Famous strongmen of the past
People always have their strengths and people have always been proud of their heroes. With the advent of showbiz and before the formation of modern sport, with its standardized indicators, the strong man found a place in the circus, or a trade booth. Some of them were canonized by no less than modern artists movie.
Unfortunately, information about the achievements of athletes of the past are often too stingy. I in any case do not claim complete coverage, many famous athletes were not included in this list.
Since we are talking about the past, let me remind you:
1 pound Russian = 409 g; lb shopping = 453г; 1 pood=16.38 kg
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The main profession was a butcher. The photo picks up 500 pounds with one finger, threaded into the ring – one of his most famous numbers.
Standing on two chairs, raised middle finger (threaded ring) 16 pounds. Success with the audience enjoyed his “lively bar”: straight arms Steyer held in front of a rod 70 lbs (31.7 kg) on the fretboard where did gymnastic exercises of his son weighing 90 pounds(40.8 kg).
Famous for Steyer and his eccentricity. Cane it weighed 40 pounds(18kg), snuff, which he kept in the palm of treating friends weighed 100 pounds (45kg). Sometimes he wore on the head of the cylinder, weighing 75 pounds (34кг) and he came to the cafe, left it on the table, then asked the waiter to bring him the cylinder.
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Known in 18th-century England athlete, set a record, raising three barrels weighing 1836 pounds
Medium height, proportionally built, he easily tore from the earth by the hands of the stones weighing up to 24 pounds(393кг), iron pokers were tied around the neck like a scarf, and in 1741, on the square, crowded with spectators, raised by means of straps, worn on the shoulders, three barrels of water weighing 50 pounds(819кг).
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Sergey Eliseev, the main profession of the cook, was considered a champion of AO weight lifting. Record the weight of 60.8 kg in the horizontally outstretched arm. In Tomsk, in his homeland, still competitions to his name.
He took in his right hand a weight of 61 kg, lifted her up, then slowly lowered to direct the arm to the side and a few seconds held the hand with the weight in a horizontal position. Three times he pulled out one hand for two disjoint two-pound weights.
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The first wrestling champion. A student of Georg Lurikh, friend and rival Eliseeva. World record holder in weightlifting, one hand squeezed barbell weighing 122 kg. were Taken in each hand dumbbells at 41 kg and bred straight arms horizontally to the sides. Squeezed on the wrestling bridge bar weighing 145 kg.
Already 82– year-old Gakkenshmidt jumped over stretched on the backs of two chairs, a rope, pushing off the floor with both feet at the same time.
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Independently developed a unique (and largely lost) a system of exercises, which made quite sickly teenager one of the strongest people in the world. Raised the horse, but the victory was won not so much by force as by skill and ability.
The huge success of the Estonian strongman world champion Georg Lurikh brought not only records, but also the harmony and beauty of the physique. He has repeatedly posed for such sculptors as Rodin and Adamson. The sculpture of the last “champion” was awarded the first prize at the world exposition in America in 1904. In the arena of Lurikh showed the following numbers: wrestling standing on the bridge, he kept to himself the four men. and in his hands was holding the rod 7 pounds. On one hand was holding five people. holding the hands of two camels pulling in opposite directions. He raised the right hand rod 105 kg and hold it at the top, take the left off the floor the weight is 34 kg and lifted up.
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Famous fighter (“champion of Champions”) was different as well and huge force. Not exercising on purpose, he raised the standard weight of 120 kg.
It should be noted that the wrestling Mat, he left at the age of 50 years.
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One of Pervis Russian aviators, a professional wrestler, friend and rival Poddubny.
Zaikin was worn on the shoulders of 25–pound anchor, was lifted on the shoulders of a long rod, on which sat ten people, and started to rotate (“living carousel”)
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Being mainly a fighter, Ivan Shemyakin, not often performed with the power numbers. Only in 1905, at first gastrolyah in Paris. He raised one hand to 6 people. In addition, it bent iron beams.
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Canadian from Quebec, of French origin, Louis Cyr became a professional boosters weights.
With the growth of 176 cm, had a weight of 133 kg, bust 147 cm, biceps at 55 cm.
He’s raised knee with one hand 26 pounds(425,8 kg), lifted on the shoulders of the platform 14 with adult men. Kept ourselves at arm’s length within 5 seconds, the load 143 lbs(64,8 kg). Put under a barrel of cement sheet of paper and offered to get him out. No athlete could not perform this task himself, Louis Cyr every night raised the barrel.
Because he was a professional, his record is carefully recorded:
Lifting weights and hold on the back: 1967 kg
Lifting weight with one hand and hold the right angle: 59,5 kg
Raising weights vertically by one hand: 73,7 kg, 36 times in a row.
The separation of the weight from the ground:
Two hands: 860,5 kg
One hand: 448 kg
One finger: 251 kg[source
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With one hand raised five standard weights of 20 kg each. Lifted the barbell weighing 165 kg with a very thick neck (5 cm). Only 20 years after Apollo the rod axis (from trolley) was able to raise Olympic champion in 1924 Charles Regula, which, incidentally, owns the world record in the snatch with the right hand 116 kg. In the famous trick “the release from the cells” Apollo hands parted the thick rods in and out of cells.
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Eugene Sandow (Real name Frederick Miller) is considered the father of osnovatelem bodybuilding. They developed the system of exercises is not so much contributed to the development of muscular power, as such, as led to achieving a beautiful figure.
Weighing not more than 80 kg, he set a world record, while pressing one hand to 101.5 kg. did a back flip, holding in each hand at 1.5 pounds. Within four minutes could do push-UPS on the hands 200 times.
In 1911 the king of England George V gave Sandow the title of Professor of physical development. A Golden statue depicting the Sandow awarded to the winner of “Mr. Olympia”. In 1930 was one of his many books called “Bodybuilding”, giving the name of the sport in all English-speaking countries.
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The Russian athlete is amazing. At a bodyweight of 80 kg (and not too “bulging” muscles) he wore on his shoulders a horse weighing up to 400 kg. Raised teeth iron girders weighing 135 kg, at the ends which sat two assistants, a total of 265 kg. of a Joke that he could lift up a taxi and hold the car like a wheelbarrow, broke horseshoes and tearing chains. On a platform raised 20 people. In the famous attraction “the Man with the ball” he caught in the hands of the assistant who, like the artillery shell flew from the mouth of a circus cannon and described over the arena 12–meter trajectory.
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In 1913 at the weightlifting competition in Petrograd, in the former Mikhailovsky Manege, showed a sensational power trick, carried in a circle on one hand and six soldiers of the guards regiment, for which he was awarded the “gold belt”. This record number so far failed to repeat any athlete in the world. Chekhov himself showed it constantly in his speeches. No less amazing and the other rooms of the athlete. Making “bridge”, Yakub Chekhov raised a ten. His chest was mounted a dais on which was placed a brass band of 30 musicians. On the shoulders of the lifter 40 people bent beam metal beam. Through his chest, passed 3 trucks with the public.
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The author of a book on the development of physical strength.
In 1906 was raised to the shoulder with two hands, a weight of 159 kg, shifted her right hand and pushed it upward. Wore on his hands raised rod 6 pounds, the ends of which hung on one person.
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The Bohemian Anton Riha was famous for its ability to hold a lot of weight. In 1891 he raised himself on 52 pounds. (851 kg)
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In 1893, in new York held a competition for the title “world champion in weightlifting”. The competition brought together the strongest athletes of that time. From Canada came Louis Cyr, from Europe – Eugene Sandow. American James Walter Kennedy twice raised the iron core weighing 36 pounds to 24.5 pounds (nearly 601кг), tearing him from the platform by 4 inches. None of the athletes could not repeat this issue. Set the record proved fatal for a 33–year-old athlete: he screamed and then was forced to act only with the demonstration of the muscles. Dead athlete in 34 years.
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Greece had found a lump weighing 143,5 kg, which, according to made her inscriptions raised over the head with one hand Atlet Bibon. Another athlete, Imast allegedly ripped from the ground a huge block, weighing 480 kg.
“Petersburg Listok” dated July 3, 1893, wrote about a certain Ivan Chekunov that in the presence of crowds of people freely raised an anvil weighing 35 pounds (560 kg).
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