He was one of the world’s premier superheavyweight weightlifters and when the 1998 European Weightlifting Championships came to Riesa, Germany Ronny Weller gave his fans a lesson in the sport as he uncorked a 205.5 kg (world record) snatch, along with a 260-kg clean and jerk (world record total).


He’d already gone five-for-five, broken a world record and pocketed all three gold medals in the +105 kg category at the 1998 European Weightlifting Championships, but when he called for this 260-kg in the clean and jerk—and made the lift—Ronny Weller brought down the house as he also broke the world record in the total.  IronMind® | Randall J. Strossen photo.


See these lifts, as the latest installment of IronMind’s Big LIft series has been added to the IronMind channel on YouTube:

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Six-for-six, two world records, three gold medals—a spectacular performance by Germany’s Ronny Weller.
                                                                     
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