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The official record is 472.5 kilos, lifted by the Iranian Hossein Rezazadeh, that nice chubby guy in the photo on the side. But that staggering number isn’t the total amount lifted at one time by the guy – no human being can sustain that much weight. There are two types of lifting in weightlifting contests – snatch and throw – and the champion is the one who lifts more kilos in the sum of these two types. It is from this sum that the 472.5 kilos of the record arise. The drawings below give an idea of how the competition works:
In the start, the athlete has to lift the bar from the floor at once, until his arms and legs are completely stretched out for at least two seconds.
In the snare, the lift is divided into two phases: first, the barbell is supported on the chest, and then it is lifted above the head.
Did you get it out? So let’s go back to the case of our record holder. At the Athens Olympics, he first lifted 210 kilograms in the start. Afterwards, he broke his own world record in the clean and jerk, with 262.5 kg, and came up with a total of 472.5 kg. No wonder that, in his homeland, the Iranian Rezazadeh is also known as Hercules…