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Weightlifting News: Team Azerbaijan Banned *Update* 18 Athletes

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(Originally posted Mar 15, 2014. Jump to the latest update) Five Azerbaijani medalists from the 2013 Europeans have been disqualified and stripped off their medals. (via) Who? Valentin Hristov (62kg), Silvia Angelova (48kg), Intigam Zairov (94 kg), Sardar Gasanov (69) and Zulfugar Suleymanov (62 kg). Zlatan Vanev, the head coach of team Azerbaijan said: “I’m in shock, I do […]

Siamand Rahman 285.5kg Bench Press Dubai 2014

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Meanwhile in Dubai … Siamand Rahman won the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships. The giant weighed in at 179.57kg and went 275kg, 281kg, 285kg and 285.5kg for a new World Record in the +107kg class (just as they in weightlifting, the IPC recently changed weight classes from +100 to +107kg. By the way, this was not the only […]

Lydia Valentin 121kg Snatch + 147kg C&J European Weightlifting Champion

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Meanwhile in Israel … This deserved its own post. Lydia Valentin (75kg) finally managed to win her first European championship. She went 6/6 with Snatch: 115, 120, 121 (Gold) Clean & Jerk: 137, 144, 147 PR (Gold) Thanks for the videos Yair! (Check out Yair’s Bar Path Tracking app “Platform Helper” for Android) For complete recordings […]

Antoniy Savchuk 310kg Squat + 325kg Deadlift

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Meanwhile in Russia … 18 year old Antoniy Savchuk (+105kg) squats 310kg. In the 2014 Russian Cup (videos here) he did 184+231 and recently in the Russian Junior championships he went 180+225 (not taking 3d attempts). For comparison, in 2008 when Ruslan Albegov (then 19) lifted in the Russian junior championships he did 172+221.

Artem Okulov 190kg, 180kg x2 Hang Snatch *Updated* with Interview

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(Originally posted March 22, 2014. See Updates) Meanwhile in Russia … Still only 19 years old Artem Okulov gets a 190kg Hang Snatch! Update: I asked Artem about his weight. He was 88kg in the video! Update: Jump to the interview below. Just for reference: the 94kg Snatch World Record still stands at 188kg. Simply amazing. Also […]

Oxana Karpunenko 155kg Clean & Jerk

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Meanwhile in Russia … 22 year old Oxana Karpunenko (75kg) gets a 155kg Clean & Jerk. She was the 2012 European U23 Champion and will lift in the 2014 Europeans 75kg, where she has the second highest entry total (245kg vs Lidia Valentin’s 255kg). In the past comps she competed at 80kg, so we will see […]