Rait Sagor jõutõmbe maailmarekordi katsel

Rait Sagor set an unofficial world record

Last weekend, Helsinki hosted the 24th Three Cities Competition in classic powerlifting, where the teams of Tallinn, Helsinki and Stockholm went head to head.

Rait Sagor and a record-breaking deadlift

The most remarkable result of the competition came from Sagor, who set an unofficial world record in the -105 kg weight class with a deadlift of 352.5 kilograms. That is 10 kg more than the current world record. Sagor could make the world record official as early as the World Championships in Finland in early June. In the squat, Sagor finished with 270 kg, and in the bench press with 165 kg.

The best result on our team, and of the whole competition in Wilks points, came from super heavyweight Siim Rast, who bench pressed 230 kg, a new Estonian record, and whose 350 kg is the new record in the deadlift. A squat of 320 kg brought the total to 900 kg. The Tallinn team also included Aimar Kuusnõmm (662.5 kg), Jevgeni Jablokov (655 kg) and Andres Külaviir (632.5 kg).

In recent years it has become a tradition for Tallinn to win by a wide margin. In the men’s standings, Tallinn’s team won by a wide margin again this year, but because Tallinn had no women’s team this time, the overall victory did not come home.