Lasha Talakhadze: 217-kg World Record Snatch
by Randall J. Strossen, IronMind Enterprises, Inc. © 2017
![Lasha Talakhadze 217 kg Lasha Talakhadze (Georgia), the Rio Olympic champion, blistered this 217-kg snatch at the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships, for a new world record. IronMind® | ©Randall J. Strossen photo](/export/sites/ironmind/.galleries/images-2017/Lasha-Talakhadze-217-kg.jpg_116526181.jpg)
Split, Croatia—Super heavyweight Lasha Talakhadze (Georgia) put an exclamation point on the end the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships as he broke the men’s world record in the snatch with a lift of 217 kg.
Not only did Talakhadze blister the lift, but it was part of a six-for-six performance that saw him total 467 kg, a massive 21 kg ahead of silver medalist Gor Minasyan (Armenia).
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