Alexander Varbanov

Alexander Varbanov
Personal information
Surname:	Alexander Varbanov
Nationality:	Bulgaria
Date of birth:	May 9, 1964
Place of birth:	Novi Pazar
Size:	163 cm
Medal table

Alexander Warbanow ( Bulgarian Александър Върбанов ; born May 9, 1964 in Novi Pazar , Bulgaria ) is a former Bulgarian weightlifter .

Career

Varbanow won the world and European championships in Moscow in 1983 in the middleweight division up to 75 kg with 370.0 kg in a duel before Vladimir Kuznetsov, who also achieved 370.0 kg, but was heavier.

In 1984 Warbanov could not take part in the Olympic Games due to the Olympic boycott of the Eastern States. In the middleweight division, Karl-Heinz Radschinsky won gold with 340.0 kg in a duel. Warbanow had previously taken second place at the European Championships and could certainly have been counted among the medal favorites.

A year later, Warbanow was able to win the European Championship in Katowice and won gold in a duel weighing 360.0 kg ahead of Joachim Kunz . He also won the world championship title in Södertälje with 370.0 kg.

In 1986 he repeated this and again won the European and World Championships. At the World Championships in Sofia he was able to increase to 377.5 kg and thus set Zdrawko Stoichkov's world record in a duel. In pushing he set his own world record with 215.0 kg.

In Seoul 1987 he was able to increase this to 215.5 kg, as well as the world record in a duel to 380.0 kg. He finished the European Championship in 1987 as second behind his compatriot Borislaw Gidikow , and the World Championships again as the winner with 370.0 kg.

At the Olympic Games in 1988, Warbanow was already 10 kg behind the first place after the tear. With 157.5 kg he could only counter Gidikov's 167.5 kg little. Warbanow put 200.0 kg into the rating, thus reaching 357.5 kg and thus remained well below his performance of the previous years, considering that in the same year he had increased the world record in the duel to 382.5 kg. Ultimately, this performance was enough for third place behind Gidikow with 375.0 kg and Ingo Steinhöfel with 360.0 kg.

1989 was Warbanov's last year as an active lifter. At the World Championships he took fourth place in a duel with 350.0 kg and third place in the push. At the European Championships, which were held together with the World Cup as one competition, this was enough for second place.

World records

(Mi = middle weight, class up to 75 kg)

• 1983 in Lille , Wed, 367.5 kg in a duel;
• 1983 in Moscow , Wed, 210.0 kg pushing;
• 1984 in Varna , lightweight (class up to 67.5 kg), 200.0 kg in pushing;
• 1985 in Södertälje , Wed, 211.5 kg pushing;
• 1985 in Monte Carlo , Wed, 212.0 kg pushing;
• 1986 in Karl-Marx-Stadt , Wed, 212.5 kg pushing;
• 1986 in Sofia , Wed, 215.0 kg pushing;
• 1987 in Seoul , Wed, 380.0 kg in a duel;
• 1987 in Seoul, Wed, 215.5 kg pushing;
• 1988 in Plovdiv , Wed, 382.5 kg in a duel.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Warbanow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on November 12, 2009
2. ↑ Lift Up. Alexander Varbanov , accessed November 21, 2009

Web links

• Portrait on chidlovski.net
• Alexander Warbanow at the Institute for Applied Training Science