Athletes
Zach Krych
Olympic Weightlifting
Name: Zachary Joseph Rusnacko Krych
Weight Class: 85
Height: 5'7''
Birth date: 4/16/1983
Hometown: Robbinsdale, MN
USA Weightlifting Club: Team Minnesota
Coaches: Paul Fleschler
College Attending or Graduate of: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
When did you begin weightlifting? 1999, junior in high school
How did you get involved? My friend Jason Wetzel was doing it and so I started to also. I was able to take a weightlifting class in high school where we did the Olympic lifts. At the time my school had a lifting team of 100 kids.
Goals: Make the Olympics, medal at world championships
Best Competition Snatch: 150kg
Best Competition Clean & Jerk: 190kg
Best Competition Total: 335kg
Favorite Competition Lift: clean and jerk
Favorite Training Lift: front squat
Best Squat: 255kg
Best Front Squat: 225kg
Most Influential person(s) in your sporting career: Gary Blazek, Pete Kelly
International Competition Best Event: Pan ms 2006
Hobbies/Interests outside of weightlifting: following Christ (not really a hobby), Guitar, writing music, Biology/Chemistry, and interpretive dance interpreting.
Favorite Book(s): Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, Darwin's Black Box by Michele Behe, Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell, The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Enders Game by Orson Scot Card…
Favorite TV Show: I don't watch much TV, it eats you soul. Unless it's the Discovery channel, they're pretty cool.
Favorite Music Genre: ahhhh, its all so good. Just nothing cheesy.
Favorite Food: ahhhh, its all so good. Especially if its cheesy.
Most People Don't know that… I am married to the "Babeness of Beauty" Sara Katrina Krych, who thinks I'm top notch (I don't know why).