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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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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Medal record
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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
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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| 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
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.