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Hepburn entered competition in 1948, and set an unofficial Canadian record (300 lbs. clean & press) at his first competition. He took the U.S. Open title in 1947, by pressing 345 lbs. Hepburn set another Canadian weightlifting record in 1950 and went on to win a gold medal at the 1953 World Weightlifting Championships in Stockholm with a 1030 lbs Olympic 3-lift-total. [3]
^5 The IWF website still lists Tatiana Kachirina's records of 155 kg in the snatch, 193 kg in the clean and jerk and 348 kg in total, who was later disqualified for doping. ^6 It was not an official world record, but the best result, equal to the world record until then, and the Asian record in that period.
The clean and press is a two-part weight training exercise whereby a loaded barbell is lifted from the floor to the shoulders (the clean) and pushed overhead (the press). The lift was a component of the sport of Olympic weightlifting from 1928 to 1972, but was removed due to difficulties in judging proper technique.
This is the list of Olympic records in weightlifting.Records are maintained in each weight class for the snatch lift, clean and jerk lift, and the total for both lifts.. The weight classes for men on the Olympic program were adjusted for the 2000 Games, so Olympic records only exist based on the results during and after that. [1]
Anderson's early record in Olympic Weightlifting was similarly impressive: from an 800 lb (362.9 kg) three lift (clean and press, snatch, clean and jerk) total in Chattanooga, he progressed to 875 lb (396.9 kg) on March 21, 1953 and again to 940 lbs (426.4 kg) at the Junior National Championships in Cleveland, Ohio on May 17.
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Records are maintained in each weight class for the snatch lift, clean and jerk lift, and the total for both lifts. The International Weightlifting Federation restructured its weight classes in 1993, 1998 and 2018, nullifying earlier records. In the 102kg category no weightlifter has yet surpassed the "World standard" specified as the minimum ...