Blagoy Blagoev

Blagoy Blagoev
Personal information
Surname:	Blagoy Blagoev
Nationality:	Bulgaria
Date of birth:	4th December 1956
Size:	168 cm
Medal table

Blagoj Blagoew ( Bulgarian Благой Благоев ; * December 4, 1956 ) is a former Bulgarian weightlifter . He is the winner of the silver medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and multiple world champion .

Athletic career

Blagoj Blagoew was one of the Bulgarian weightlifters who, due to the intensive and systematic search for talent by the Bulgarian Weightlifting Association, began lifting weights at the age of 12. After extensive basic training, these young weightlifters were brought relatively quickly to the top of the world through intensive and hard training, which was designed by the then Bulgarian national coach Ivan Abadschiew , and they had mostly reached this level before they were 20 years old. It was the same with Blagoy Blagoev, who joined the army as a sports soldier to secure his livelihood.

This started in 1975 for the first time at an international championship, the Junior World Championship in Marseille in the light heavyweight category up to 82.5 kg, where it finished second behind his compatriot Belichowski with 327.5 kg in a duel. In 1976 he started very successfully with the seniors. At the European Championships in Berlin (East) in the light heavyweight division with 365 kg in a duel, he won the silver medal behind Valeryj Scharyj from the Soviet Union, who scored 367.5 kg. At the Olympic Games of the same year in Montreal he reached 362.5 kg in a duel and thus won the Olympic silver medal, again behind Scharyj, who came to 365 kg. But Blagoev's doping test was positive, after which he was subsequently disqualified . He was also banned from competition for one year.

After this suspension was over, Blagoj Blagoew was able to start again in 1977 at the World and European Championships in Stuttgart . He managed 155 kg there in the snatch, with which he finished 2nd at both the World and European Championships. In pushing, however, he did not succeed in a valid attempt, so that he remained unplaced in the duel ranking.

In 1978 he did not start at any international championship. In 1979 and 1980 he was very successful in the light heavyweight division. At the 1979 European Championships in Varna , he achieved his first major victory. With 380 kg in a duel, he became European champion. However, he lifted only 362.5 kg in a duel at the world championship of the same year in Saloniki and was thus beaten by Jurik Wardanjan from the Soviet Union , who reached 370 kg.

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow he reached the light heavyweight 372.5 kg, which was enough to silver medal behind Jurik Wardanyan, who achieved 400.0 kg in a duel.

From 1981 Blagoj Blagoew started a weight class higher in the middle-heavy weight up to 90 kg. In 1981 he was in Lille with 405.0 kg in a duel world and European champion in front of the Soviet lifter Yuri Sakharevich , who lifted 397.5 kg. In 1982 he was again world and European champion in Ljubljana , where he increased his duel performance to 415.0 kg and thus outclassed Jurik Wardanjan, who lifted 395.0 kg. In 1983 he was then in a duel in Moscow for the third time world and European champion in a row and scored 420.0 kg in a duel. Viktor Solodow from the Soviet Union came in second with 410.0 kg.

Solodow then defeated at the European Championships in 1984 in Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain Blagoew with 420 kg to 417.5 kg in a duel, where he could only secure his victory with a world record in pushing with 232.5 kg. This was the last start of Blagoj Blagoew on the international lifting platform. He could not take part in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of the boycott of these games by his country.

In the course of his career Blagoj Blagoew achieved several world records, the majority of them in snatch and the rest in duels. In pushing, he was unable to set a world record in his entire career.

Others

Blagoew as supervisor for the Australian team at the 2000 Paralympics

About the further life of Blagoj Blagoew is only known that after the end of the communist era in Bulgaria he went to Australia with other Bulgarian weightlifters (e.g. Stefan Botew ) .

Personal best

• Snatch: 195.5 kg in the class up to 90 kg 1983 in Varna
• Bump: 227.5 kg in the class up to 90 kg in 1983 in Moscow
• Duel: 420.0 kg (195.5 / 225.0 kg) in the class up to 90 kg in 1983 in Varna

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Ls = light heavyweight, Ms = medium heavyweight, back then up to 82.5 kg or 90 kg body weight)

• 1975, 2nd place , Junior World Championship in Marseille , Ls, with 327.5 kg in a duel (147.5 kg tearing / 180 kg pushing), behind Belichowski, Bulgaria , 330 kg a. before Shushin, USSR , 312.5 kg;
• 1976, 2nd place , EM in Berlin (East), Ls, with 365 kg (165 kg / 100 kg) behind Valeryj Scharyj , USSR, 367.5 kg (165 kg / 202.5 kg) and in front of Trendafil Stojtschew , Bulgaria , 365 kg (167.5 kg / 197.5 kg);
• 1976, silver medal , OS in Montreal , Ls, with 362.5 kg (162.5 kg / 200 kg), behind Valeri Schari, 365 kg (162.5 kg / 202.5 kg) u. before Trendafil Stoychev , 360 kg (162.5 kg / 197.5 kg); this silver medal was subsequently withdrawn from him because of doping;
• 1977, unpl. , WM + EM in Stuttgart , Ls, after 155 kg in snatch, three failed attempts in pushing with 177.5 kg; Winner: Gennady Bessonov , USSR, 352.5 kg;
• 1978, 1st place , Championship of the States of the Warsaw Pact (ZKDA Championship) in Frankfurt (Oder) , Ls, with 360 kg (165 kg / 195 kg) in front of Lyssenko, USSR, 345 kg;
• 1979, 1st place , EM in Varna , Ls, with 380 kg (172.5 kg / 207.5 kg) before R. Rabczewski, Poland , 352.5 kg (155 kg / 197.5 kg) and Dusan Poliacik , Czechoslovakia , 340 kg (147.5 kg / 192.5 kg);
• 1979, 1st place , Spartakiade in Sofia , Ls, with 385 kg (175 kg / 210 kg) before W. Drandarow, Bulgaria, 350 kg (155 kg / 195 kg);
• 1979, 2nd place , WM in Saloniki , Ls, with 362.5 kg (170 kg / 192.5 kg), behind Jurik Wardanjan , USSR, 370 kg (170 kg / 200 kg) and before Dusan Poliacik, 350 kg (155 kg / 195 kg);
• 1980, silver medal , OS in Moscow , Ls, with 372.5 kg (175 kg / 197.5 kg), behind Jurik Wardanjan, 400 kg (177.5 kg / 222.5 kg) u. before Dusan Poliacik, 367.5 kg (160 kg / 207.5 kg);
• 1981, 1st place , WM + EM in Lille , Ms, with 405 kg (185 kg / 220 kg) in front of Yuri Sacharewitsch , USSR, 397.5 kg (180 kg / 217.5 kg) and Lyubomir Uscherow, Bulgaria, 380 kg (167.5 kg / 217.5 kg);
• 1982, 1st place , WM + EM in Ljubljana , Ms, with 415 kg (192.5 kg / 222.5 kg) in front of Jurik Wardanjan, 395 kg (185 kg / 210 kg) a. Frank Mantek , GDR , 377.5 kg (170 kg / 207.5 kg);
• 1983, 1st place , World Cup in Varna , Ms, with 420 kg (192.5 kg / 227.5 kg) ahead of Andrzej Piotrowski , Poland, 375 kg (167.5 kg / 207.5 kg);
• 1983, 1st place , WM + EM in Moscow , Ms, with 417.5 kg (190 kg / 227.5 kg) in front of Viktor Solodow , USSR, 410 kg (185 kg / 225 kg) and Andrzej Piotrowski, 382.5 kg (170 kg / 212.5 kg);
• 1984, 2nd place , EM in Vitoria-Gasteiz / Spain , Ms, with 417.5 kg (192.5 kg / 225 kg) behind Wiktor Solodow, 420 kg (187.5 kg / 232.5 kg) and before Andrzej Piotrowski, 382.5 kg (172.5 kg / 210 kg).

literature

• Athletics magazine from 1975 to 1984

Web links

• Portrait on chidlovski.net
• Profile of Blagoj Blagoew at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Videos by Blagoev: 195.0 kg in snatch and 222.5 kg in push at the 1982 World Cup in Halmstadt; on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Blagoj Blagoew in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games - Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 615 .