Iranian Behdad Salimi named 2010 World Best Lifter

[Nariman]

TEHRAN, Feb. 26 (MNA) -- Iranian heavyweight lifter Behdad Salimi has been chosen in the annual Lifters of the Year Voting of the World Weightlifting magazine by the weightlifting community as the Best Male Lifter of 2010.

http://www.mehrnews.com/en/newsdetai...NewsID=1262157

[Ata]

Mashallah =) We hope he can take an olympic gold =)

[EKBATAN]

land of pahlevans....even without hosseini and rezazadeh, we manage to have the strongest man

[Adesor Vafaseya]

he reminds me of my own youth.

[Paradigm]

Here is Taranenko pulling up 266 kg:

[Adesor Vafaseya]

Here is Taranenko pulling up 266 kg:

so he beat Reazazadeh's record of Clean and Jerk: 263.5 kg in Athens 2004?

[Paradigm]

so he beat Reazazadeh's record of Clean and Jerk: 263.5 kg in Athens 2004?

Rezazadeh has the olympic record I believe, but not the world record. Taranenko set his in 1988 long before Rezazadeh came along but it was not in an olympic competition. There is also claim that the snatch record was set in 1987 to be 216 kg:

[Adesor Vafaseya]

Rezazadeh has the olympic record I believe, but not the world record. Taranenko set his in 1988 long before Rezazadeh came along but it was not in an olympic competition. There is also claim that the snatch record was set in 1987 to be 216 kg:

as far as my sexy brain serves me Rezazadeh held both the olympic record as well as the world record.... anyway if this chap has weighted 266, then it highr than Rezazadeh's record.

[Babak agha]

Because they didn't have strict doping controls back then, Taranenko's record isn't counted anymore. Only records that are still valid are the ones that were set after the new rules of doping control were taking into practice. Hence Rezazadeh has both the world and the Olympic record. He lost his snatch world record to the very same Salimi though.
And I'm pretty sure of this, if the mustache of amoo was allowed to lift, it would crush all the records.

[Paradigm]

They did have doping tests in 1988, anyone recall that Canadian 100-m sprinter (Ben Johnson) who was disqualified in the Seoul 1988 olympics?

Records aside, there are at east two lifters who took up 266 kg. Taranenko is one of them, he has also 265.5 kg with plenty of video footage available.

Check out http://totalphysiqueonline.com/2008/...nko-revisited/ -- The guy apparently even lifted 270 kg but that is not a registered competition result.

[zand]

rezazadeh has all the world records. here is the source:

http://www.iwf.net/

[Adesor Vafaseya]

^
thanks for clarification!

And I'm pretty sure of this, if the mustache of amoo was allowed to lift, it would crush all the records.

this is true, people who know me, know I lift every Thursday night in our cellar 290 kgs.....

[IranFootball10]

is Rezazadeh currently the head or supervisor of the Lifting federation?

[Babak agha]

rezazadeh has all the world records. here is the source:
http://www.iwf.net/

That's strange, because Salimi did break his record just recently.

[Nariman]

That's strange, because Salimi did break his record just recently.

Thats true:
http://www.persianfootball.com/forum...ad.php?t=94024