Best of Olympic Weightlifting
21 year old Ruslan Nurudinov won the 105kg at the 2013 Worlds. Snatch: x190, 190, x195 Clean & Jerk: 225, 230, 235 425kg Total. 190kg Snatch Post by Weightlifting World Podcast. 235kg Clean & Jerk Post by … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile at the 2013 Worlds ... 22 year old Tatiana Kashirina (104.32kg) set a new +75kg Clean & Jerk World Record. Already on her second attempt she got the 190kg Clean & Jerk. She went 142, x147, x147 in the Snatch and 180, 190, x192 … [Continue reading]
Lu Xiaojun has done it again! 176kg Snatch World Record at the 2013 World Championships 77kg. Together with his 204kg Clean & Jerk (2nd attempt) this makes 380kg for a new World Record in the Total. Watch the Snatch in glorious 120 FPS … [Continue reading]
This was the 2013 World Weightlifting Championships Resource page. Thanks to everybody who joined chat. It was great fun as always. Event Hashtag: #2013wwc. Start List Results Men / Results Women World Records Lu Xiaojun's … [Continue reading]
This was the best snatch at the 2013 Worlds 85kg. Andrei Rybakou went 175, x179, 179 and x194, 194, 200 for a 373kg Total (6th). Overall I'd say that the 85kg was the most interesting category yet. Great performances by Artem Okulov … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile at the 2013 Worlds in Poland ... Liao Hui took the 69kg Clean & Jerk and Total World Record. Snatch:155kg, 160kg, x166kg Clean & Jerk: 186kg, 195kg, 198kg Watch it in glorious slow motion (or in full speed here at … [Continue reading]
After I posted the Chingiz Mogushkov Leaning on Things Video he started to appear in more and more photographs around the world. Who knew that Chingiz was a time traveller? #ChingizLeansOnThings was born. I shared the first one on Facebook to … [Continue reading]
Here is a little sneak peak of what's to come in the 77kg session at the 2013 Worlds on Thursday. Rasoul Taghian with a 212kg Clean & Jerk. This was from 2 weeks ago (I asked him). He is 80kg in the video. Meanwhile Lu Xiaojun was seen … [Continue reading]
This one is from commenter J. Amdal who posted this on the 2013 Worlds Page. According to the website of the Swedish Weightlifting Federation the IWF warned about severe sanctions to nations that have multiple doping cases withing 12 months. At … [Continue reading]