Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Meanwhile at the World Weightlifting Championships... Mohammed Ehssan (+105, Egypt) got a big training total, possibly the heaviest snatch in the halls so far. At the 2014 World Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan, he went 193/243/436 for a bronze … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Uzbekistan... Ricky Gulyamov has started uploading more training footage. This time we see another 5kg on Sardorbek Dusmurotov's Back Squat with 325kg. In the comments Ricky says he did 330kg afterwards and there will be more footage … [Continue reading]
A German TV documentary "Geheimsache Doping" by ARD about the the systematic doping in Russia is making its rounds through the internet. The Guardian wrote a piece about it here, the BBC here and WADA also released a statement. TL;DW: The … [Continue reading]
Wlift84 made a cool compilation of Chinese lifters who squat jerk. This one takes the prize for best opening attempt in my opinion. … [Continue reading]
Here is a training session from Ding Jianjun (62kg, China) in the 2015 Asian Championships Training Hall. This was a couple of days after he competed. … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Armenia Russia*... Simon Martirosyan has been posting quite regularly in the run up to the 2015 World Championships. He's currently on the start list competing in the 105kg class with a 400kg entry total (18th November is the final … [Continue reading]
Visited Vasiliy Polovnikov today at Moorestown Weightlifting Club in New Jersey. He went up to 180kg in the Snatch. Then started squats at 300kg and went up to 320kg x2. … [Continue reading]
Let's watch the Iranian team in the Asian Championships training hall. Update 11.11.2015: Team Video featuring Bahador Moulaei, Ali Hashemi, Mostafa Rajaei, Ali Miri, Majid Askari and Hossein Tavakoli. … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Azerbaijan ... Firidun Guliyev (69kg European U23 Champion) Clean & Jerks 195kg. More: See him in the European Junior & U23 Training Hall 06 11 2015 195 kq A video posted by firidun.quliyev (@firidun.quliyev) on Nov 9, … [Continue reading]