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Video of IPF Worlds 220 Class Men

Submitted by Staff on November 5, 2009 - 4:36pm.

The IPF has uploaded video of today's action from the 220 class men at the Powerlifting World Championships in New Dehli, India. Russian Konstantin Lebedko won a tightly fought battle for the victory over Ukraine's Ivan Freydun. Lebedko totaled 2,265 pounds (1,027.5kg) to Freydun's 2,259 pounds (1,025kg). American Floyd Givens finished ninth.

Squats:

Bench presses:

(Part one)

(Part two)

Deadlifts:

Medal ceremony:

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Submitted by Lone Star Curt (not verified) on November 5, 2009 - 6:53pm. » quote

An amazing deadlift to win it. Incredible strength.

Submitted by A. Govorin (not verified) on November 6, 2009 - 1:25am. » quote

Why level of USA lifters is so low?

Submitted by hacketjj1 on November 6, 2009 - 4:20am. » quote

A. Govorin wrote:

Why level of USA lifters is so low?

Our Level is so low because most US lifters don't lift in IPF.

Jeff Hackett.

Submitted by David Edwards (not verified) on November 6, 2009 - 5:10am. » quote

hacketjj1 wrote:

A. Govorin wrote:

Why level of USA lifters is so low?

Our Level is so low because most US lifters don't lift in IPF.

Jeff Hackett.

Is this actually true.

I would have thought that USAPL/IPF was by far the biggest Federation in the US.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 6, 2009 - 5:17am. » quote

A. Govorin wrote:

Why level of USA lifters is so low?

Two reasons:
1. Most US lifters do not lift in IPF.
2. Many of the best US lifters did not want to travel to India.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 6, 2009 - 5:19am. » quote

i think you will find the best US lifters went to the world games and so missed the worlds

Submitted by alideutscher on November 6, 2009 - 5:35am. » quote

over 1000 kilos in the -100 kilo class wow, that must be great training methods and genes and all this life long drug free !!

congratulations

Submitted by A.Govorin (not verified) on November 6, 2009 - 8:16am. » quote

Please stop crying. It's a shame.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 6, 2009 - 10:05am. » quote

Who is crying?

Submitted by A.Govorin (not verified) on November 6, 2009 - 10:07am. » quote

over 1000 kilos in the -100 kilo class wow, that must be great training methods and genes and all this life long drug free !!

congratulations

Always the same stupid things.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 6, 2009 - 11:31am. » quote

A.Govorin wrote:

over 1000 kilos in the -100 kilo class wow, that must be great training methods and genes and all this life long drug free !!

congratulations

Always the same stupid things.

Is this A. Govorin from 2007 Worlds 75kg class? If so, how come you are not competiting at Worlds this year? Big fan! :)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 6, 2009 - 3:02pm. » quote

hacketjj1 wrote:

A. Govorin wrote:

Why level of USA lifters is so low?

Our Level is so low because most US lifters don't lift in IPF.

Jeff Hackett.

Interestingly enough, when IPF lifters move to the WPC/WPO they dominate. Reply?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 6, 2009 - 4:04pm. » quote

I will say that the Russians are the ace outfit when it comes to powerlifting right now, but the US would have performed much better had some of the top lifters competed. Honestly, unless suspended, the best lifters from every other country lift in the IPF. In the US, the talent is spread out amongst many federations. To say how these lifters would fare in the IPF is dubious as well...the standards are so different than the multi-ply feds...equipment, weigh-ins, judging,etc. Plus, I do think the USAPL is committed to being drug-free, so it would be tough to run a cycle and try to get away with it, even from within the national fed. So the Russians would probably still dominate (not to say they are juicing).

Submitted by Curtis (not verified) on November 6, 2009 - 5:51pm. » quote

Wow, how old is Floyd exactly? Impressive lifts all around.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 7, 2009 - 10:06am. » quote

hacketjj1 wrote:

A. Govorin wrote:

Why level of USA lifters is so low?

Our Level is so low because most US lifters don't lift in IPF.

Jeff Hackett.

Why so?