100 of the Top Weightlifters of All Time

He was the first Turk to win three consecutive Olympic Gold Medals in , and He also won 7 World Championships and 2 European Championships over the course of his career. Halil Mutlu is the most decorated Turkish sportsman in history. He is one of only three men in history to lift 3 times his own bodyweight.

He is also only the 4th weightlifter to win three consecutive gold medals in history. Pyrros Dimas is a Greek weightlifter who had won 3 back-to-back Golds from in the Olympic games. In his 4th Olympics in Athens , a knee injury hurt his chances to win another gold but he still managed to win a Bronze medal.

After winning the Bronze, in his hometown, Dimas left his shoes on the weightlifting podium marking his retirement from the sport. Regarded as the greatest Greek athlete of all time Dimas earned his place in history as one of the greatest Olympic weightlifters of all time. Sportskeeda 4 August Sports world records Olympic weightlifting records. Views Read Edit View history.

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Incheon , South Korea. Chiang Mai , Thailand. Anaheim , United States. Atlanta , United States. Busan , South Korea. Sokolov , Czech Republic.

Cardiff , United Kingdom. Seoul , South Korea.

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Tallinn , Soviet Union. Odessa , Soviet Union. Riga , Soviet Union. Munich , West Germany. Columbus , United States.

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Mexico City , Mexico. Ulm , West Germany. Sochi , Soviet Union. But in the moment, he found a way to make the lift that won him the bronze medal. And as I wrote then: The one event he did not win? He had never thrown one before. He finished third in the javelin throw anyway. He won anyway and, for a moment, became perhaps the most famous athlete in the United States. He promised to never go through all that again, but he returned four years later and won the decathlon by a staggering points, the largest gap in Olympic decathlon history. That year he also played fullback for Stanford making him the only man to win an Olympic gold medal and play in the Rose Bowl in the same year.

He was famous for his brutal workouts, which is what you might expect from an athlete who swept the 5, and 10,meters at consecutive Olympics. In , Viren was bumped in the 12th lap of the 10,meter run and he fell to the ground. He got back up and won the gold medal. Seven days later he won the 5, meters. Seven days after that, he went to a track meet in Helsinki — and broke the 5,meter world record. The only man to sweep the and meters at the same Olympics. How fast was he going when he hit the corner in the meters? There was a big hill at the end of the road.

And I could make that go-kart go downhill so fast, it was like flying. He won three consecutive gold medals — first for the Soviet Union, then for the Unified Team, then for Russia. Won 12 medals, four of them gold, including the individual all-around title in It should have been 13 medals. In , when Nemov was 28 and viewed as the old man of gymnastics, he put together a staggeringly difficult routine on the high bar. The crowd got it. The judges did not. And booed some more.

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And booed more more. For 15 minutes, they booed so loud that the competition was stopped and the judges hastily got together to talk it over. It was one of the most glorious Olympic moments, especially because it followed one of the worst. In , he did something that will never be done again — he won the 5,meter, the 10,meter AND the marathon at the same Olympics. He was so baffled about how to run a marathon that he apparently walked up to British world record older Jim Peters, thrust out his hand, and introduced himself: In , Zatopek had beaten him in the 10,meters by a minute and a half, a beating so thorough that it is said Peters never ran the 10, meters again.

Peters retreated to the safety of the marathon. Now here was Zatopek again, though Peters did not see him as a serious contender in a marathon. An hour into the race, Zatopek pulled alongside Peters and asked if the pace was too fast. She contracted polio and scarlet fever as a child. She wore a brace until she was 9. She grew up in segregated Tennessee and was, in her younger days, painfully shy. So how did Wilma Rudolph became the fastest woman in the world? She would say that she was inspired by Jesse Owens.

He never turned professional so we will never know for certain where Stevenson would have ranked in the stratosphere of great heavyweights with Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano and the like. His greatest individual moment was when he upset American Duane Bobick at the Olympics — up to that point, the U. Stevenson knocked out all five contenders at the Olympics.

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On July 16, , Florence Griffith-Joyner ran a Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. This remains the world record. She won five gold medals in total, but what Nadia is remembered for is perfection. The heptathlon events include: The meter hurdles, high jump, shot-put, meters, long jump, javelin throw and meters. When Jackie Joyner Kersee won the heptathlon in , she was by far the best female athlete in the world. She already had the five best heptathlon scores ever recorded.

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She was a star college basketball player. And six days after she put the heptathlon record up where no one has even come close, she went out and won the long jump. Four years later, she won the heptathlon again. Four years after that, she won another bronze in the long jump.

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He once won the 5,meter and the 1,meter on the same day. He set Olympic records in both. He was famously intense; my favorite Nurmi fact is that when Zatopek, who would win the 5,, 10, and marathon at the same Olympics, felt like he was spent he would shout to the heavens: In , he failed to win a single individual event, even though he was the prohibitive and world record-holder in the meter butterfly and the best swimmer coming into the meter freestyle.

He came in claiming he would win six golds, he left Mexico City with two golds, both relays.