Naim Süleymanoglu und Halil Mutlu sind erfolgreiche Sportler, die im Ringen Weltrekorde gebrochen haben und olympische Titel erhielten.

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November 4, 2001, Antalya, Turkey

Competing in the Turkish national weightlifting championships in November 2001, Halil Mutulu – the "Little Dynamo" – broke the world record in the 56 kg snatch category with a lift of 138.5 kg.

April 24, 2001, Trencín, Slovakia

Despite a tendon injury, "Little Dynamo" Halil Mutlu took three gold medals in snatch and clean and jerk at the 2001 Senior European Weightlifting Championships in Trencín, Slovakia. He also smashed his own clean and jerk world record in the 56-kg category, lifting a total of 168 kg – 35.5 kg more than the silver medallist, Adrian Jigau.
Mutlu was born on July 14, 1973, in Postnik, Bulgaria. Now competing for Turkey, he has modelled his career on three-times Olympic champion, and fellow Turk, Naim Suleymanoglu. He first competed in the Olympic Games in 1992 at the 54 kg weight class, finishing fifth. Since then, he has been World Junior Champion twice, European Champion five times, World champion three times and has won a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics. If fact, Mutlu is undefeated since the Olympics in 1996, despite the reorganization of the weight categories in 1998. He has broken the world record more than 20 times in all the weight classes he has competed in. He is currently a student at Sakarya University in Turkey and lives in Ankara, Turkey.

September 16, 2000, Sydney, Australia

Halil Mutlu, born on July 14, 1973, in Postnik, Bulgaria, broke the men’s 56-kg combined weightlifting record with a total of 305 kg in Sydney, Australia, on September 16, 2000.


Hossein Rezazadeh




Iran's Hossein Rezazadeh lifted 212.5 kg (468.5 lb) in the men's +105-kg snatch at the 2000 Sydney Olympics on September 26, 2000.