*"Leonid Arkadevich Taranenko is a former Soviet/Belarusian weightlifter and coach. His 266 kg clean and jerk in 1988 is the heaviest lift in competition, though it is no longer an official world record due to subsequent restructuring of weight classes."* *How does this OFFICIAL lift simply DISAPPEAR from records because of the "restructuring of weight classes"? Absurd!*
Он выступал в категории «свыше 110 кг», сейчас она называется «свыше 109 кг», так ведь 110 кг - это и есть больше 109 кг! Этот рекорд должен быть защитан и в современной системе! Полностью с вами согласен!
@@anthead7405 WHOA!!! Thanks for telling me. I had to go find the video. He's amazing!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wOotbKjPdNY.html
I can confirm...its the strongest lifter of all times..(he was able to clean/jerk over 250kgs at more 40 years(and Tara smoked between 30 and 40.cigaret per day .)
Naim Suleymanoglu is the strongest lifter of all time (509 pt Sinclair Coefficient). Taranenko's best performance (this one) puts him in 26th place with 480 pt Sinclair Coefficient so he cannot be considered the strongest of all time. We can say that he lifted the greatest amount of weight in a competition but even then, Pisarenko did lift 265 kg and weighed less than Taranenko. Pisarenko reached 484 pts (12th place) when he lifted 265 kg.
Don Derondon naim was a dwarf pretty much, the weight had to travel a very small distance. Obviously still extremely storng but i do not consider him the strongest.
Lift the weight of three adult men off the floor and over your head, breaking your own world record, and walk off stage without even acknowledging the audience. That's *style*.
IS TARANENKO'S 266 A VALID LIFT ? HE PRESSED OUT AT LEFT ARM AND HIS ELBOW LOCKED OUT A FEW TIMES. ALSO AFTER THE LIFT THEY DIDN'T DISPLAY THE WHITES OR REDS ON THE BOARD ????????
IS TARANENKO'S 266 A VALID LIFT ? HE PRESSED OUT AT LEFT ARM AND HIS ELBOW LOCKED OUT A FEW TIMES. ALSO AFTER THE LIFT THEY DIDN'T DISPLAY THE WHITES OR REDS ON THE BOARD ????????
All time best C&J lifters: 1.) Taranenko 266 kg (1988) 2.) Pisarenko 265 kg (1984) 3.) Rezazadeh 263 kg (263,5 kg) (2004)= current WR 4.) Chemerkin 262,5 kg (1997) 5.) Didyk 261 kg (1983) 6.) Marchuk 260 kg (1982) 7.) Kurlovich 260 kg (1983) 8.) Nerlinger 260 kg (1988) 9.) Weller 260 kg (1998) 10.) Hyun Kim 260 kg (2000) 11.) Scerbatihs 260 kg (2003) 12.) Steiner 258 kg (2008) 13.) Aleksejev 256 kg (1977)
Lasha 264kg 2019 , Lasha will out lift every lifter you mentioned Tex , Lasha has snatch 220kg twice and he has snatch 2015 or more countless times. Lasha will go down as not only the greatest super but greatest lifter of all time.
@@martinfiay8908 this list is about C&J, not about snatch. Though Lasha should be on this list with his 264 kg, and no doubt he is a great lifter. But Taranenko's 266 kg is still the best lift ever.
Tonio Yahn not according to the Olympics, Taranenko used to compete for the USSR but he never did more than 247.5kg I think at the olympics. The olympic record is 263.5kg set in Athens 2004 by Hossein Rezazadeh of Iran
Tonio Yahn said World Record no Olympic, he is right Taranenko has the heaviest C & J of all time, but after Weight Categories change it is no longer recognized, which is absurd
This world record was official. They removed the weight classes of his time and replaced them with new ones, which is the one and only reason they made his world record unofficial, which is utter bullshit. Rezazadeh's record of 263.5 kg is one of the highest lifts ever, but Taranenko's lift is just higher.
The Soviets fucked over their athletes left and right: pumped em full of roids--this guy included--and then punished him when he didn't tow the line. That's why he's lifting here in the potato chip classic. Whole system was bat shit crazy. Still is with Putin. Country is a giant prison. Even Alexeev kept upping his world records in half kilo increments so he could make a decent buck. Sad
Lol where do the thumbs down come from on a video like this? Has to be jealousy. Its not like this is a beiber video. Its a showcase of the most elite athletic display of power in the world. Man..people really get childish and pathetic when they're sitting in front of their keyboards. Makes me embarrassed to be human
Taranenko 266kg November 26th 1988, Canberra, Australia. Still the heaviest C&J ever lifted in official competition, following Lasha Talakhadze 265kg C&J WR at Tokyo Olympics on August 4th 2021.
he will lift that next year, and in 2 years he will break the record, he just breaks records by 1 kilos so that he gets the bonus on every record break!
World record (now unofficial) by lifting a barbell in the clean and jerk belongs to Soviet weightlifter Leonid Taranenko. In November 1988 in Canberra (Australia) he was able to take the weight of 266 kg. However, in 1992, the IWF (international weightlifting Federation) has changed weight category, thus would be "erased" this world record. But in the book of Guinness world records and today he is considered unsurpassed.
It was a press out. If it was a more important event, the judges would have never given him the lift. Still impressive though, but I wouldn't say it's a valid lift.
After years of watching Olympic lifters I can only begin to comprehend how much power and strength it takes to clean and jerk 585lbs pounds. Most people won't understand what they're witnessing here.
Long ago, a few short years after Alekseyev first lifted 500 lbs, I had been powerlifting and Olympic lifting a short time (148 lb class) and one day tried just rolling a bar loaded to 500 lbs a couple feet. I gained a whole other magnitude of awe for what he’d accomplished. Everyone interested in lifting should try something similar just to see how insanely heavy that much weight is, especially the thought of trying to put it overhead.
Rezazadeh is also referred to by weightlifting commentators as "the strongest man in the world", primarily due to his world records in the olympics. He currently holds the world record in weightlifting's super heavyweight class in the clean and jerk and total. Leonid Taranenko 266Kg his record is not recognized by the International Weightlifting Federation. Hossein Rezazadeh 270kg Front squat record is not recognized too.
Razazadeh has not a single record. He only has the C&Y left, but that was below Taranenko, who still holds both the C&Y and total record in the open class.
Still watching this in 2018...30 years later and just as incredible as it was then! No knee wraps or sleeves......Ouch! That hurts just watching it!.....
256 and Alexeev (1977) was very easy, I heard. He could lift a lot of more. What I read he has a lot of pure strength. He was perhaps strongest weightlifter ever!
I still cannot understand why this man and Piserenco are not in the record books as they both lifted more than Rezazedeh??? Super heavyweight means just that doesnt it? He isnt even listed in the lower weight class. Someone please explain this to me.
MrMegadipper They’re not; there is strict testing nowadays. As for the original question, perhaps the event wasn’t recognized. Not all events are officially recognized by the IWF, and lifts in those events are not registered in IWF records.
Vladimir Yemelyanov Yes, I know, but the original comment mentioned Rezazdeh, so I think he meant it wasn’t registered at the time they both competed, long before the weight classes were changed and the records expunged.
for English speakers at the bottom of my comment translation Леонид Тараненко один из величайших тяжело атлетов его труд и вклад в тяжелую атлетику невозможно оценить. Со слов самого атлета ему за этот рекорд дали всего лишь 4000 советских рублей, а автомобиль лада 2101 стоил тогда 6000 даже машину такую машину не мог купить за олимпийское золото, в которой он бы все равно не поместился. Вот так ценили наших спортсменов, выезжали на голом патриотизме. А сейчас футболисты пинают мяч за миллионы долларов США а что с них толку. Leonid Taranenko one of the greatest hard athletes his work and contribution to weightlifting can not be estimated. According to the athlete himself, for this record they gave only 4,000 Soviet rubles, and the Lada 2101 car then cost 6,000 even a car such a machine could not buy for Olympic gold, in which it would still not fit. This is how our athletes were valued, they traveled on the bare patriotism. And now the players are kicking the ball for millions of dollars and what's the use of it?
Its on of best person in personal life.i confirm....and keep at mind its a normal 5'10" guy...giant for his strenght but he have same height of normal guy .the Mike Tyson if lifters .lol a true exemple for all little men with dream to be super heavy weight champ !!!! TARANENKO...(with Krastev Reding and haman and a few other) give hope for all lifters...
That was absolutely amazing, the bend in that bar was frightening. I noticed the weight disk on the end was spinning during the lift, I bet that didn't help with his balancing?
I think you may be right. It is pretty hard to two or three guys together that are all strong enough to lift that much. If the competition isn't stiff enough, the best lifter usually doesn't push himself to the limit.
I think I saw Talakhadze lift ~264 if I'm not mistaken and made it look easy, this one might actually be broken soon ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eERSK3ezVYA.html
***** yes Tara 1m77 on match sheet (official Moscow Oly Games book when he was in under 110 class.) for Anton Krastev he claims 1m75...and its true i see him in Sofia !
***** but apparence can differe of true Height...Stephan Botev and Hossein Rezazadeh look short...they have 6' and 6'1" ...bonk or Pavlacek look like littles guys....two exceed 6'2" !!!
IS TARANENKO'S 266 A VALID LIFT ? HE PRESSED OUT AT LEFT ARM AND HIS ELBOW LOCKED OUT A FEW TIMES. ALSO AFTER THE LIFT THEY DIDN'T DISPLAY THE WHITES OR REDS ON THE BOARD ????????
Не даром Леониду Тараненко снилось : он поднимает штангу , а гриф ломается ! Вес просто чудовищный - то , что было в подходе на 245 кг и 266 кг - разница колоссальная , и впрямь - гриф угрожающе выгнулся !
На Олимпиаде в Токио этот вес скорее всего перебьет Лаша Талахадзе. Ну, или повторит, как минимум. Сейчас за каждый мировой рекорд дают неплохие деньги, поэтому по чуть-чуть повышают сумму. 264 кг он поднял и с запасом, думаю, Талахадзе может поднять 270 на олимпиаде, если захочет.
Leonid Taranenko didn't compete in Seoul so that he did all his best there in the same year. I imagine what would happen if Bulgarian team didn't fail the tests in Seoul - Taranenko, Krastev and Kurlovich all together powerful as never! I think we would see c&j about 270 kg. The same thing in 110 class with Stefan Botev.
@@sylotiboy4166 It was a press out. The fact that the judges didn't catch it, doesn't change that. As impressive as the lift is, it is an ugly lift. Happy that Lasha will soon make this lift unimportant.
@@Alnivol666 Saying that Lasha will make this lift unimportant is stupid. Even if Lasha would beat this lift, that wouldn't make this lift unimportant. It's history of weightlifting.
@@Alnivol666 Nope. This is sports. In sports what counts is what the judges decide in the spot, not what you or me judge years later, even if the judges' decission was incorrect. It's the same with football, it happens all the time with penalties not seen by the referees. These decissions can turn the score to one side or the opposite. I hope my bad English is understood.
Он выступал в категории «свыше 110 кг», сейчас она называется «свыше 109 кг», так ведь 110 кг - это и есть больше 109 кг! Этот рекорд должен быть защитан и в современной системе!
The highest ratio of all current World Records is 3 (Clean and Jerk 168 kg @ 56 kg weight division). And the guy is 150 cm tall (4'11") and the record is over 11 years old so it's bloody hard to beat.
After this, Taranenko moved up to the super-heavyweight class. Lifting in Canberra, Australia on November 26, 1988, he set a world record of 266.0 kg in the clean and jerk, and 475.0 kg in the total. Due to the restructuring of the competitive weight classes that took place in 1993 and 1998, these lifts are no longer recognized as the official world records. However, these remain the highest figures ever posted in competition.
When he's catching the clean he raises his elbows up, which lifts his shoulders and makes it so the bar is caught on his shoulder muscles instead of landing on the clavicle.
Torin Rudeen Still part of the weight rests on the clavicle. It depends a lot on the shoulder muscle mass. For those where the clavicles gets the brunt of the weight, as they lift more and more, a thick layer of tissue builds up softening the effect. I know this because I used to practice weightlifting and my trainer had such a thick callus that it looked like a growth.
@rusmex19881991 Hi there, yes they did load the bar but he didn't come out to take the lift. Zak' lifted 212.5kg, then 217.5kg then missed the jerk at 220kg. Kurl' lifted 220kg then 230kg like toothpicks then declined third. His snatches were very easy- 180kg, 185kg then 190kg with customary twisting to the right when recovering with weight. Kind regards
Taranenko was an absolute monster. He used to do jump squats with 120kgs and 3x300kg fronts for with three second pauses. Sadly we will never know of his true strength as he never maxed out in training and was only really challenged by kurlovich at the time. He was planning to hit 270 in Athens but never competed.
Леонид Тараненко один из величайших тяжело атлетов его труд и вклад в тяжелую атлетику невозможно оценить. Со слов самого атлета ему за этот рекорд дали всего лишь 4000 советских рублей, а автомобиль лада 2101 стоил тогда 6000 даже машину такую машину не мог купить за олимпийское золото, в которой он бы все равно не поместился. Вот так ценили наших спортсменов, выезжали на голом патриотизме. А сейчас футболисты пинают мяч за миллионы долларов США а что с них толку.
It always left me dumbfounded that when the former weight classes were revised, the world records for those classes were shelved and no longer recognized. What a discredit to these impressive athletes, who did so much to put Olympic lifting on the map. Taranenko, Kurlovich, Pisarenko....all were part of the near legendary Soviet team that dominated the sport for years and brought us some of the most exciting moments in lifting history. The lifters of the '70s and '80s will forever be my favorites (I don't even follow the current crop now), and as far as I'm concerned, this record IS the gold standard.
