Matthias Steiner 258kg clean and jerk at the 2008 Olympic Games

Matthias Steiner's 258kg clean and jerk in the men's +105kg division. This lift was for the gold medal and one of the great moments from the Beijing Olympics.

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[Tanner Cook]

A 1000kg leg press isn't nearly as impressive as a 258kg CJ

[d0r1705]

What does the rest have to do with you being Canadian?

[ViolentObesity]

You have to be efficient at transferring power from your squat to your clean and jerk. Since bodybuilders are pussies he probably has an efficiency of 50% which means he clean and jerks probably the same as I do. Then there is the matter of jerking the weight overhead. Unless you are a weightlifter you don't have the right hip speed and strength to be able to dip and whip the weight overhead while locking out and splitting while at maximum weight.

[rusty goldfinch]

i miss when this weight was avg at the heavy weight

[tombennettpiano]

ummm Chigashev has a video of him on Youtube casually benching 500 like its nothing. If he actually trained for it he'd probably do 600 plus. Wrong again. Steiner is built for the bench with his barrel chest. You're again probably very wrong.

Bertil Fox did 550 in the bench for reps much much lighter than Coleman...still not on the level with Olympians for strength.

Give it time and you'll understand.

[tombennettpiano]

see above for complete destruction of your misled comparison.

[tombennettpiano]

no, no, no, no, no.

Shane Hamman 1003 squat in powerlifting..10th in olympics. Did 500CJ and 440snatch

Mark Henry 950lb RAW squat/900 deadlift...10th in olympics. did a little less than Hamman.

Completely wrong argument.

These guys are stronger in completely different way.

[tombennettpiano]

Ronnie does not RAW squat to full depth more than steiner. that's complete bullshit. Ronnie is strong as hell but his 800 squats were not even to powerlifting depth much less the depth you need for Olympic lifting. IF he was that strong maybe he'd have done like Mark Henry and competed in the Olympics and GOT 10th!!!!! 10th!!!! the USA's strongest man (definitely stronger than Ronnie) and he got 10th!!!!! Same with Shane Hamman. Complete foolishness.

[tombennettpiano]

if you can CJ 258 you can do 100 reps with 1000lbs in the leg press.

[xeli1994x]

troll

[John Fasa]

Solid argument, were you born retarded or did you decide being smart was too much pressure?

[xeli1994x]

dumb or just a troll?