Rahmat's Epic Battle With Unknown North Korean Weightlifter 

Amazing… have North Korea 🇰🇵 been juicing the heck out of their lifters while not competing and this is why they being so east Germany in the last 6 months 😮

Short answer? Yes

​@@scottessery100I'm pretty sure they are not juicing more or less than any other team.

this was my exact thought. I'm stunned that he even got underneath it at all. Impressive.

It almost stopped at the second pull. His upper back is incredibly strong

As long as the second pull is fast enough, the first pull doesn’t need to be fast at all.

@@joalvarado8506 Yes, basically he hit 214kg hang clean

Big huevos to dive under that weight. U know a lot of lifters would have Clarke. He weighed about the same as when he did the 209, 76+ kg. To Chong was light also 78 kg.

Agree on this

exactly, he has been competing internationally for many years

2018 was a 73kg and did 155/187 Now, 78kg bw 165/209, I think he is more than ready to do 165-170 snatch 209-215 c&j 2024-->

The 374 total would have qualified him for Paris in the 89s if North Korea was eligible. He didn’t even fill out the class weighing 78 kg.

@@johndoherty-hh2ck yeah that was an absolutely outstanding battle to watch. Song-Chong's jerk was amazing.

Well he is unknown, isn't he? I sure as hell haven't heard of him prior to this. Plus, I'm sure "unknown" is kind of just a buzz word for clickbait. They had no malicious intentions.

@@s_e_t_z3248 I agree it was clickbait, that's the issue. A performance like that deserves name recognition in the title. This guy just came out of nowhere to establish himself as top tier.

Very true!

Maybe they’ll have it in 2028 alternating it every other Olympics 73/81 89/96 102/109. It really sucks that weightlifting can’t get all its classes in the Olympics but that’s what happens when you’ve been a bad boy. It wasn’t automatic that weightlifting got back in for LA 2028. Touch and go for a while.

@@johndoherty-hh2ck how can it not be a bad boy. They are not happy with drugs but at the same time without drugs nobody would watch weightlifting cause you would get at guys snatching 160kg for a WR in the superheavy category...

I’d still watch without drugs if I knew(a big if) everyone was on a level playing field.

@@johndoherty-hh2ck It won't be as fun to watch though because we've seen how far the human body can lift things with drugs. 400 kilogram total was the norm for heavyweights now it's not. There needs to be an untested side of weightlifting.

So we’ll find out who has the best chemists in the world?

Nassar 89 category

yes he is gonna compete as a 73kg in paris

Shouldn’t be an R in that country’s name. Nothing about North Korea suggests a republic. A D for dictatorship is more appropriate.

​@@johndoherty-hh2ckThe full name is the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. You know the one that doesn't have 30k foreign soldiers controlling them.

My guess is some sort of superstition that I dont care to elaborate 😅

North Korea's not eligible to compete at the Olympics cus they kicked WADA out of thier country so there's no unannounced testing of any of their athletes. They are literally only tested in competition. Why the IWF allows them to compete I do not know; it's probably this attitude that's getting weightlifting reduced and potentially kicked out of the Olympics. This is North Korea's big shabang whereas other athletes are saving their max peak for the Olympics.

NK lifter is qualified in 81 kg category so he will compete in 81 kg. Rahmat qualified in 73 kg & 81 kg category and Rahmat will choose 73 category in Paris

There’s no 81 kg class in Paris for men. Unfortunately for Ri Chong no North Korean weightlifters are eligible to compete because NK didn’t allow drug testing for about four years.

He's wearing weightlifting shoes, specifically the Asics 727, which are highly sought after and expensive.

Lmao, those are asics 727s rare shoes.. made to order thrice a year exclusively in Japan..

76.93

Frog stance

This whole competition the judges looked like they didn't care about elbow wobble. Multiple times already I've seen a lift and thought there's no way they'd pass it but they passed it anyway. Don't remember all but I remember Ritvars Suharevs looking pretty wobbly in his 180 clean and jerk but he got it anyway.

I'm glad they called it a good lift. That rule seems kind of unnecessary

@@durrantmiller8810I agree; I hate that rule but at the very least, it needs to be applied consistently, not super strict in some comps and whatever you need to to do get it lifted in other comps.

nah all good

IWF tryna make a point that they don't give a F about doping, only the Olympics, in which North Korea weightlifting is not eligible to appear at.

Similar to many japanese athletes

@@masayash Do you know why they lift like that? I would think it would be a less efficient way to load the posterior chain, but clearly not.

@@ComradeQuestion42069 Im not sure, but i think it's to do with clueing the legs to open sideways, when receiving the bar during snatch/clean, since there's no way that you could maintain that leg position when receiving the bar and still standing, youd be crushed😅

no, thats not Rizki's dad. Rizki is recovering from appendicitis surgery, set to return next year

@@masayash ok thank you for info, idk where i got that idea from

@@larryboi2706 well theyre both "well-built"

@@masayash is his father involved in coachning?

@@larryboi2706 to my knowledge, Rizki's father coaches Rizki personally, Im not sure if he coaches other national athletes as Rahmat's does

Rahmat is listed at 5'8", he's a freak of nature.

@@sandrost4243 tysm how can i see that info, searched but couldnt find anything

​@@sandrost4243yes we small small people,but we strong lmao

Yes

No one cares

У Эрвина Рахмата, несмотря на относительно медленную тягу, потом следует очень мощный подрыв с идеальным раскрытием и далее он очень точно принимает штангу, хорошо подворачивая локти и подставляя идеально прямую спину! Да, в этот раз 214(!!!) не удалось толкнуть с груди...но всё ещё впереди! Дуэль с корейцем была очень захватывающей.Будем ждать их следующей встречи.

And the porky dictator Kim is eating 10x that

nice try, cia

Imagine believing this nonsense about Best Korea.

​@@familyfununboxing8408what crap man.....

​​@@janedoe2509The feds are so much easier to spot nowadays. It's as if they aren't even trying anymore.

That was a Rahimov if anything.

Someone didn't watch the 89s

13 kg jumps are nothing for Karlos. He swung for the fence in the bottom of the ninth and knocked it out of the ballpark.