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Country
  
Role
  
Weightlifter

Sport
  
Height
  
1.98 m

Event(s)
  
+105 kg

Weight
  
170 kg

Name
  
Velichko Cholakov


Velichko Cholakov 2004 European Weightlifting Archives olympic

Born
  
January 12, 1982 (
1982-01-12
)

Olympic medals
  
Weightlifting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's Super Heavyweight +105 kg

Velichko cholakov 207 5kg snatch 2004 olympics


Velichko Cholakov (Bulgarian: Величко Чолаков, 12 January 1982  – 20 August 2017) was an ethnically Bulgarian Azerbaijani weightlifter.

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Career

He competed in the over 105 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, his first Olympics, winning an Olympic bronze medal. After missing two clean and jerk attempts at 245 kg, he managed to lift a total of 447.5 kg, placing him behind Latvia's Viktors Ščerbatihs and Iran's Hossein Reza Zadeh.

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Velichko won the European weightlifting title in Kiev, Ukraine in 2004, and finished second at the World championship in Vancouver in 2003. In 2002, he won gold medals at both the European and World Youth Weightlifting championships.

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He was once measured during competition as 2.05 meters tall, thus making lifting more difficult both in regard to distance of elevation and less than ideal limb proportions.

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Cholakov tested positive for a steroid in 2008 during an out-of-competition test, along with ten other weightlifters, and therefore Bulgaria's weightlifting federation withdrew its team from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Apart from Cholakov the athletes who tested positive were Ivailo Filev, Alan Tsagaev, Mehmed Fikretov, Ivan Stoitsov, Ivan Markov, Georgi Markov, Demir Demirev, Milka Maneva, Donka Mincheva and Gergana Kirilova. He was supposed to compete for Azerbaijan during the 2012 Summer Olympics, but withdrew before the 105+ kg competition due to health issues.

Career bests

  • Snatch: 207.5 kg in 2004 Summer Olympics.
  • Clean and jerk: 245.0 kg 2004 European Weightlifting Championships.
  • Total: 447.5 kg (205.0+242.5) 2003 World Weightlifting Championships.
  • Death

    Velichko Cholakov died in Smolyan on 20 August 2017, aged 35, after a recent history of heart problems.

    References

    Velichko Cholakov Wikipedia


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