The morning session of Day 4 of the Open categories was the 105kg class which promised some entertaining lifting. The reigning 93kg world champion, Anatolii Novopismennyi of Ukraine, led the nominations just ahead of former junior world champions Levon Tavakalov of ROC and Sweden’s own Emil Norling.
Novopismennyi opened with a tough looking squat world record of 343.5kg which looked right on the limit of strength. But he surprised us on his second and pushed the world record up to 355kg and then, amazingly, all the way up to 360kg, putting nearly 20kg on the squat world record.
Emil Norling looked strong and confident under the bar on his opener, taking the squat silver with 337.5kg on his second, but 345kg wasn’t quite there. France’s Corentin Clement squatted 325kg on the second time of asking for the squat bronze.
Tavakalov pulled himself back into second place at sub-total with a big bench of 222.5kg which was exceeded only by Novopismennyi who pressed an easy 225kg for his second but missed a world record attempt of 231kg.
Anatolii’s comfortable 330kg opening deadlift secured the total world record and, realistically, he could not be caught in the world title race. However, that did not prevent him from pushing it further, up to an eventual 937.5kg.
The battle for the rest of the podium places was very tight with only 7.5kg covering the next three after opening deadlifts. Tavakalov only got his opener though and dropped behind as the deadlifts progressed. Clement pulled a junior world record of 365kg but it wasn’t enough to stay ahead of Sweden’s strongest fireman (probably) who pulled 367.5kg to secure the second step of the podium. Phenomenal deadlifting!
Watch it back here https://youtu.be/avh5ipq0tOU
9th October 2021
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