Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Meanwhile in Romania ... Gabriel Sincraian started a youtube series titled "Road to 300kg". Looking back at how easy he stood up with his 217kg Clean & Jerk in Rio you would think that during his prime he wasn't too far off the 300kg … [Continue reading]
From the 2015 Worlds ... Vadzim Straltsou (94kg, Belarus) clean and jerking 230kg and attempting 234kg (cleaned it!) for a new world record. Together with his 175kg snatch it was more than enough to win gold in 2015. More: Ilya Ilyin's … [Continue reading]
From the 2016 Asian Championships training hall ... Chen Xiaoting (53kg, China) doing high rep sets of Pike and Pancake Good Mornings with just the bar. More: the original Pancake Good Mornings video from junior worlds 2015 Chen … [Continue reading]
Here is a training session of team Georgia in the 2016 Europeans training hall. Lasha Talakhadze snatched 190kg like a joke and worked up to a 220kg clean and jerk. Also in the video: Revaz Davitadze (85kg, Junior) Rauli Tsirekidze … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Armenia ... 22 year old Gor Minasyan (Silver in Rio with 210 + 241) squats 320kg x3! More: Watch his 210kg Snatch in Rio. Mart Seim Squatting 320kg ... x10 #sporty #active #fan #fit #instagood #fitness #training … [Continue reading]
From the 2016 Europeans ... Yuliya Paratova (53kg, Ukraine) snatching 94kg to take home snatch gold. More: Cristina Iovu winning gold in total with 90+120 Cristina Iovu training before Europeans Rebeka Koha snatching 90kg … [Continue reading]
Here is a video from the 2015 Asian Championships. Li Ping (53kg Snatch World Record holder) and 20 year old Sukanya Srisurat in the 58kg warm up area. In competition they hit the following: Li Ping: x100, 100, x103 Snatch and x126, 126, … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in China ... 17 year old Luo Xiaomin (58kg, born 1999) front squats 135kg for five reps! At the 2016 Chinese nationals she snatched 97kg and clean and jerked 115kg. Thanks to Lawrence for the video. Definitely follow him @larrior … [Continue reading]
From the 2016 Rio Olympics ... 20 year old Andranik Karapetyan (77kg) snatching 174kg in an effort to make Lu's life a little more difficult. Heaviest snatch non-Chinese snatch ever. Mind you this was his second attempt. He went 170, 174 and … [Continue reading]