Anatoly Grigor'evich Pisarenko (Ukrainian: Анатолій Григорович Писаренко, Russian: Анатолий Григорьевич Писаренко; born January 10, 1958) is a former Olympic weightlifter for the USSR. He was born in Kyiv, where he trained at Dynamo.
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Birth name | Anatoly Grigor'evich Pisarenko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Kyiv, Soviet Union | 10 January 1958|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 120 kg (265 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | +110 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pisarenko held multiple world records in the snatch and clean and jerk, and was named weightlifting's "most iconic athlete" by Weightlifting House in 2023.[1] After Pisarenko was caught with Aleksandr Kurlovich in possession of steroids by the Canadian customs in 1985, he was given a lifetime ban by the Soviet Weightlifting Federation.[2]
Major results
editYear | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
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1981[a] | Lille, France | +110 kg | 187.5 | 237.5 | 425 | |||||||
1982[a] | Ljubljana, SFR Yugoslavia | +110 kg | 197.5 | 247.5 | 445 | |||||||
1983[a] | Moscow, Soviet Union | +110 kg | 205 | 245 | 450 | |||||||
European Championships | ||||||||||||
1984 | Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain | +110 kg | 200 | 250 | 450 |
- a This tournament was counted as European Weightlifting Championships of the corresponding year.
World records by Anatoly Pisarenko
editHe set thirteen World records in career.[3]
Year | Lift type | Result | Weight class | Location |
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1981 | Snatch | 201.5 kg | Super heavyweight | Podolsk |
1981 | Total (2) | 447.5 kg | Super heavyweight | Podolsk |
1982 | Snatch | 202.5 kg | Super heavyweight | Dnipropetrovsk |
1982 | Clean and jerk | 258.0 kg | Super heavyweight | Frunze |
1982 | Clean and jerk | 258.5 kg | Super heavyweight | Dnipropetrovsk |
1982 | Total (2) | 450.0 kg | Super heavyweight | Frunze |
1982 | Total (2) | 455.0 kg | Super heavyweight | Frunze |
1982 | Total (2) | 457.5 kg | Super heavyweight | Dnipropetrovsk |
1983 | Snatch | 203.0 kg | Super heavyweight | Odessa |
1983 | Snatch | 205.0 kg | Super heavyweight | Moscow |
1983 | Snatch | 206.0 kg | Super heavyweight | Moscow |
1983 | Clean and jerk | 260.5 kg | Super heavyweight | Allentown |
1984 | Clean and jerk | 265.0 kg | Super heavyweight | Varna |
References
edit- ^ PISARENKO | Weightlifting's Most Iconic Athlete, retrieved 2023-03-28
- ^ Wilson, Wayne; Derse, Edward, eds. (2001). Doping in Elite Sport: The Politics of Drugs in the Olympic Movement. Human Kinetics. p. 83. ISBN 0-7360-0329-0.
- ^ "Anatoly Pisarenko". Lift Up.