Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
David Adamovich Rigert (Russian: Давид Ада́мович Ри́герт; born 12 March 1947) is a retired Soviet weightlifter and weightlifting coach of Austrian ancestry. During his career he set 65 ratified world records and won an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and six world titles. [ 3 ]
David Rigert Soviet Union: 24 December 1972 USSR Cup Sochi, Soviet Union: Clean & Jerk 201.0 kg David Rigert Soviet Union: 24 December 1972 USSR Cup Sochi, Soviet Union: Total 527.5 kg Valery Shary Soviet Union: 14 May 1972 Moscow, Soviet Union: 90 kg Press 198.0 kg David Rigert Soviet Union: 13 July 1972 Baltic Cup Riga, Soviet Union: Snatch ...
Rank Name Country kg 1: David Rigert Soviet Union 382.5 2: Lee James United States 362.5 3: Atanas Shopov Bulgaria 360.0 4: György Rehus-Uzor Hungary 350.0 5: Peter Petzold East Germany
David Rigert Soviet Union: 172.5 kg Sergey Poltoratsky Soviet Union: 162.5 kg Jaakko Kailajärvi Finland: 160.0 kg Clean & Jerk David Rigert Soviet Union: 215.0 kg WR: Sergey Poltoratsky Soviet Union: 205.0 kg Andon Nikolov Bulgaria: 202.5 kg Total David Rigert Soviet Union: 387.5 kg WR: Sergey Poltoratsky Soviet Union: 367.5 kg Peter Petzold
The weightlifting competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal consisted of nine weight classes, all for men only. The clean and press was dropped from the included lifts after the 1972 games in Munich, due to disagreement over proper form. The Games of 1976 were the first Olympics to start testing for anabolic steroids, although ...
After setting an Olympic record with 187.5 kg in the press, Rigert failed in all three attempts at 160 kg in the snatch, despite holding the world record at 167.5 kg. Rigert was so upset that he literally pulled his hair out and banged his head against a well.
David Rigert Soviet Union: 177.5 kg Snatch David Rigert Soviet Union: 162.5 kg Vasily Kolotov Soviet Union: 155.0 kg Bo Johansson Sweden: 155.0 kg Clean & Jerk David Rigert Soviet Union: 202.5 kg Vasily Kolotov Soviet Union: 197.5 kg Rick Holbrook United States: 197.5 kg Total David Rigert Soviet Union: 542.5 kg Vasily Kolotov Soviet Union
The 1970 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Columbus, Ohio, United States from September 12 to September 20, 1970. There were 129 men from 28 nations in the competition. Nine weightlifters (Sandor Holczreiter, Walter Szoltysek, Vladimir Smetanin, Imre Földi, Henryk Trebicki, Miecyslaw Nowak, Jan Wojnowski, Yoshiyuki Miyake ...