Here are some videos of the 2012 German Olympic Weightlifting Trials / Black Forest Cup, Heidelberg.
Update: Video with almost all snatches. Lots in super slow motion.
Matthias Steiner who, two weeks ago, left training on a stretcher as he had an injury which left him unable to straighten up did reasonably well.
Snatch: 185kg, x190kg, x190kg
Clean & Jerk: 215kg, 225kg
Almir Velagic (+105kg)
Snatch: x177kg, 180kg, 185kg
Clean & Jerk: 220kg, 227kg, 231kg
Super slow motion of his 231kg Clean & Jerk
Tom Schwarzbach
Snatch152kg 156kg, x158kg
Clean & Jerk 197kg, x204kg, x204kg
Jürgen Spieß
Snatch: 173kg, 176kg, x179kg
Clean and Jerk: 212kg, x214kg, x215kg
Jakob Neufeld, 14th at the 2011 WWC 77kg
Snatch: x145kg, 145kg, 148kg
Clean and Jerk: 175kg, x180kg, x185kg
Julia Rohde (53kg) Snatch 75,78,80kg; Clean & Jerk 92,97kg, x100kg
Christin Ulrich
Snatch: 83kg, x86kg, 88kg
Clean and Jerk: 103kg, 107kg, 110kg
Robby Behm (105kg)
Kevin Caesemaeker
Benjamin Hennequin (85kg) bombed all his C&Js
Isn’t Jürgen Speiß hitting the bar very low in the snatch? I google him a bit and it seems that is indeed his normal technique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP-q9ReJRvU.
I can’t recall seeing anyone else snatch that way. What’s the benefit? More power in the second pull?
Don’t think there is an explicit benefit. Probably just what works for him.
It also looks like that was what made him miss the 179kg. Banged the bar too early-> bar comes out to the front-> has to pull it back -> he missed behind