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+105kg Men 2012 London Olympics Weightlifting

August 7, 2012 By 20 Comments

The Final Session!

The Men’s +105kg (B Group here) of the London 2012 Olympics is over.

BBC Recordings: will be here (I use a VPN to watch the BBC Streams)

Update: Official Recordings on YouTube

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Snatch:

This was the shocker of the evening - Matthias Steiner takes a bad hit by losing 196kg over his head (backup gif).

Update:

According to German news he has suffered a back injury. But after first examinations it seems to be nothing major.

Steiner immediately told his coach, Frank Mantek, “I can feel my legs“.

After thorough examination and CT scans they found the following:

No injuries to bones or the spinal cord.

“The examination shows a ligament injury to the cervical vertebrae, a bruised sternum and a pulled muscle in the thoracic spine” (via the German weightlifting federation).

He also said, training will go on and this is no reason to end his career now. (Thanks Martin)


Ruslan Albegov went 3/3 with 208kg on his 3rd. Being lighter than Behdad Salimi who took the same weight means that Ruslan is the leader going into the Clean & Jerk.

Interesting side note on Albegov, he left the military 3 years ago. Entered at 135kg and left at 109kg. Before the army he snatched 180kg and clean & jerked 220kg.

Ruslan Albegov 208kg Snatch London 2012 Olympics

Behdad Salimi 208kg Snatch London 2012 Olympics

Clean & Jerk:

So it was enough for Salimi to come out at 247kg on his first attempt and get Gold.

Behdad Salimi 247kg Clean Jerk London 2012 Olympics

He even took a shot at 264kg. Why not?

Sajjad Anoushiravani got 245kg and missed 251kg on his third. Silver.

Ruslan Albegov couldn’t get past 240kg. But his 208kg Snatch secured Bronze.

Sajjad Anoushiravani Hamlabad 245kg Clean Jerk London 2012 Olympics

Ruslan ALbegov 240kg Clean Jerk London Olympics

Sang Guen Jeon  became 4th with a 246kg Clean Jerk.

Sang Guen Jeon 246kg Clean Jerk London 2012 Olympics

Results:

Athlete Group Body weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
1 2 3 Result 1 2 3 Result
Behdad Salimi A 168.19 201 205 208 208 247 264 — 247 455
Sajjad Anoushiravani A 152.46 198 204 204 204 237 245 251 245 449
Ruslan Albegov A 147.15 198 204 208 208 240 245 247 240 448
Jeon Sang-Guen A 157.53 190 200 200 190 246 246 259 246 436
Irakli Turmanidze A 126.23 192 198 201 201 225 232 232 232 433
Ihor Shymechko A 137.38 197 197 200 197 225 232 237 232 429
Jiří Orság A 128.15 182 187 190 187 231 239 242 239 426
Almir Velagić A 141.41 186 190 192 192 229 234 238 234 426
Yauheni Zharnasek B 147.37 188 193 196 196 219 225 230 230 426
Chen Shih-chieh B 141.14 177 182 185 182 230 236 240 236 418
Péter Nagy B 155.55 184 191 196 191 216 225 230 225 416
Fernando Reis B 140.49 178 180 186 180 220 225 — 220 400
Kazuomi Ota B 146.51 180 184 185 185 215 215 222 215 400
Itte Detenamo B 151.32 165 170 175 175 205 215 215 215 390
Christian López B 139.15 172 177 177 172 209 209 215 215 387
Damon Kelly B 150.83 155 160 165 165 192 201 216 216 381
Frederic Fokejou B 132.74 150 155 160 160 190 200 202 202 362
Carl Henriquez B 150.38 115 122 127 122 160 160 171 160 282
Matthias Steiner A 149.98 192 196 197 192 — — — — DNF

Velichko Cholakov ”failed to show up for the weigh-in Tuesday. No reason was given.” via  

Or was it a tooth?

 

Entry Weights:

Athlete Planned 1st Snatch (Kg) Planned 1st C&J (Kg)
ORSAG Jiri 182 231
VELAGIC Almir 185 230
STEINER Matthias 190 250
JEON Sang-Guen 190 240
TURMANIDZE Irakli 192 225
ALBEGOV Ruslan 195 235
SHYMECHKO Ihor 197 225
ANOUSHIRAVANI HAMLABAD Sajjad 198 237
SALIMIKORDASIABI Behdad 201 251

 

World Records:

Snatch 214 kg Behdad Salimi
Clean & Jerk 263 kg Hossein Rezazadeh
Total 472 kg Hossein Rezazadeh

 

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  • Alejandro Chavez Medrano

    Apoteósica lucha ente Salimi y Steiner, … no la veo fácil … Se unirá la juventud vs la experiencia …

    • deepblue

      steiner wont even get into podium, its more about albegov and salimi.

  • Roberto

    hey, you tell me, what was the last time we saw a C&J above 260KG. And when will we see again?

    • lifter99

      i was too asking myself this its gonna be a loooong time seems the snatches are going up and jerks are stuck there????

  • J-Rocc

    Ilya Ilins coaches stated that he could live with the Supers. They weren’t wrong. His WR total a few days ago would have put him in the middle of the SHW pack tonight. Amazing.

  • Jay1

    In my mind a disappointing end to a disappointing series of competitions. Ilya was the highlight for sure.

    • ghosthalo2

      You must be new to lifting, nearly every session had drama and was very close-including the women sessions- We saw everything you want to see at the olympics, good drama, close competition and new records-along with an absolutely historic performance in the 94kg class by a future all time great lifter-. Gregor you did a FANTASTIC job covering the olympics for all of us, thank you.

      • GregorATG

        Thanks,
        And yeah we saw some pretty good lifting. Some of which was for the history books and will be remembered for decades to come.

      • Jay1

        You may disagree but I would appreciate it if you could lay off the ad hominem in the future.
        Do agree on the 94kg class and Gregor’s coverage of it. Great job.

  • http://www.facebook.com/adrian.sherwin Adrian Sherwin

    Was Salimi close to getting 264? He at least clean it?

    • Afferbeck

      Nah, he clarked it

    • James

      No. He touched the bar, and it clearly felt too much at that time.

  • musclefrog1488

    Does anyone have an update on Steiner? Is he OK?

  • Afferbeck

    Steiner was awesome the way he walked away from that snatch. And it looked like he was considering making another attempt for a while there. I loved when Salimi had won gold, went for an insane jump for the world record but failed, and the two Iranians celebrated on the platform. And the random london official guy is like ‘okay, get off the stage now’ and they’re both just like ‘haha whatever little man, we’re champions’.

  • Sebaschtian

    Really really good job gregor!
    Just I was so stupid not gettin’ you update the posts, just now skimmed again to all the posts.

    To Steiner: Getting 196 kg on th ehead – walk off the plattform like nothing. Just amazing.

    • GregorATG

      Thanks, yeah I will keep updating the post as long as new videos / infos trickle in.

  • Dustin Oranchuk

    anyone know what happened to Cholokov?

  • Philip Waterfield

    File’s not found, must be taken down for copyright ;) .

    • GregorATG

      Damn, now they are also going after liveleak!