82,5 kg - 1986 Weightlifting World Championships - Sofia, Bulgaria

[@charlessavoie2367]

Vardanian got the most hype but zlatev lifted more in the 82.5 class!

[@stephenb7704]

Yeah, too bad he didn't get to compete in 1988 in Seoul!

[@АлексейМакаров-у2в]

Спасибо за видео!

[@haroldpepete]

great video, that video is the best proof that iwf nowadays record is just marketing strategy, this guy would destroy 82 current category and even 89 and 96 category, it's amazing how someone with 82 body weight is able to lift 225, woahhhh

[@user-tz9jh6pv2j]

I guarantee you take any of the medal winners today and give them the same conditions (no drug testing at all), they would easily beat them.

[@haroldpepete]

@@user-tz9jh6pv2j and you think that today's athletes don't use drugs, even lasha was got popped one time

[@РадославДаскалов-ь3ю]

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[@alejandromagnobarrasa9244]

What cut out the 180 snatch man oh well thanks for the whole comp though

[@ozwunder69]

in the old days when you stop recording the tape would rewind about 3 or 4 seconds... if you started recording again you got clipped

[@gikaradi8793]

everybody now and back then uses healthy fruit juice! otherwise best snatch would be 120 130 kgs tops and cj in the range of 160 ! The big guys would do 140/180 kgs The remarkable thing with the Bulgarians and the Russians was the approach to training and juicing !FUNtastic vid

[@ГерманУстинов-з1х]

Super💯 life!!

[@dillonsong5551]

This is crazy. Lu xiao jun couldn’t even get a medal!!!

[@user-tz9jh6pv2j]

lol they didn't drug test at all back then. Lu would be putting up insane numbers.

[@grobpote]

@@user-tz9jh6pv2j They actually did. You had to give urine samples naked in a room with mirrored walls. Not to say they didn't take a lot of drugs but Lu is not clean either...

[@tjbanville]

@@user-tz9jh6pv2j In competition drug testing existed, but no out of competition testing at all. That being said, the information that has come out over the last couple years about bribery and corruption in the IWF makes it hard to determine if today's athletes are legitimately passing OOC tests as well. In that sense, the 80s rules might be more fair and equal than what we have now.

[@charlessavoie2367]

6:53 Stoichkov had better results at 75!

[@VincentComet-l8e]

Great lifting - a 405kg total at 90kg is not to be sneezed at! I was struck by the excellent back development of these lifters. And was impressed by their lats - but you wouldn’t think they are that involved in lifting a weight from the floor…?

[@АлексейАнохин-д7ы]

25 лет до этого чемпионата такие веса были подвластны только власову

[@ВикторКураев-г4м]

Химия бессмертна была и будет всегда

[@maxjusto3301]

the 80s was the gold era of steroids in weightlifting. but guys were strong indeed.

[@bgallegos43]

You guys have to realize, these guys were on every steroid imaginable, steroid testing was no such thing, if they had testing all these guys would get popped lol

[@luiscalderon7383]

Everyone is still on steroids

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