Kettlebell of Dikul. How much does it weigh? Kettlebell Competitions

In the program of competitions in the traditional disciplines of power extreme it is necessary to raise and press the world-famous giri of Dikul. According to various sources, the weight of this weight varies from 80 to 85 kg. It is considered nominal, since its creator is the famous Russian healer, academician Valentin Ivanovich Dikul.

At the competition, Dikul's weight is weighed 82 kg. Color it in gold to emphasize the value for athletes and athletes. Few powerlifters can lift it with one hand, not to mention presses several times.

A bit of history

Born in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR boy Valentin Dikul. It happened on April 3, 1948. He did not know his father, and he lost his mother at the age of seven. The grandmother raised the boy, who later gave it to the orphanage for upbringing. From a young age Valentine loved the circus, helped with the preparation of circus performances, cleaned the arena after the performances. From the age of ten, watching acrobats and gymnasts, I loved power exercises. Soon with pleasure I joined the work and began to raise weights and balls, to practice acrobatics and gymnastics.

Fate smiled at him, and, seeing the teenager's extraordinary desire for the circus, he was taken to the troupe of circus performers as an air gymnast. But soon there was a terrible tragedy. In 1962 Valentin Dikul during a speech in Kaunas becomes a victim of an accident. During the performance at a high altitude, a steel crossbar breaks in the Sports Palace. From the 13-meter height, the fall was so rapid that even if he knew how to group to fall cases, the athlete simply did not have time to do it.

A debilitating fight against the disease

When falling, Valentin gets a serious injury to the skull, spine and ten fractures of the remaining bones. A week in the intensive care unit and three months of fighting for life in the hospital did not yield positive results. All the doctors asked the young patient to spend the remaining years of life in a wheelchair. They just did not take into account the extraordinary desire to get up on the feet and the will power of the guy.

Even in the hospital, grueling training began. Studying literature on anatomy and biomechanics, he devised exercises for the development of leg muscles, using first ropes, and then block constructions with weights collected by friends.

For six long years Valentin Dikul's persistence did not bring any visible results. But then he felt life at his feet. This made him triple his efforts and after 7 months of intensive training his legs began to act. Since then, he not only got up and went, but thanks to labor and raising weights became the strongest athlete.

Since Dikul got to his feet, his healer's career began. He helped not only to stand up firmly on his feet, but also to thousands of sick, crippled people gave hope for recovery. He created a set of exercises to restore the mobility of muscles and joints.

Sports career

The love for the circus was alive in Dikul's soul all the time when he had to stop. After rehabilitation, rising to his feet, he returns to the arena, but already as a power juggler. Rooms with tossing balls weighing 45 kg, lifting bars, people and cars were watched by millions of people around the world. But the invented weight of Dikul weighing 80 kg is still considered unique.

His ability to toss with one hand the weight entered the Guinness Book of Records. Since then, many powerlifting competitions have in their program the lifting and press of such an unusual dumbbell. It is considered aerobatics to make jerks with a gold weight. Lifting it is part of the traditional disciplines of power extreme.

How much does Dikul's weight weigh?

In Moscow, every season on the birthday of Valentin Ivanovich Dikul, namely April 3, is the tournament "The strongest man." In the program of the competition - lifting of the famous nominal weights, which the folk healer used all 48 years of his work in the circus. Weight of the weight is 80 kg.

The Federation of Strongest Athletes of Russia included this projectile in strongman competitions. The task should be performed as follows: lift the weight upwards with just one hand. Lifting is performed over the head with the technique of push, press or shvung. The movement is carried out only for a long cycle (from the floor with one hand to the chest, then upwards).

The winner of the competition is the one who raised it more times. But it is not always possible for strongmen to raise such a burden at least once.

Russian bogatyrs

Kettlebell sport in Russia has been popular for a long time. Lovers loved to lift weights such celebrities as writer Leo Tolstoy and wrestler Ivan Poddubny. But before the 19th century this was not considered a sport. It was fun and testing the endurance of men at fairs and circus performances. Such famous fighters of the past, as Ivan Zaikin, Ivan Poddubny, Georg Gakkenshmidt, constantly performed gymnastics using weights. Of these exercises, all weight lifting was born .

Vladislav Krajewski raised 32-kilogram weights 10 times, although he was already 60 years old. He is considered the creator of the St. Petersburg amateur athletics circle. The first book on training work with weights belongs also to the Russian Ivan Lebedev. His book "Guide, how to develop your strength, exercising with heavy weights" was written in 1916. And his student Alexander Bukharov wrote a textbook for athletes under the name "Kettlebell lifting" in 1939.

Athletes-weightlifters lift weight in 8, 16, 32 kg. And only now in the competitions of the strongmen began to apply exercises with weights Dikul weighing 80 kg.