Leif Jenssen

Leif Jensen ( born March 19, 1948 in Fredrikstad, Østfold, Norway ) is a former Norwegian weightlifter and Olympic champion.

Career

Leif Jenssen operation as a teenager different sports and was interested in the first time for the weight lifting when he saw television images of the World Championships 1963 in Stockholm. He joined the Sports Club Lenja Atletklubb Fredrikstad and started training. Really regularly but he coached until 1965, when he moved to coach Eivind Rekustad to Atletklubb Larvik. On 26 October 1966, he scored in a match after one year of training in Larvik 287.5 kg in the Olympic triathlon. Half a year later he was already reached 317.5 kg. By 1968 he was able to increase its benefits to the extent that he was nominated for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. There, he won his first major international use with 405 kg middleweight the 14th Place. It went from year to year forward and 1972 came his big day when he was Olympic champion in Munich. After 1972, Leif Jensen suffered somewhat from the fact that the beidarmige Press, his best discipline, was deleted from the competition program. There was now only one more duel, consisting of beidarmigem cracking and crashing. Nevertheless, he was once again in 1974 Vice World Champion in the light heavyweight division. In 1975 he ended his international career, but trained with highly reduced workload on. In 1985, he was, for example, still so good that he was 280 kg in the once Norwegian champion in the light heavyweight division.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, European Championships EM =, Mi = middleweight, light heavyweight Ls = )

World Record

In beidarmigen tearing: