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62kg Men 2012 London Olympics Weightlifting

July 30, 2012 By 11 Comments

The Men’s 62kg of the London 2012 Olympics over.

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

Update: Official Recordings on YouTube

Permanent Chat at allthingsgym.com/chat/

Who predicted Kim Un Guk? !

Kim Un Guk goes 3/3 in the snatch, ties the World Record Snatch with 153kg. Still Olympic record, but why not go for 154kg dude?

Un Guk Kim 153kg Snatch Olympic Record

With 174kg in the Clean & Jerk Kim Un Guk set a new World Record in the total with 327kg.

Un Guk Kim 174kg Clean Jerk World Record Total

Video of Kim Un Guk’s World Record Clean & Jerk

Oscar Albeiro Figueroa Mosquera needed an Olympic Record to get the Silver Medal. In an amazing effort he got that 177kg Clean & Jerk on his 3rd attempt (Even though he could have made on his first, cleans looked super easy). I am sure that lion roar helped a lot.

Oscar Albeiro Figueroa Mosquera 177kg Clean Jerk

Video of Oscar Mosquera’s Olympic Record Clean & Jerk

Disappointing to see Zhang Jie not on the podium. But missing his last to snatches he was at a big disadvantage.

With 2 attempts in the C&J remaining Zhang Jie had to set a new Olympic Record, but was unsuccessful.

Results: Nobody went 6/6

Athlete Group Body weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
1 2 3 Result 1 2 3 Result
Kim Un-Guk A 145 150 153 153 170 174 174 327 327
Óscar Figueroa A 137 140 142 140 177 177 177 177 317
Eko Yuli Irawan A 138 142 145 145 162 168 172 172 317
Zhang Jie A 140 145 145 140 174 178 178 174 314
Hurşit Atak A 130 134 134 130 166 166 172 172 302
Umurbek Bazarbayev A 135 135 139 135 162 165 167 167 302
Muhammad Hasbi B 130 135 138 138 163 171 171 163 301
Erol Bilgin A 135 139 140 140 165 165 169 165 305
Ahmed Saad B 125 130 130 130 158 162 165 162 292
Manuel Minginfel B 122 127 130 127 158 158 158 158 285
Julio Salamanca B 110 115 115 110 150 150 155 150 260
Tuau Lapua Lapua B 104 108 111 108 126 131 135 135 243
Charles Ssekyaaya B 100 105 108 105 130 135 140 130 235
Stevick Patris B 100 104 108 104 125 130 132 130 234
Ji Hun-Min A 135 140 142 135 162 165 165 — DNF

 

Entry Weights:

Athlete Planned 1st Snatch (Kg) Planned 1st C&J (Kg)
ATAK Hursit 130 166
BILGIN Erol 131 165
FIGUEROA MOSQUERA Oscar Albeiro 132 170
JI Hun-Min 133 162
BAZARBAYEV Umurbek 135 162
EKO YULI Irawan 138 168
ZHANG Jie 140 175
KIM Un Guk 145 170

World Records:

Snatch 153 kg Shi Zhiyong
Clean & Jerk 182 kg Le Maosheng
Total 326 kg Zhang Jie
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  • Jonny

    Ahhh so glad I’m British! BBC website has them all waiting for me :D

    • GregorATG

      BBC FTW!

      Best 10 bucks I spend in a while.

  • ghosthalo2

    Love the pics man you should get some more up

    • GregorATG

      Have had so many. But can’t put up more because of server load. So I just post winners or top 3 :/

      • ghosthalo2

        Maybe make a separate tumblr/flickr for the other pics/gifs you are collecting.

        • GregorATG

          I’d love to, but my day only has 24hours and I barely get all the stuff done already…

  • Roberto

    more and more we can see how superstrong was Naim Suleymanoglu. Despite Kim beat his snatch by 0,5Kg,nobody can come close of 190Kg,

    • GregorATG

      Untouchable.

      Naim was one of those “once in a hundred years” guys.

  • Proody

    Why does

    Naim Süleymanoğlu not hold the C&J world record anymore? He did 190. Todays record is 177..

    • Philip Waterfield

      From the top of my head I think all the records were wiped near the start of 2000? That’s why when rezza got the world record clean and jerk it was a “new olympic standard” or something along those lines. It wasn’t an all time record. I hope someone else can clear this up.

      • GregorATG

        That is correct. After adjusting the weight classes all former records were null.