Georgi Vladimirovich Popov

Georgi Wladimirowitsch Popow ( Russian Георгий Владимирович Попов , scientific transliteration Georgij Popov ; born December 12, 1912 in Baku , † 1974 ) was a Soviet weightlifter .

Career

After Grigory Nowak , Georgi Popov was the most famous and probably also the best Soviet weightlifter in the 1930s. At that time he was already known in the West. Grigori had started weightlifting in 1930 and won his first Soviet bantamweight championship in 1933, which was to be followed by ten more in featherweight and lightweight. At the international championships, in which he was only able to take part after the Second World War due to the separation of the sport at that time into a civil sport and workers' sport, he won two medals at the age of 34 and 35 respectively. In 1937 and 1938 he would undoubtedly have become world champion after the achievements he had shown in those years at the Soviet championships. In order to be able to compare how strong the performances of Popov, which can be seen from the results at the Soviet championships, were at that time, let us consider the performances of the winners at the German championships in 1934 (the European championship was held in the OD) and the world champions in 1937 and Listed in 1938.

• 1934, DM in Nuremberg, FK, Fe, 1. Max Walter , Saarbrücken , with 432.5 kg (70-80-80-92.5-110).
• 1937, World Championships in Paris, OD, Fe, 1. Georg Liebsch , Germany , with 297.5 kg (95-90-112.5).
• 1938, WM in Vienna, OD, Fe, 1st Liebsch, with 305 kg (97.5-92.5-115).

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, FK = pentathlon, consisting of one-armed tearing and pushing and two-armed pushing, tearing and pushing, OD = Olympic three-way, consisting of two-armed pushing, tearing and pushing, Ba = bantamweight, Fe = featherweight, Le = Lightweight)

• 1946, 3rd place , World Championships in Paris , OD, Le, with 335 kg, behind Stanley Stanczyk , USA , 367.5 kg and Wladimir Swetilko , USSR , 347.5 kg;
• 1947, 2nd place , EM in Helsinki , OD, Le, with 330 kg, behind Israel Mechanik , USSR and in front of Sigvard Kinnunen , Sweden , 315 kg

USSR championships

• 1932, 3rd place, FK, Ba, with 365.5 kg;
• 1933, 1st place, FK, Ba, with 410 kg (65-74.6-74.5-85-110), in front, Alexander Donskoy , 360 kg;
• 1934, 1st place, FK, Fe, with 438 kg (68.5-83.5-79-93.5-113.5);
• 1935, 1st place, FK, Fe, with 455.5 kg (75-80-85-95-120);
• 1936, 1st place, OD, with 295 kg;
• 1937, 1st place, OD, Fe, with 315.5 kg (86-103.5-126);
• 1938, 1st place, OD, Fe, with 317.5 kg (90-100-127.5), in front of Moissei Kasjanik , 310 kg;
• 1939, 1st place, OD, Fe, with 325 kg (92.5-107.5-125), in front of Kasjanik, 310 kg and Donskoy, 302.5 kg;
• 1940, 1st place, OD, Fe, with 330 kg (90-105-135), in front of Kasjanik, 320 kg and Donskoi, 315 kg;
• 1943, 2nd place, OD, Fe, with 295 kg, behind Kasjanik, 305 kg;
• 1945, 1st place, OD, Fe, with 315 kg, ahead of Yevgeny Lopatin , 282.5 kg;
• 1946, 1st place, OD, Le, with 345 kg (95-110-140), before Wladimir Swetilko , 342.5 kg;
• 1947, 1st place, OD, Le, with 342.5 kg (105-110-127.5), in front of Israel Mechanics, 340 kg.

World records

(unofficial as the USSR was not a member of the International Weightlifting Federation at that time, they were all scored in featherweight)

in two-armed tearing:

• 98 kg, 1934 in Moscow ,
• 99.5 kg, 1936 in Moscow,
• 101 kg, 1936 in Kiev ,
• 102 kg, 1937 in Kiev,
• 103.5 kg, 1937 in Rostov ,
• 105 kg, 1937 in Kiev,
• 106 kg, 1937 in Tbilisi ,
• 107 kg, 1938 in Kiev,
• 108 kg, 1939 in Kharkov .

in two-armed thrusting:

• 127.5 kg, 1936 in Kiev,
• 128.5 kg, 1936 in Moscow,
• 130 kg, 1936 in Stalino ,
• 131 kg, 1936 in Kiev,
• 132 kg, 1937 in Kiev,
• 134 kg, 1937 in Rostov,
• 135 kg, 1937 in Kiev,
• 136 kg, 1937 in Tbilisi.

in the Olympic three-way battle:

• 305 kg, 1936 in Stalino,
• 312.5 kg, 1937 in Rostov,
• 317.5 kg, 1937 in Kiev,
• 322.5 kg, 1937 in Kharkov,
• 330 kg, 1938 in Kiev,
• 332.5 kg, in 1939 in Kiev.

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Portrait with photo by Georgi Popov