Altymyrat Orazdurdyýew
Altimurat Orazdurdiev (Turkmen: Altymyrat Orazdurdyýew; June 16, 1969 – 1997) was a Turkmen weightlifter and an Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR.
Early life
He was born in the Mary region of Sakarçäge etrap (district), one of five brothers. He graduated from the National Institute of Sports and Tourism of Turkmenistan.
Career
Orazdurdiev was coached by Abrahamian Brono. He performed for the "Dynamo" (Ashgabat).
He was the first Turkman weightlifter to ever win the European Championship three times and has been recognized an equal number of times as the strongest man in the world.[citation needed] He performed in several 66–72 kg weight categories.
In 1992, he was a member of the United Team at the Olympic Games in Barcelona. However, head coach Vasily Alexeev did not allow him to compete.
A year after the Olympics he underwent a kidney transplant, but the transplant was rejected.
He won a gold medal at the 1994 Asian Games in the 76 kg class.
Orazdurdiev died in 1997 at the age of twenty-seven.
External links
- Altimurat Orazdurdiev at Lift Up
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- 1905 (I): Otto Walther (GER)
- 1905 (III): André Dufour (FRA)
- 1906: Albert Deroubaix (FRA)
- 1907: Andreas Lutz (GER)
- 1908: Johann Eibel (AUT)
- 1909: Johann Eibel (AUT)
- 1910 (I): Hans Abraham (GER)
- 1910 (II): Leopold Hennermüller (AUT)
- 1911 (I): Leopold Hennermüller (AUT)
- 1911 (II): Rudolf Oswald (AUT)
- 1911 (III): Hans Abraham (GER)
- 1911 (IV): Leopold Hennermüller (AUT)
- 1913: Leopold Hennermüller (AUT)
- 1920: Karl Stritesky (AUT)
- 1922: Saul Hallap (EST)
- 1923: Karl Freiberger (AUT)
- 1937: John Terpak (USA)
- 1938: Adolf Wagner (GER)
- 1946: Khadr El-Touni (EGY)
- 1947: Stanley Stanczyk (USA)
- 1949: Khadr El-Touni (EGY)
- 1950: Khadr El-Touni (EGY)
- 1951: Pete George (USA)
- 1953: Tommy Kono (USA)
- 1954: Pete George (USA)
- 1955: Pete George (USA)
- 1957: Tommy Kono (USA)
- 1958: Tommy Kono (USA)
- 1959: Tommy Kono (USA)
- 1961: Aleksandr Kurynov (URS)
- 1962: Aleksandr Kurynov (URS)
- 1963: Aleksandr Kurynov (URS)
- 1964: Hans Zdražila (TCH)
- 1965: Viktor Kurentsov (URS)
- 1966: Viktor Kurentsov (URS)
- 1968: Viktor Kurentsov (URS)
- 1969: Viktor Kurentsov (URS)
- 1970: Viktor Kurentsov (URS)
- 1971: Vladimir Kanygin (URS)
- 1972: Yordan Bikov (BUL)
- 1973: Nedelcho Kolev (BUL)
- 1974: Nedelcho Kolev (BUL)
- 1975: Peter Wenzel (GDR)
- 1976: Yordan Mitkov (BUL)
- 1977: Yurik Vardanyan (URS)
- 1978: Roberto Urrutia (CUB)
- 1979: Roberto Urrutia (CUB)
- 1980: Asen Zlatev (BUL)
- 1981: Yanko Rusev (BUL)
- 1982: Yanko Rusev (BUL)
- 1983: Aleksandar Varbanov (BUL)
- 1984: Karl-Heinz Radschinsky (FRG)
- 1985: Aleksandar Varbanov (BUL)
- 1986: Aleksandar Varbanov (BUL)
- 1987: Borislav Gidikov (BUL)
- 1989: Altymyrat Orazdurdyýew (URS)
- 1990: Tudor Casapu (URS)
- 1991: Pablo Lara (CUB)
- 1993: Altymyrat Orazdurdyýew (TKM)
- 1994: Pablo Lara (CUB)
- 1995: Pablo Lara (CUB)
- 1997: Yoto Yotov (BUL)
- 1998: Zlatan Vanev (BUL)
- 1999: Badr Salem Nayef (QAT)
- 2001: Nader Sufyan Abbas (QAT)
- 2002: Georgi Markov (BUL)
- 2003: Mohammad Ali Falahatinejad (IRI)
- 2005: Li Hongli (CHN)
- 2006: Taner Sağır (TUR)
- 2007: Ivan Stoitsov (BUL)
- 2009: Lü Xiaojun (CHN)
- 2010: Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan (ARM)
- 2011: Lü Xiaojun (CHN)
- 2013: Lü Xiaojun (CHN)
- 2014: Zhong Guoshun (CHN)
- 2015: Nijat Rahimov (KAZ)
- 2017: Mohamed Ehab (EGY)
- 2018: Lü Xiaojun (CHN)
- 2019: Lü Xiaojun (CHN)
- 2021: Karlos Nasar (BUL)
- 2022: Li Dayin (CHN)
- 2023: Oscar Reyes (ITA)
- 80 kg (1905–1913)
- 75 kg (1920–1991)
- 76 kg (1993–1997)
- 77 kg (1998–2017)
- 81 kg (2018–)
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