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Birth name | Yury Ivanovich Zakharevich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Mokshino, Kalinin Oblast | January 18, 1963||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yury Ivanovich Zakharevich (Russian: Юрий Иванович Захаревич, born January 18, 1963) is a former Olympic weightlifter for the Soviet Union. He trained at Dynamo in Dimitrovgrad. Yury competed in the middle-heavyweight (90 kg), sub-heavyweight (100 kg) and heavyweight (110 kg) weight classes during his career.[1]
Yury Zakharevich has been described as one of the most technically gifted weightlifters of all time. In his analysis of the snatch technique of Yury Zakharevich, the biomechanist Robert Roman said that "Zakharevich raised the barbell in the snatch to "the minimal possible height of the lift lifters of his height can raise a barbell and still successfully fix it overhead."[2]
Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
1988 | Seoul, South Korea | 110 kg | 195.0 | 205.0 WR | 210.0 WR | 1 | 245.0 | 1 | 455.0 WR | |||
World Championships | ||||||||||||
1986 | Sofia, Bulgaria | 110 kg | 195.0 | 201.0 WR | 235.0 | 245.0 | 248.0 WR | 447.5 WR | ||||
1987[3] | Ostrava, Czechoslovakia | 110 kg | 195.0 | 203.0 WR | -- | 235.0 | 242.5 | 445 |