Bo Johansson (bodybuilder)
Bo Valdemar Johansson ( born February 7, 1945 in Gothenburg ) is a former Swedish weightlifter.
Career
Johansson grew up in Gothenburg and began as a boy with bodybuilding. At age 16, he also began to practice weight lifting, but ran it not very intense, because he only wanted to finish his apprenticeship as a carpenter. Later, however, he intensified the weightlifting workout but because he showed a lot of talent in this sport, but was also still to bodybuilding in the City Gym in Gothenburg. Ingve Frölander, the 1962 Secretary General of the Swedish Weightlifting Federation, made sure that the training conditions and social conditions for the Swedish weightlifters have been greatly improved. This also benefited Johansson, the 1966 Swedish Junior Champion in the light heavyweight division, with 370 kg in the Olympic triathlon. In the same year he was second best in the light heavyweight division with 372.5 kg at the Swedish Championships seniors. He was in 1968 Swedish champion at middleweight heavyweight 490 kg. He had improved so that within a year to nearly 120 kg in the Olympic triathlon. Also international successes came at this power level. He was runner-up in 1969 and 1968 and 1971, respectively European Vice Champion, with him in 1971 almost the sensation would be able to beat the then applicable as unbeatable Soviet athlete David Rigert. Both reached 537.5 kg in the OD, Johansson was but a few grams heavier than Rigert and had to be content with second place. Johansson was injured the whole year 1972, so that he could not compete in the 1972 Olympics in Munich. In 1973, he tried a new beginning, but failed both in Europe and in the World Championships and then stepped back from weightlifting.
Johansson also participated with great success in competitions in bodybuilding, especially in Scandinavia.
International success / Mehrkampf
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Ls = Light Heavyweight, to 82.5 kg of body weight, Ms = Medium weight up to 90 kg body weight, S = Heavy weight up to 110 kg body weight, competitions until 1972 in Powerlifting, Consisting from Press, Snatch and Jerk, beginning in 1973 in a duel, consisting of tearing and piercing )
Medals single disciplines
( since 1969 to be awarded)
- World Championship gold medal: 1969, Snatch, 150 kg,
- World Cup bronze: 1969, pressing, 165 kg in 1971, Snatch, 155 kg
- European gold medal: 1969, Snatch, 150 kg,
- EM- Silver Medals: 1970, pressing, 177.5 kg, 1970, tearing, 157.5 kg, 1971 Press 182.5 kg, 1971, Snatch, 155 kg in 1971, slotting, 200 kg,
- EM- bronze, 1969, Press, 165 kg in 1973, Snatch, 155 kg
World Records
(all scored in the middle heavyweight)
In the press:
In pushing:
- 206.5 kg, 1971 in Sundbyberg