Trofim Fyodorovich Lomakin

Trofim Fyodorowitsch Lomakin ( Russian Трофим Фёдорович Ломакин ; born August 2, 1924 in Barancha in the Altai region ; † June 13, 1973 ) was a Soviet weightlifter .

Career

At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , a Soviet weightlifter surprised the public when he won the gold medal in the light heavyweight division ahead of the favored Arkady Vorobyov and Stanley Stanczyk . His name was Trofim Lomakin and he was a member of the "Red Army". The 28-year-old athlete, trained by Mechanik and Schatow, who had been trained by Mechanik and Schatow, was not entirely unknown, as he had won the 1951 World Youth Festival in Berlin and the 1952 Soviet championships. Until 1960 he was at the forefront of many important international championships. In 1960 he surprised with a change to the middle heavyweight division, after he had been overtaken in the light heavyweight division in 1959 by the new Soviet lifting star Rudolf Plukfelder .

Trofim Lomakin, last officer in the Soviet Army, died in 1973.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, EM = European Championships, Ls = light heavyweight, Ms = middle heavyweight)

• 1951, 1st place , World Youth Festival in Berlin , Ms, with 395 kg;
• 1952, gold medal , OS in Helsinki , Ls, with 417.5 kg, ahead of Stanley Stanczyk , USA , 415 kg and Arkady Vorobyov , USSR , 407.5 kg;
• 1953, 2nd place , World Championships in Stockholm , Ls, with 427.5 kg, behind Vorobjow, 430 kg and in front of Stanczyk, 415 kg;
• 1954, 2nd place , World Championship in Vienna , Ls, with 427.5 kg, behind Thomas Kono , USA, 435 kg and in front of Jean Debuf , France , 405 kg;
• 1956, 1st place , EM in Helsinki, Ls, with 420 kg, ahead of Václav Pšenička Czechoslovakia and Günter Siebert , Germany , 37.5 kg;
• 1957, 1st place , World Championships in Tehran , Ls, with 450 kg, ahead of James George , USA, 422.5 kg and Mansouri, Iran , 412.5 kg;
• 1958, 1st place , military Spartakiade of the states of the Warsaw Pact in Leipzig , Ls, with 405 kg, in front of Dieter Göhring , GDR ;
• 1958, 1st place , WM + EM in Stockholm, Ls, with 440 kg, in front of James George, 435 kg and Ireneusz Palinski , Poland, 432.5 kg;
• 1960, silver medal , OS in Rome, Ms, with 457.5 kg, behind Vorobjow, 472.5 kg and in front of Louis Martin (weightlifter) , Great Britain , 445 kg.

USSR championships

• 1951, 2nd place, Ls, with 395 kg, behind Vorobjow, 395 kg;
• 1952, 1st place, Ls, with 415 kg, in front of Vorobjow, 415 kg;
• 1953, 1st place, Ls, with 415 kg, in front of Merkulow, 395 kg;
• 1955, 1st place, Ls, with 432.5 kg, in front of Stepanow, 410 kg;
• 1956, 1st place, Ls, with 437.5 kg;
• 1957, 1st place, Ls, with 440 kg, in front of Rudolf Plukfelder , 432.5 kg;
• 1960, 1st place, Ms, with 457.5 kg, in front of Vorobyov, 457.5 kg.

World records

when pressing with both arms:

• 157 kg, 1960 in Rome , Ms.

in two-armed thrusting:

• 170.5 kg, 1953 in Moscow , Ls.

in the Olympic three-way battle:

• 435 kg, 1956 in Moscow, Ls,
• 437.5 kg, 1956 in Moscow,
• 450 kg, 1957 in Tehran ; Ls.

Web links

• Trofim Lomakin in Top Olympic Lifters of the 20th Century