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TOROKHTIY

Welcome to the OFFICIAL page of the Olympic weightlifter Oleksiy Torokhtiy!

I am Ukrainian weightlifter, Olympic champion in weightlifting (London, 2012), winner of European and world championships, participant of the Olympic Games (Beijing (2008) and London (2012), Merited Master of Sport, Vice-President of Weightlifting Federation of Ukraine. Post-graduate student of the Kharkiv Aviation Institute. Deputy head of the NOC athletes’ commission.

Olympic weightlifting, also called Olympic-style weightlifting, or weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which participants attempt a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.

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How often do you train?

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Your choice?

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one story from life.
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I learned both split and power jerk from day one. Split was the main lift; power was an accessory to reset timing and coordination.
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But split always felt like a dance. I kept chasing the bar and couldn’t lock it in stable overhead.
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Year 4–5, after a few rough meets where the jerk killed my total, I asked my coach to switch to power. He said no, my positions weren’t ready.
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So I fixed them: narrow‑grip Sots press and daily overhead mobility. When the positions clicked, we made the switch.
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At the switch my best split jerk was 190 kg. Six months later I hit 205 kg from the rack with the power jerk.
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From then on I could jerk ~10 kg more than I could clean. In 2015-2018 I chased 260-hit 255; six misses at 260 are still in my head.
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My take: start with split, then test power. Going power > split almost never sticks. Most world records are still split, but I expect more power jerkers ...