Blagoy Blagoev was a Bulgarian Weightlifter competing internationally from 1976 until his retirement in 1984.
Blagoy won 2 silver medals at the Olympics, the first in 1976 in Montreal but this was stripped due to being popped. He again won silver in 1980 in Moscow competing in the -82.5 Kg category. He won the World Championships 3 times as a -90 Kg lifter and got silver twice at -82.5 Kg. He won the European Championship 4 times and got silver twice.
During his career Blagoy competed as a -82.5 Kg, -90 Kg, and -100 Kg lifter. He found most of his success internationally as a -90 Kg lifter. While being a -82.5 Kg lifter he unfortunately had to compete against one of the best weightlifters of all time in Yuri Vardanyan.
Blagoy is known as one of the best snatchers in history due to him snatching more than 100 Kg over his body weight. Others like Lu Xiaojun and Yury Zakharevich were able to snatch exactly 100 Kg over their weight category snatching 177 and 210 respectively. Blagoy was able to snatch 105.5 Kg over his weight category. He was able to snatch weights that super heavyweights were doing while only being half their body weight.
During his career he set 18 World Records with 13 of them being in the snatch. He still has the heaviest middle heavyweight snatch of all time and would be setting World Records in the -102 Kg category today while weighing 12 Kg less. The IWF declared him the best weightlifter in the world in 1982 and 1983.
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