Hossein Rezazadeh
Nicknamed “The Iranian Hercules”, he currently holds the world records in weightlifting’s super heavyweight class in the snatch, clean and jerk and total. He is the first Iranian athlete to have won two Olympic gold medals.
Physical profile
Bodyweight: 156.6 Kg (2004 Olympics)
Height: 6 foot 1 inch (1.86 metres)
His Coach is: Dr.
Weightlifting Videos:
Mohammad Ali Shahi
Career Bests
Clean and Jerk: 263.5 Kg in Athens on August 25th, 2004; the current world record
Snatch: 213.0 Kg in Qinhuangdao on September 14th, 2003; the current world record
Total: 472.0 Kg (about 475 sinclair points) in Sydney on September 26th, 2000 ; the current world record
Front Squat: 320.0 kg
Back Squat: 400.0 kg
Weightlifting Information:
The weightlifting competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki consisted of seven weight classes all for men only. The middle-heavyweight division was a newly created weight class moving the heavyweight class up from 82.5 kg to 90 kg. The events were held at Messuhalli.
Medal summary
Event
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Bantamweight
56 kg
Ivan Udodov
Soviet Union (URS)
Mahmoud Namjoo
Iran (IRI)
Ali Mirzaei
Iran (IRI)
Featherweight
5660 kg
Rafael Chimishkyan
Soviet Union (URS)
Nikolai Saksonov
Soviet Union (URS)
Rodney Wilkes
Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)
Lightweight
6067.5 kg
Tommy Kono
United States (USA)
Yevgeni Lopatin
Soviet Union (URS)
Verdi Barberis
Australia (AUS)
Middleweight
67.575 kg
Peter George
United States (USA)
Grald Gratton
Canada (CAN)
Kim Sung-Jip
South Korea (KOR)
Light-heavyweight
7582.5 kg
Trofim Lomakin
Soviet Union (URS)
Stanley Stanczyk
United States (USA)
Arkadi Vorobyev
Soviet Union (URS)
Middle-heavyweight
82.590 kg
Norbert Schemansky
United States (USA)
Grigori Novak
Soviet Union (URS)
Lennox Kilgour
Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)
Heavyweight
90 kg
John Davis
United States (USA)
James Bradford
United States (USA)
Humberto Selvetti
Argentina (ARG)
Medal table
Rank
Nation
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
1
United States (USA)
4
2
0
6
2
Soviet Union (URS)
3
3
1
7
3
Iran (IRI)
