77kg Men B Group 2012 London Olympics Weightlifting

The Men’s 77kg B Group (A Group here) of the London 2012 Olympics is over.

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Nigeria’s Felix Ekpo takes the snatch with 151kg. 1kg advantage over Andres Eduardo Mata Perez going into the Clean & Jerk.

Ekpo came out with 180kg, easy. Perez follow with 183 without much trouble.

Ekpo missed 188kg on his second, 7kg over his PB. Perez takes the same weight and makes it. 188kg turned out to be too much for Ekpo today.

Perez went for 190kg but missed his 3rd.

Results:

Rank	Athlete	Snatch	C&J	Total (Kg)
		Res. (Kg)	Res. (Kg)
1	MATA PEREZ Andres Eduardo	150	188	338
2	EKPO Felix	151	180	331
3	PAVLOV Kirill	147	175	322
4	OLIVER Jack	140	170	310
5	PERIVE Toafitu	122	167	289

 

Entry Weights:

Athlete	Planned 1st Snatch (Kg)	Planned 1st C&J (Kg)
PERIVE Toafitu	120	160
PAVLOV Kirill	135	165
OLIVER Jack	135	160
MATA PEREZ Andres Eduardo	142	175
EKPO Felix	145	180

 

World Records:

Snatch	174 kg	Lu Xiaojun
Clean & Jerk	210 kg	Oleg Perepetchenov
Total	378 kg	Lu Xiaojun