Best of Olympic Weightlifting
The IWF has posted some meeting notes from the Houston World Championships. They currently have the 2015 Technical Committee and the 2014 Financial Report (pdf formats) plus some guidelines. Some interesting snippets from the TC … [Continue reading]
Here is Tian Tao's 178kg Gold Medal Snatch from the 2015 World Championships. More: Watch him Clean & Jerk 220kg. … [Continue reading]
Here is Lydia Valentin (75kg, Spain) working up to 170kg Squat triple in the 2015 Worlds Training Hall. In the video you see: 140kg x3 150kg x3 160kg x3 x2 170kg x3 … [Continue reading]
A collection of Warm Up Area videos from the 2015 World Championships. Update: 69kg Warm Up, with Oleg Chen Shi Zhiyong and Kim Myong Hyok. And we start things off with the 62kg warm up, filmed by none other than Dr. David Boffa. … [Continue reading]
Here is a complete training session of Mohamed Ehab in the 2015 Worlds Training Hall compressed into a 20 minute video. This was a medium heavy session on November 16th. Warm Up / Mobility Snatch up to 140kg for 3 singles Clean & Jerk … [Continue reading]
Kazsport has a little Ilya Ilyin Documentary titled "The legend in his lifetime. Ilya Ilyin." If you can help translating interesting sections please leave a comment below. More: Ilya Ilyin Science of Victory Documentary Translation Your … [Continue reading]
Here's some more footage from the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships. This time Om Yun Chol (56kg, North Korea) gets a 175kg Clean (3.125x BW). A few minutes earlier he set the World Record in the Clean and Jerk for the 56kg class (again). … [Continue reading]
Here is 17 year old Sarah Ahmed (69kg, Egypt) squatting 180kg, 190kg, and 200kg in the 2015 Worlds Training Hall. Previously she medalled first at Youth Worlds, plus second at the China Grand Prix and Junior Worlds. Here she only narrowly … [Continue reading]
World Champion Nijat Rahimov (77kg, Kazakhstan) Clean and Jerks 210kg. The current World Record is still 210kg although he did have a crack at 211kg a few days ago in the 77kg Class. Make sure to follow him on instagram. A video posted by … [Continue reading]