TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) -- Hossein Rezazadeh, Iran's +105kg weightlifter, said Tuesday he will break records in the world event in Vancouver, Canada.

Rezazadeh added he has trained regularly and is hopeful to improve the previous records. The Iranian weightlifter burst spectacularly onto the international scene at the 2000 Sydney Olympics with a superhuman lift to defeat two legends of the sport on the way to gold and the title of the ‘world's strongest man.’

Rezazadeh took Olympic gold with a world record total of 472.5kg (212.5 kg in the snatch and 260kg in the clean and jerk).

His 260kg lift was one of the heaviest in weightlifting history and proved too much for 1992 gold medalist Weller and 1996 winner Chemerkin who settled for silver and bronze respectively.

Rezazadeh won three gold medals in +105kg category of the 72nd World Weightlifting Championships in Warsaw, Poland, as he totally lifted 472.5kg. He set a new world record in clean and jerk by 0.5kg as he lifted 263 kilograms.

On January 9, President Mohammad Khatami granted a ‘badge of courage’ to the Ardebili weightlifter.

During a ceremony held in the presence of several ministers and other state officials at Hafezieh Cultural Complex, Khatami presented medals to 16 athletes of the land, including world-class weightlifter Hossein Rezazadeh, freestyle wrestler Alireza Dabir, and taekwondo champion Hadi Saei as a sign of acknowledging their efforts in sportsmanship.

Rezazadeh was voted as ‘Champion of Champions’ of Iran in the year 2002.

Association of Sports Writers, Reporters, and Photographers released the names of the best sportsmen of the country in 2002.

To name the top athletes, the association collected the votes of 350 sports writers of 32 sports periodicals.