Anatoly Pisarenko
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| Birth name | Anatoly Grigor'evich Pisarenko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 January 1958 Kyiv, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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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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.
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
[edit]| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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| 1981[a] |  Lille, France |
+110 kg | 187.5 |  |
237.5 | |
425 |
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| 1982[a] |  Ljubljana, SFR Yugoslavia |
+110 kg | 197.5 |  |
247.5 | |
445 |
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| 1983[a] | Moscow, Soviet Union |
+110 kg | 205 | |
245 | |
450 |
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| European Championships | ||||||||||||
| 1984 |  Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain |
+110 kg | 200 | |
250 | |
450 |
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- a This tournament was counted as European Weightlifting Championships of the corresponding year.
World records by Anatoly Pisarenko
[edit]He 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.
Categories:
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Soviet male weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters for the Soviet Union
- Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople
- Ukrainian male weightlifters
- Sportspeople from Kyiv
- Doping cases in weightlifting
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Fourth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
- Ukrainian sportsperson-politicians
- Friendship Games medalists in weightlifting
- 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen