 197 and his weight is 165kg. He is an Olympic champion, world champion in 2010 and 2011, set a world record in the snatch - 214 kg in his weight category. After the 2012 Olympics, a scandal erupted in the Iranian weightlifting team. Behdad Salimi and other members of the team protested against the national team's head coach Kourosh Bagheri, who used profanity during training. After controversy in live Salimi and Bagheri, the Iranian Weightlifting Federation banned the athlete from participating in the 2013 World and Asian Championships. Later, Bagheri was hospitalized with a nervous breakdown and Salimi visited him and reconciled, but when leaving the hospital, Salimi received a blow to the head from a supporter of the national team coach. Such passions reign in the world of weightlifting.