Blagoy Blagoev
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Blagoy Blagoev was an Olympic
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
weightlifter for Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
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Weightlifting achievements
- Silver medalist in Olympic Games (1980);
- Senior world champion (1981-1983);
- Silver medalist in Senior World Championships (1976 & 1984);
- Senior European champion (1979, 1981, 1982 and 1983);
- Silver medalist in Senior European Championships (1976 & 1984);
- All-time senior world record holder in snatchSnatch (weightlifting)The snatch is one of the two olympic weightlifting events .The essence of the event is to lift a barbell from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement. The barbell is pulled as high as the lifter can manage at which point the barbell is flipped overhead...
(195.5 kg, competing at 90 kg); - Senior world record holder in snatch (1979-1992);
- Set eighteen world records during career.
Career bests
- SnatchSnatch (weightlifting)The snatch is one of the two olympic weightlifting events .The essence of the event is to lift a barbell from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement. The barbell is pulled as high as the lifter can manage at which point the barbell is flipped overhead...
: 195.5 kg 1983 in VarnaVarnaVarna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...
in the class to 90 kg. - Clean and jerkClean and jerkThe clean and jerk is one of the two Olympic weightlifting events .The clean portion of the lift refers to the lifter explosively pulling the weight from the floor to a racked position across deltoids and clavicles...
: 227.5 kg 1983 in Moscow in the class to 90 kg. - Total: 420.0 kg 1983 in Varna in the class to 90 kg.