Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Meanwhile at Youth Worlds 2017 ... 13 year old Chen Yarou the 44kg category with a 92 clean and jerk, when the Youth WR is 93! She weighed in at only 41.46! 13 y/o Chen Yarou (44kg, @hookgripchn) clean and jerking 92kg/202lb at a … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile at Europeans 2017 ... Bernardin Kingue Matam (68.75kg, France) becomes European champion! After a rough start in the the snatch (140kg, x143, x144) he took the title with an all out 180kg clean & Jerk and finished the show off … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile at European Weightlifting Championships 2017 ... Anaïs Michel (48kg, France) becomes 2017 European Champion with 80kg Snatch + 100kg Clean & jerk! … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile at 2017 Europeans ... At the moment short clips are all I have time for here in Split (literally spending all day filming). So here is Bernardin Kingue Matam (@bernybernardin) (69kg, France) squatting 220kg at the end of his first … [Continue reading]
The Olympic channel made a 26 minute Oscar Figueroa documentary, portraying his journey through the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympic games. You'll get insights into how a cervical hernia was ultimately responsible for his odd 2008 bomb out. A … [Continue reading]
Here is a documentary that could use a translation / summary. It's about Angel Genchev, who clean and jerked 202.5kg at 67.5kg bodyweight at the 1988 Olympics. It seems to be of the "where are they now" kind. Maybe there are some … [Continue reading]
Here is Rebeka Koha's full session from her latest Bundesliga weightlifting competition (Chemnitzer AC vs AV Speyer). This was the same competition as Max Lang's Europeans Qualifier. Rebeka went 3/3 in the snatch with 87, 90, 92kg. In the … [Continue reading]
Stumbled across this fun clip from the 2015 worlds training hall ... Lasha Talakhadze performing Muscle Snatch triples with an empty bar. More: Watch his 200kg Snatch Session from Summer 2016. Update 30.05.2017: A double with 110kg … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Spain ... After snatching 130kg from blocks, Lydia Valentin squats 170kg x3! More: Watch her do the same in the Houston Worlds Training Hall. Sentadillas por la mañana 170kg ..preparando las piernitas para la tarde ??? A … [Continue reading]