Nikolai Grigoryevich Kostylev

Nikolai Kostylew ( Russian: Николай Григорьевич Костылев ; * 1931 ; † 1993 ) was a Soviet weightlifter .

Career

He grew up in Smolensk and attended the sports school for youth there. There he had his first contacts with weightlifting, which he continued when he transferred to the teachers' college in Malachowka near Moscow at the age of 16 . He made rapid progress and good performances were not long in coming. In 1952 he already reached 350 kg in the Olympic three-way fight. In 1953 he achieved a world record in two-armed snatch with 118.5 kg, which was to be followed by several more. Although he reached 365 kg in 1953 and 380 kg in 1954, he had to wait until 1955 before he came to a first use at a world championship. That was because there were a lot of good weightlifters in the Soviet Union, especially in the lightweight class. After 1956 he stagnated in his performance between 370 and 380 kg and came to no more international assignments.

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Le = lightweight)

• 1953, 1st place , World Youth Festival, Le, with 350 kg, ahead of Verne Barberis , Australia , 337.5 kg and Robert Belza, Czechoslovakia ;
• 1955, 1st place , WM + EM in Munich , Le, with 382.5 kg, ahead of Gouda, Egypt , 365 kg and Tun Maung , Burma , 355 kg;
• 1956, 1st place , EM in Helsinki , Le, 377.5 kg, ahead of Josef Tauchner , Austria , 357.5 kg, Luciano de Genova, Italy , 347.5 kg and Roland Lortz , Germany , 345 kg;
• 1958, 3rd place , Grand Prix of Moscow, Le, with 370 kg, behind Viktor Buschujew 382.5 kg, and Huan Tschan-Ju, 382.5 kg;
• 1960, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow , Le, with 385 kg, behind Anatoli Schgun, USSR , 390 kg and Mustafa Jagly-Ogly , USSR, 385 kg.

National championships

• 1952, 1st place , USSR, Le, with 350 kg, in front of Lopatin, 342.5 kg;
• 1957, 4th place , USSR, Le, with 372.5 kg, behind Khabudtinow, 380 kg, Buschujew, 380 kg and Goldstein, 377.5 kg;
• 1958, 2nd place , USSR, Le, with 380 kg, behind Viktor Buschujew , 387.5 kg;
• 1960, 6th place , USSR, Le, with 382.5 kg, winner: Buschujew, 397.5 kg ahead of Lopatin, 395 kg.

World records

in two-armed tearing:

• 118.5 kg, 1953 in Warsaw , Le,
• 120 kg, 1953 in Warsaw, Le,
• 120.5 kg, 1953 in Sverdlovsk , Le,
• 122.5 kg, 1954 in Leningrad , Le,
• 123 kg, 1955 in Moscow, Le,
• 125 kg, 1956 in Helsinki, Le,
• 126 kg, 1959 in Yaroslavl , Le.