IronMind Big Lift Series: Zlaten Vanev 210-kg Clean & Jerk: 5 Attempts

Shop the IronMind e-store: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Grit! Earlier that year (1998), 77-kg weightlifter Zlaten Vanev (Bulgaria) had dislocated his arm attempting a world record clean and jerk. Some months later, IronMind’s Randall Strossen was on site in the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation’s training hall and captured Vanev cleaning 210 kg five times, only to miss the jerk each time—all under the watchful eye of fabled coach Ivan Abadjiev. You can experience the five attempts here—the 170-lb. Vanev attacking 463 lb.! And if you want to be reminded of what persistence looks like when you’re training, you’ll find the story and Strossen’s photo of Vanev again missing the jerk after cleaning the same 210 kg on IronMind’s Grit poster, now available in the IronMind e-store (). By the way, about a week later, Van