Those were the 2015 European Weightlifting Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Date: 11-18th April 2015
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Doping News
Update 10.06.2015: Adrian Zbirnea MDA, 105kg Silver tested positive for nandrolone (via).
Update 18.05.2015: Oleg Proshak (+105kg Winner) tests positive for dehydrochloromethyltestosterone. (via)
Update 08.05.2015: First positive test comes from *drum roll* Georgia.
Davit Gogia (105kg) returned a sample that on first testing contained stanozolol (via). This would mean Simon Martirosyan would get a Snatch bronze medal.
Recordings
Highlights
Update 06.09.2015: Chingiz Mogushkov & Irakli Turmanidze battle it out for the Snatch Gold medal.
Update 26.05.2015: All lifts by Lydia Valentin.
Update 06.05.2015: 4 Minutes in the training hall with Viktor Getts (77kg)
Update 01.05.2015: Lydia Valentin doing Hang Snatches in the training hall.
Daniyar Ismayilov (69kg, Turkey) – 156kg/181kg
Chingiz Mogushkov wins the Snatch with 202kg
Chingiz wins the +105kg Snatch with 202kg!
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Arkadiusz Michalski (105kg, Poland) with his 227kg Clean & Jerk
Khetag Khugaev Snatches 180kg & Clean and Jerks 219kg to win 3 silvers in his first senior competition.
Update: From reader Sergeyevich “Same sinclair as 17 year old Ilyin!”
Dzina Sazanavets wins the 69kg class with a 20kg lead. She also completed most of her lifts following herself.
Valentin Hristov wins the 62kg class with ease, only using one Clean and Jerk attempt to secure a gold total.
Boyanka Kostova wins the 58kg category in a one-horse race setting 6 records.
Daniyar Ismayilov with his winning Snatch in the 69kg Category.
Oleg Sirghi (56kg, Moldova) Clean and Jerks 151kg to win the CnJ and Total Gold Medal
Sad to see no Clarence Kennedy in that list (or was there something about him not competing for a while in the interview?). Spotted his fellow youtuber Eoin Murphy though. But the list aint final anyway.
CK currently perpares for the master’s world championships 2029.
What does “M/R” mean?
Usually Main / Reserve
I want Khetag Khugaev to break the youth 94kg world record.
Not entirely sure (someone please correct me if I’m wrong), but I don’t think he will be eligible for youth records anymore (born 1997-10-21).
It’s some technicality in the rule book if I recall. I think it’s based on year so yes, he can’t break the YWRs anymore. It’s 1997->2014, although he will be 17 at the time of the competition still.
Youth is UNDER 17 as at 01 January of the current year.
“All age groups are calculated in the athlete’s year of birth.”
http://www.iwf.net/weightlifting_/participants/
Should’ve entered him to last year’s Euro Juniors for that. 😛
I expect some bigger names to be added later. The 85’s and 94’s look pretty good already.
Btw, aren’t Andranik Karapetyan and Davit Gogia banned?
Karapetyan’s ends 11.04.2015 Gogia’s 13.04.2015
I hope Ruben Aleksanyan will be able to show his quality this time. Anatolie Ciricu is also on the way back to his London form. Most of all I’d like to see Chingiz of course 😀
Been quite a while since we have seenTigran Martrosian and Arakel Mirzoyan. Once again I will eat my hat if Ivan Stoitsov actually competes. Hopefully Adrian Zelinski can finally lift to his potential in the 94s. Grennadi Muratov moving down to -105 is a pretty interesting move, hopefully it pays off for him.
Well, end of January Ivan Stoitsov did 157+200 at 80kg at the AZE nationals. So there is a good chance he will be there.
I will respectivly disagree. Results postings and/or photos and/or videos of Stoitsov seem to pop up every handful of months. Even so, he has dropped out of atleast 3 or 4 of the last competitions that he was on the start-list for.
You won the bet! 😀
Does anyone know why Stoitsov did not show? He was on the final official start list, and actually he was in Tbilisi – he posted a photo with Boyanka Kostova (she is his girlfriend, btw)
Someone know when premilar list for youth world championships in Peru will come ?
Typo in the list for Jus Roznik Novak (62 kg)?. It says his total is 208. Sounds a bit low does it?
I am happy to see Velagic lifts again. He is a very consistent lifter. It is said to see that so many lifters
are hurt most of the time, especially in the Russian team it appears that many lifters only lift once per year
or less.
Does anyone know more about this? It is just an impression or is there a real problem?
Tom Goegebuer will be 40 years old at the time of competition 🙂
That’s really impressive. You don’t see many international athletes over 35 years of age. Didn’t Leonid Taranenko win the European championships at 39 or 40?
Yeah he was 40.
Do you know when he started lifting or/and competing? Wikipedia lists his first major competition (European Championship) starting from 2009.
He started lifting internationally in the beginning of the ’90-s. His first European Championship participation was in 1993.
http://users.telenet.be/tom.goegebuer/sportrecord.html
Mahmoud Namjou won bronze in 56kg at 1956 Olympics and 1957 championship at age 40!
Norbert Schemansky won bronze in 1964 Tokyo super heavy.
Tom Goegebuer is the best senior lifter at our time.
My vote for best older lifter is VASILY ALEXEEV who won worls and europ title at about 36 years of age.
I’m very impressed that Martia Alemanno of the 69s is competing at only 1 month old.
What is the difference between old version and new version?
Is this the final Russian team? Since i remember Albegov saying his participation would depend on his health, maybe he is not healthy i don’t know.
Most likely not.
I think europeans is not interesting anymore for Albegov, he preparing for battle vs Lovchev at russian nationals to get spot in worlds and olympics.
Europeans for Mogushkov is a great chance to show himself, he strong, but his perfomances was mediocre at international events
Ruben Aleksanyan is reserve athlete with 430 entry total!!! That’s weird.
in the right column its not the entry total, its the best total of the athlete.
edit: i just realized that doesnt makes sense, too. for example, ivan markov’s best total is not 365kg.
Was hoping adam maligov would compete!
Maybe too soon after his injury
General question, not sure where to ask it so I picked the most posted thread. I noticed that sometimes in competition, you could ask for the bar to be cleaned and the floor swept. Sometimes, there’s actually stuff you want cleaned up, and other times, it would just buy you resting time before your lift (maybe you tanked your last clean and jerk after struggling hard with it and 2 min. is not enough to follow). So what are the rules regarding how often and under what circumstances you can ask for floor-sweeping and/or bar-cleaning?
This doesn’t seem to be covered in the TCRR. So I guess “when it’s reasonable/don’t be a douche”.
I haven’t followed Olympic weightlifting as much lately. Was wondering if Klokov is aiming to compete at Rio or not? Thanks
No, there are 100 people in his weightclass who are better than him. He is doing seminars and body building at the moment, since it pays better.
Well it seems he might come back this year for the Russian Champs…alongside with Akkaev.
The early classes missing seems to be a Eurosport UK thing, there will probably be streams in other languages.
e.g.
http://tv.eurosport.ru/tvschedule.shtml
yeah, also I just changed the Eurosport times to what they say on German Eurosport. Although there are still discrepancies between official schedule and what ES says.
I know you are in Peru so you must take advantages of this and head to Columbia for some rest and recreation. You will enjoy it.
Who is you right hand man in Tiblisi?
you should remove Ivaylo Filev
nice to see Hristov entered in the 62’s I always liked watching him lift
Wait, wasn’t Hristov DQ’d from the 2013 World’s for an Azerbaijani team-wide drug bust? How is he able to lift again so soon?
according to the IWF sanctioned athletes list his ban ended this april, he was also on the start list
I see that, but was wondering how. He was clearly DQ’d from the 2013 Worlds.
He was banned for a positive test at the 2013 Euros in April. Maybe you’re think of Guliyev, the 69kg guy who did a Junior WR C&J at worlds.
Nope, I am looking at this right here http://www.iwf.net/results/results-by-events/?event=253 and it says he competed in the -62 in 2013 Wroclaw and was DQ’d along with Guliyev since it was a team-bust. And I also remember he took 2 tries at 176 after Chen Lijun’s 175 in the clean and jerk and did not get either before Oscar Mosquera did 177 and failed 183. I have no idea how he’s back so soon but I see he is.
Yes he competed there, but his positive came from the euros, so that’s why they count 2 years starting from euros I think.
Why did they let him lift at the Worlds in 2013 if he popped at the Euros 6 months prior? Did they re-test his sample or something?
It was puzzling to them too.
“He did not get any official documents. “This is a complete mystery,
because after the 2013 Europeans our weightlifters participated in
several tournaments without any problems. You know that if there was
doping, we would not have been allowed.””
https://allthingsgym.com/weightlifting-news-21-indian-weightlifters-test-positive-albanian-bans/
🙂
Sorry wrong link! https://allthingsgym.com/weightlifting-news-azerbaijani-medalists-disqualified-2013-europeans/
AFAIK Elena Sukhar is still in the list (at list she is in the training camp at the moment)
Dizbalis for 94kg Champion if he doesn’t get popped for roids
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What a performance from Daniyar Ismayilov of TURKEY!!!
I like how switched from Turk-menistan to Turk-ey! 🙂
Jesus Christ, Boyanka Kostova. Three new European records and among the highest totals ever for 58 at 246. Looks like China needs Li Xueying back to challenge her going forward.
She certainly pulled out all stops, only 5kg away from the total world record :O. If all goes to plan I think we have a podium medalist next year :D. Looks like that 200kg Back Squat came in handy…
I think we’ll see at least one world record attempt from Kostova in upcoming Worlds.
Kostova is the 9th best woman among all entered.
77s will be interesting. I’m predicting the classic Albanian/Armenian bomb-out. Two out of the three will bomb out.
Of course i’m hoping for my countryman Qerimaj to win but as long as he doesn’t test positive it’s a success.
If today is a good day he’s set for 160/196.
There’s an unconfirmed theory that Albanians aren’t allowed to lift until they pay the doping fines for Godelli etc. The 48kg ALB entry didn’t appear either.
Khugatev, so close to 400. He’ll be an amazing lifter in … fuck, he’s an amazing lifter right now. 399 @ 17 years of age is incredible.
He was so close to winning. Aurimas’ final position in the 221 was not convincing. His feet weren’t in line; the barbell was crooked, and he was shaking so much that he could barely be considered motionless. When he dropped it, I thought it would be a “no lift.” But anyway, who am I?
Khugaev vs. Kydrybayev in Rio -94!! But Khugaev still looks lanky; he might have moved up by then…
Coulda, woulda, shoulda.
By the look of it he had the 220 in him, that 219 didn’t look like a very hard struggle
Chingiz,Chingiz! That BW is too high after all. He has to lift +50 kgs every time. He should consider to cut some of it and lighten his burden. Who knows what he’d be capable of.
I think the heat contributed a big margin to his struggles this time.
It was quite similar to Behdad last year when he got too tired because of his high BW. To repeat an attempt with 170+ bodyweight is probably incredibly hard. Hell, it’s hard even with a 90 kg BW if you are not in great shape. Chingiz wasn’t in his best form. I just feel sorry for him because this was his chance to become European Champion. He might not get another try.
I’m impressed he can stay at 190kg as a full time athlete. Sure he’s likey moving less than a 85 guy but he has to be in the gym 4-6 hours a day.
He’s surprisingly quick compared to his 190 kg BW. But I can’t help thinking that if he would try to change his diet a little bit he could become much more successful.
does he have a back injury? I’ve noticed some lifters do well in the snatch but blow it in the clean and jerk because of injury.
I think he just didn’t have a good day. He probably wants to get to his best for the worlds. 213 snatch was really something last year. I still think he is exceptional and predestined for great things. It will be incredibly hard to make the team for the worlds because of Albegov and Lovchev but many things can happen until that.
The 213 kg snatch was impressive, but his Clean and Jerk was rather weak. We have a saying in German that means something like snatching is a matter of luck. Clean and Jerk is a man’s business. Meaning that without really improving there he will not stand a chance.
And yes I also think he could lose 20 – 30 kg at least. If you look at Chermerkin then you can see that his lifts didn’t go up when he increased his bodyweight.
That saying is very good 😀
thats a good peace of evidence that – even on pro-level – weightlifting is more than high numbers in strength exercises: someone who back squatted 380kg and front squatted more than 300kg gets pinned with a 236kg clean.
gotta love Valegic. Just keeps on training and showing up in great shape dispite his age. Keeps on trucking
Actually
Khugaev is still a little below the level of Ilyin on Sinclair at the
same age. Ilyin’s Total gives him a current Sinclair of 462.23, whilst
Khugaev’s European Total is 458.24kg Sinclair. For
those who might like to compare exact ages, Ilyin was four days younger
than Khugaev when each made the Totals referred to above.
339 total gives Khugaev a sinclair 458.2, Ilyin got 458.8 at the 2006 WWC. Source iwrp.net
ilin had a better sinclair in 2005 when he was in the 85 class and did 170/216
Simon Kolecki 180-225 in the 94 kg cat at the age of 17 also.1999 La Coruna European Champs.
Naim Suleymanoglu 130-160 in the 56 kg cat at the age of 16! world champs
one year later 132,5-165 in the 56 kg cat too at the age of 17.Friendship Games
Rather weak performances. Pitty to see that Velagic didn’t have a strong day in the Clean and Jerk to medal in the super heavyweights.
Yes, but with few exceptions Europe’s elite is far behind Asia.
what happened to Ciricu’s elbow? anyone know?
Looks like he had a surgery.Maybe that’s why he disappeared after London.
I wonder if he tore something or broke a bone…he pointed to his elbow to show he had problems locking out fully
Ciricu anatoli is out now for mentenolone to 2023! Got busted at europeans. 2 time now, firest back in 2007.