Meanwhile in Rio …
That has to be one of the craziest weightlifting sessions ever, with this being one of the best lifts ever!
31 year old Lu Xiaojun snatches 177kg at 77kg! 100kg Over bodyweight!
Update 16.01.2017: 170, 175, 177kg Snatch Comparison!
Update 30.12.2016: Super Slowmo!
177kg Snatch World Record Video
202kg Clean & Jerk Video
Little did we know at this point that Nijat Rahimov was willing to Clean & Jerk whatever you put in front of him that day ….
Also an amazing lift, Andranik Karapetyan’s 174kg Snatch on his 2nd attempt.
174kg Snatch Video
Lu’s 202kg Squat Jerk
Just beautiful. Don’t know if he will retire after Rio, but anyway this is good for grand finale of the career of a weightlifting legend.
He’s really impressive. Has he ever been caught doping?
No.
wasnt he banned from 2012-2015?
Lol. No he wasn’t. He won the the olympics 2012, the WC 2013 and bombed in Houston 2015.
And Asian Games 2014.
No, Nijat Rahimov was banned from 2013-2015. Lu Xiaojun has passed every drug test, including the surprise tests they sprung on him when he visited the US to do seminars with MA Strength.
Damn, they did that? How did you know about this?
Damn, they did that? How did you know about this?
beast lift by Nijat. still do not believe he should have gotten white lights for that lift.
He should have done this lift back in 2012 though, too bad they screwed up the timer for his 3rd attempt.
…he doesn’t look happy after the lift. How weird.
Yh I was thinking the same thing when I saw his reaction, especially considering he was all smiles after he failed 177 kg last year at worlds. It must be that he’s under such immense pressure to perform on the olympic stage, that he no longer feels that same enjoyment. I think this pressure got to Lu in the C & J too, because the 202 kg attempt he made looked like quite a strain, especially considering he made 207 kg like nothing at Chinese nationals back in April this year.
Doesn’t look like he caught it perfectly, I think the strain of saving it a little caused the look
wlift84 and Realist: you two seem to be the pros concerning news around chinese weightlifting. Do you know if there are any new cctv reports/interviews/footage about the chinese performance at the olympics?
wlift84 and Realist: you two seem to be the pros concerning news around chinese weightlifting. Do you know if there are any new cctv reports/interviews/footage about the chinese performance at the olympics?
Just search CNTV for weightlifting (in Chinese) and you will see all their stuff
http://search.cctv.com/search.php?qtext=%E4%B8%BE%E9%87%8D%202016&type=video
Just search CNTV for weightlifting (in Chinese) and you will see all their stuff
http://search.cctv.com/search.php?qtext=%E4%B8%BE%E9%87%8D%202016&type=video
Just wait a couple of years at most and he may be declared champion when Rahimov is disqualified and his world record nullified for the use of PED’s. It is a sad state of affairs when one has to think in those terms. Just wish that blood tests could be done really quick because until eight years pass, the medals are just on loan.
Just wait a couple of years at most and he may be declared champion when Rahimov is disqualified and his world record nullified for the use of PED’s. It is a sad state of affairs when one has to think in those terms. Just wish that blood tests could be done really quick because until eight years pass, the medals are just on loan.
Some of you know that Oleg Perepechenov did 177.5 in a Russian national meet some years ago and looked good for 220 when he jerked 210 at 77. In the “Bulgarian years” of the previous 75 class, emphasis was on advancing the jerk. It seemed as if the limit of potential was reached and newer lifters sought to improve the snatch. This they did. However Stoichkov and Varbanov, jerk stars, snatched 94.63% as much as this 177 (167.5) and that percent is narrowed more due to they were 2kg lighter. There is something drastically wrong when the second place lifter in 77 at 2016 Olympics has a mere 25KG gap between his very high snatch result and his jerk. And what is wrong isn’t his great leg strength, but his awfully flawed method of putting the weight overhead and standing with it in the completed position. He need not have been pushed to second place. He and his coaches had lots of time to correct this folly and did not. One other note about Stoichkov in 1984 at Varna. His 210 really looked good for 220, yes I know that does not count. All he wanted to do was enough for a WR. “It was too damn easy” as Mr. Pettibone said to Chaney in Bronson’s 1975 movie “Hard Times.” Compare also that the 214 jerk of the 77kg winner in Rio had his legs very tightly covered in lifting gear, while Stoichkov didn’t even have on knee wraps. Try your best squat both ways. Without leg gear (tight pants to the knee and knee wraps) you find at least a 10% decrease. Stoichkov and Varbanov are still the best jerk lifters in the 75-76-77 range.
The thing is it’s not that easy just to fix a technical problem like that. He’s obviously not for split jerk and also not strong enough to do power jerk. Now I am not for the squat jerk at all – I think it’s just for athletes who can’t do better – but you gotta respect Lu for being such a force for years and also his snatch is one of the best in history. Awesome lifter that’s for sure. I always liked the Varbanov kind of guys with a big cnj but don’t forget: it’s about a total of the two discipline and it really doesn’t matter if the difference between the two is smaller. He’s got older of course and that affects the cnj.
Happy New Year to all weightlifting fans around the world and specifically to Gregor for this great site..
Excellent post. I suggest Lu’s form is similar to Mohamed Traboulsi. His snatch form can be seen at following site, http://liftup.chidlovski.net/liftup/l_athleteResult.asp?a_id=278. I remember seeing his snatch form in 1970 worlds (gold in snatch?). He was horrible at C&J. It is a bit strange that Turkish (non Bulgarian origin) lifters are not usually as good in C&J vs snatch. Azerbaijani lifters with Bulgarian coaches got better in C&J but we know what happened to their team.
Now that I show my age, I would like to point to older fans on this page that Mr. Chidlovski managed to find results of 1967 Little Olympic results on his page, http://www.chidlovski.net/blog/index.php/2016/12/17/forgotten-tournament-of-1967/. This tournament replaced the one and only weightlifting world that was canceled after WWll.
Wow! What is beautiful is beautiful!