ICEF Assistant Professor Alexey Parakhonyak becomes Russian weightlifting champion

With 172 lifts in 5 minutes, he beat his own record at weightlifting of 55 kg weights that he set in June 2014 (153 times in 5 minutes).

Russian weightlifting is a young sport, and the first competitions were held in Russia in 2000.

It involves one form of weightlifting, chest-lifting bar weights on a horizontal bench. The set weight should be lifted as many times as possible.