Jaan Talts

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Jaan Talts Weightlifting
Personal information
Surname: Jaan Talts
Nationality: Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union / EstoniaEstoniaEstonia 
Society: Jõud Tallinn
Date of birth: 19th May 1944 (age 76)
Place of birth: Laiksaare, Estonian SSREstonia Soviet Socialist Republic 1940Estonian SSR 
Size: 174 cm
Medal table
Medals

Jaan Talts , in the Soviet Union Яан Аугустович Тальтс , (born May 19, 1944 in Laiksaare , rural community Saarde , Pärnu district ) is a former Estonian weightlifter and functionary who, due to the occupation of his country by the Soviet Union, competes internationally for this went.

Career

Jaan Talts was a very versatile athlete as a student. He did athletics , especially short-distance runs, swam and played volleyball . He started lifting weights at the age of 15 in agricultural school . In 1963 he joined the army. There he made good progress under coach Jakow Krinitsky. In 1964 he was Soviet junior champion, but could not compete in 1965 due to knee and back problems. In 1966 he finished 2nd in the middle heavyweight division behind Eduard Browko when he first participated in the Soviet championships . As a great talent and hope for the future, the 22-year-old athlete was sent to the World and European Championships in Berlin in 1966 . There, however, he had to pay hard to learn because he was eliminated with three unsuccessful attempts at pressing without placing. However, Jaan was unstoppable, finished 1966 with a three-way performance of 490 kg and scored at the Soviet championships in 1967 as the first weightlifter in the world in the middle heavyweight over 500 kg. Nevertheless, he suffered another setback in 1968, because he was surprisingly defeated by the Finn Kaarlo Kangasniemi , starting as a high favorite . In 1972 he won the Olympic gold medal in Munich in a convincing manner. It was remarkable how after the catastrophe in the Soviet team, when Vladimir Kanygin , Walery Schary , Boris Pavlov and David Rigert were eliminated from the middle, light and middle heavyweight classes because of three failed attempts in one of the disciplines, head coach Alexei Medvedev took over the initiative practically disempowered and together with Vasili Alexejew won two gold medals for the Soviet Union. In 1973 he ended his career as an active weightlifter.

Today Jaan Talts lives as a businessman in Tallinn . He has already held several functions in the Estonian Weightlifting Association and is also a sponsor for it.

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Ms = medium heavyweight, then up to 90 kg body weight, S = heavyweight, then up to 110 kg body weight)

Medals individual disciplines

(awarded since 1969)

  • World Cup gold medals: 1969, push, S - 1970, push, S -1970, push, S - 1972, push, S,
  • World Cup silver medals: 1969, push, S - 1969, tear, S - 1970, tear, S,
  • World Cup bronze medals: 1972, tearing, S - 1972, pushing, p.
  • EM gold medals: 1969, push, S - 1969, tear, S - 1969, push, S - 1970, push, S 1970, push, S - 1972, push, S - 1972, tear, S - 1972, push, S,
  • EM bronze medal: 1970, tear, p.

In addition, the 1972 Olympic victory in the three-way battle is also considered a world title.

USSR championships

  • 1966, 2nd place, Ms, with 475 kg, behind Eduard Browko , 475 kg and in front of Stepanschenko, 465 kg;
  • 1967, 1st place, Ms, with 502.5 kg, ahead of Anatoly Kalinitschenko , 482.5 kg and Kidjajew, 475 kg;
  • 1968, 1st place, Ms, with 500 kg, ahead of Kidjajew, 492.5 kg and Kalinichenko, 487.5 kg;
  • 1969, 4th place, S, with 517.5 kg, behind Wladimir Golowanow , 522.5 kg, Staroshenko, 520 kg and Juri Jablonowski , 520 kg;
  • 1972, 1st place, S, with 587.5 kg, in front of Pawel Pervuschin , 577.5 kg and Golowanow, 565 kg.

World records

  • 1966 triathlon 490 kg Ms East Berlin
  • 1967 tearing 151 kg Ms Moscow
  • 1967 Pushing 193 kg Ms Sofia
  • 1967 poke 193.5 kg Ms Moscow
  • 1967 Pounding 194 kg Ms Mexico City
  • 1967 triathlon 497.5 kg Sofia
  • 1967 Triathlon 502.5 kg Ms Moscow
  • 1967 Triathlon 505 kg Ms. Dubna
  • 1968 tearing 152.5 kg Ms. Kiev
  • 1968 tearing 153 kg Ms Dubna
  • 1968 tearing 153.5 kg Ms Luhansk
  • 1968 Kick 195.5 kg Ms Dubna
  • 1968 Pushing 196 kg Ms Dubna
  • 1968 Pounding Ms 197.5 kg Mexico City
  • 1968 Triathlon 510 kg Ms. Dubna
  • 1968 triathlon 512.5 kg Leningrad
  • 1969 Press 190 kg S Zinnowitz
  • 1969 Sroßen 212.5 kg S Warsaw
  • 1970 press 195.5 kg S Tallinn
  • 1970 press 196 kg S Varna
  • 1970 press 197 kg S mountains
  • 1970 Pressing 200 kg S Columbus
  • 1970 Pressing 201 kg S Tartu
  • 1970 Bump 215 kg S Szombathely
  • 1970 Triathlon 562.5 kg Szombathely
  • 1970 Triathlon 565 kg S Columbus
  • 1971 Pressing 201.5 kg S Tallinn
  • 1971 Pressing 203 kg S Paris
  • 1971 Pressing 206 kg S Tallinn
  • 1971 Pushing 216 kg S Tallinn
  • 1971 Jerking 217.5 kg S Tallinn
  • 1971 Triathlon 580 kg S Tallinn
  • 1971 Triathlon 582.5 kg Tallinn
  • 1971 Triathlon 585 kg S Tallinn
  • 1971 Triathlon 587.5 kg S Tallinn
  • 1972 Pressing 207.5 kg S Tallinn
  • 1972 Pressing 211 kg S Constanța
  • 1972 Impact 218 kg S Imatra
  • 1972 Pushing 220 kg S Tallinn
  • 1972 Bump 222.5 kg S Constanța
  • 1972 Triathlon 590 kg S Moscow

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bearers of decorations - Jaan Talts . www.president.ee. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Talts, Jaan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Тальтс, Яан Аугустович (Cyrillic spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet weightlifter and Estonian functionary
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Laiksaare , Saarde , Pärnu County