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Yuliya Kalina 111kg Snatch (at 63kg) Ukrainian Record

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Meanwhile in Ukraine … Here is London 2012 Bronze medalist (in 58kg) Yuliya Kalina (now 63kg) Snatching 111kg at the Ukrainian National Championships. With this lift she set a new national record, which was previously held by 2004 Olympic champion Nataliya Skakun, who now coaches Yuliya. At the 2014 World Championships she will compete against Tima Turieva, Tzu Chi Lin, Deng Wei in […]

Liao Hui 200kg Clean & Jerk at Chinese Test Event *Update* 165kg Snatch

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Meanwhile in China … The Chinese Weightlifting team ran a test event in their training center. See the women’s session here. And Liao Hui (69kg) did pretty good. How Good? He got the 200kg Clean & Jerk and a 365kg Total, ergo also a 165kg Snatch. Update 30.10.2014: Finally, here is the 165kg Snatch Video Just […]

Juggernaut Olympic Training Center Squat Roundtable

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The US Olympic Training Center athletes Colin Burns, Donovan Ford, David Garcia and Anthony Pomponio sat down for a training roundtable. Topics: Training Squats during Shoulder Injuries (hip belt and safety bar squats) David Squatted 3x per week when he did his 305kg Squat Opinions on Squat Programs (Smolov, Russian Squat Program) Low Bar Back Squat is […]

1984 IWF World Cup Gala Sarajevo with 17 y/o Naim Suleymanoglu

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Blast from the Past … Here is a highlight video from the 1984 IWF World Cup Gala in Sarajevo. It features a 17 year old Naim Suleymanoglu, Asen Zlatev, Blagoy Blagoev, Yurik Sarkisyan and more. What’s different about this is, that athletes were ranked according to how close they lift (percentage wise) to the world record of their […]

Mart Seim 353kg Squat

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Meanwhile in Estonia … Mart Seim bests his old Squat PR by 3kg and gets 353kg. With only 3 weeks to go until the +105kg session at worlds I asked him how long before a competition he squats heavy. His answer: I haven’t squatted over 320 in over 2 months, but today I was feeling good so I […]

Saeid Mohammadpour 191kg Snatch Iranian Record

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Meanwhile in Iran … Saeid Mohammadpour broke the Iranian 105 Snatch record by Hossein Tavakkoli. His 190kg Snatch from the Sydney 2000 Olympics stood for 14 years. [Video] He lifted 191kg at 100.9kg bodyweight and also got a 225 C&J (via). I expect this record to be broken multiple times in the near future as Saeid fully grows into the […]

Dmitry Klokov 191kg Thruster

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Meanwhile in Australia … Dmitry Klokov PRs his Thruster with 191kg (watch 190kg here) at one of his Seminars. And as he said in his latest interview: You can’t train like I do and push around weights like 240kg. you just can’t, but Snatching 190, that’s not really a problem” Here’s a 190kg Snatch