Top 6 Greatest Weightlifters Of All Time

Who are the greatest Olympic Weightlifters of all time? Olympic Lifting Coach Dane Miller has coached some of Team USA's best lifters and breaks down his Top 6 Greatest Olympic Weightlifters Of All Time.

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[aycandamal]

An additional fact: Leonidas has great respect for Naim and he came to Turkey to attend Naim Süleymanoglu's funeral. Huge respect for Leonidas as well.

[antonyosifov]

Naim is an absolute GOAT. Its hard to believe what he achieved in the sport. 1988 Seul Olympiad performance still remains the scariest of all time. What a great legend, what a man…..

[mubeen]

Naim was one in a billion. There will not be anyone like him in this sport again. RIP

[zmako]

After Naim broke all the records, the categories in which Naim competed were cancelled. Because they know that it is no longer possible to break a new record in that weight.

[SAB-exde]

Naim is "pound for pound" the strongest human to have ever lived.

[yavrusahin]

Just to show how insane Naim's 1988 performance was, he won the gold in 60kg category with a total of 342.5kg (152.5kg+190kg). In the next weight division (67.5kg), Joachim Kunz won the gold with a total of 340kg (150kg+190kg). So, Naim could have competed in the 67.5kg body weight division and still won the gold. As far as I know, Naim is the only weightlifter to achieve this in an Olympic competition.

[nastyk]

Naim would've also had another Olympic gold in 84 if not for the boycott. Truly the GOAT!

[evgeniosevangelosgorgorini]

Since you know Dimas in person, please don't tell him that he's an Albanian. He is a Greek born and raised in Albania and later on moved in Greece; just like many Turks born and raised in Bulgaria. The situation in the Balkans was a bit more complicated back in these days.

[БайМаринМилионера]

I am Bulgarian, the reason there were so many good weightlifters coming from Bulgaria in the past was that we had a very good weightlifschool headed by the coach Ivan Abadzhiev. He trained both Naim Suleymanoglu (Наим Сюлейманоглу) and Halil Mutlu (Халил Мутлу), as well as other Bulgarian weightlifters - Norair Nurikyan, Yordan Bikov, Andon Nikolov, Yanko Rusev, Asen Zlatev who won gold at the Olympics. Also at the time the socialist one party state invested lots of money in sport and encouraged participation in sport at all levels.

[howarddimburgers]

Vasili Alexeev
80 World Records
81 Soviet Records
8x World Champion
8x European Champion
2x Olympic Champion
First man to break the 500 lb barrier
Alexeev competed frequently so everybody had a shot at him, yet he still dominated. His 80 world records are true official first time best lifts, not repeats of past lifts. There weren't any weight class changes during his reign. All of his records were in the 110+ kilo class.

[stkutu]

Great video, thanks you! Greetings from Turkey

[Alekosssvr]

My fav is Pyrros but Naim was truly amazing also!

[vasilishimself]

"No matter how many drugs you feed a mule, it won't become a horse" -- Pyrros Dimas

[Rattdoggq]

I remember watching Pocket Hercules lift on TV live. the way he would Breathe just before he would lift. unreal power

[ersoydemirkan]

Süleymanoğlu is the first and only weightlifter to have snatched 2.5 times his body weight
Beat that!!
Also He is the only weightlifter to date to clean and jerk 10 kilos more than triple his bodyweight

[vengeancejustice]

Pyrros is Albanian ?? By two Greek parents ?

[aabbaa]

Nice video and thank you. But not one mention to Vasily Alekseyev?? The man who set up the world record something like 80 times? I think he should be in that list.

[BADBOY-higq]

Thank you bro ..Nice Video 👍Naim is the best ..There will never again be an exceptional athlete like him💪

[rogiecadiente]

Aloha from Hawaii, Sir: Thank you for sharing the top 6 male world wide Olympic Weightlifters of all the time. I am glad you based on performance on the world and olympic level, and base on "pound for pound" in their respected classes. It nice you have included Tommy Kono from Hawaii on your list, and the only American to excel in his time. I had the pleasure to have Tomny Kono train in those hay days, and the endless stories and inspirations he shared with us. Aloha and Take Care!