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[4] 55 kg Snatch 104 kg Kang Hyon-gyong North Korea 4 February 2024 Asian Championships: Tashkent, Uzbekistan [8] Clean & Jerk 131 kg 2 April 2024 World Cup: Phuket, Thailand [4] Total 234 kg 59 kg Snatch 111 kg Kim Il-gyong North Korea 2 October 2023 Asian Games: Hangzhou, China [15] Clean & Jerk 141 kg 9 December 2024 World Championships ...
Highland games one arm weight over bar – 25.5 kg (56 lb) over 6.17 metres (20 ft 3 in) (2022 Rogue Invitational) (World Record) [106] Hafþór has broken this world record a total of 12 times ever since he did it first with 5.85 metres (19 ft 2 in) at 2014 New Hampshire Highland Games [107] [10] [108] [109] [110]
He remained physically fit well into old age, and at 56 he could jump over a 4-foot, 6-inch high board ten times. Even through his mid-80s, he would jump fifty times over a chair once a week, bench press 150 pounds and run seven miles in 45 minutes. [20]
A split snatch being performed. Split snatch was the common form of snatch before squat snatch was popularized by lifters such as Pete George and Dave Sheppard. [3] [4] In the split snatch, the lifter lifts the bar as high as possible and pulls themselves under the bar similar to the squat snatch but in the split snatch the lifter "splits" their legs, placing one foot in front of them and one ...
Talk began of a televised match between the two athletes and Anderson began training the Olympic lifts; at an exhibition at a children's' hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee, he pressed 422.5 lb (191.6 kg), snatched 347.5 lb (157.6 kg), and clean and jerked 422.5 lb (191.6 kg) for a new personal best of 1,192.5 lb (540.9 kg).
One day, when four-time World's Strongest Man champion Magnús Ver Magnússon spotted the twenty-year-old, 6 ft 9 in, 140 kg (309 lb) Hafþór deadlifting in his gym, "Jakaból", he immediately realized his potential as a good prospect for strongman, [37] which paved the way for Hafþór to train with Stefán Sölvi Pétursson, Benedikt ...
The No. 10 Broncos put No. 20 UNLV away in the first half on the way to a 21-7 win in the Mountain West Conference championship game on Friday night. The win was fittingly sealed at the end of the ...
Standard Deadlift bar, Power bar, Ironmind S-cubed Stiff bar and Flintstone bar depending on the evolution of the sport, b.) lifts from standard 9 inch height only (except for 2011-2013 when a 1 inch deficit was introduced), c.) both figure 6 and figure 8 (F8) straps, and d.) both single-ply (S) and multi-ply (M) deadlift suits.