The 2019 European Junior and u23 championships are underway in Bucharest, Romania. It’s a gold qualification event for the juniors. Live Stream on YouTube Startlist PDF Recordings Live Stream Highlights 17 year old Nina Sterckx (49kg, Belgium) snatching 83kg for a new Youth World Record! Schedule
Lasha Talakhadze 267kg Clean & Jerk Heaviest Clean & Jerk on Video
Finally here is a 🥔 recording of Lasha’s 267kg clean and jerk, which he did a week before Europeans 2019! View this post on Instagram The long awaited video of @talakhadzelasha_official clean and jerking 267kg/588.6lb in training in Batumi before 2019 Euros! @doctor_giorgi 🥔 🎥 A post shared by hookgrip (@hookgrip) on Oct 14, 2019 […]
Lasha Talakhadze 220kg Snatch 264kg Clean & Jerk All-Time World Record Total
25 year old Lasha Talakhadze setting an all-time world record total at the 2019 world weightlifting championships. Snatches: 208, 215 and 220kg (WR) Clean & Jerk: 247, 255 and 264kg (WR)
Mohamed Ehab Announces Retirement from Weightlifting
Meanwhile in Egypt … In rather sad news, my favorite lifter and friend, Mohamed Ehab announced his retirement from professional weightlifting 🙁 Egypt recently received an 18 moths long country ban, for doping violations stemming back to 2016, when seven youth athletes failed their tests. In addition to that it was also just announced that […]
Li Dayin vs Lu Xiaojun – Snatches at 2019 World Championships
35 year old Lu Xiaojun and 21 year old Li Dayin going head to head at the 2019 world championships.
2019 World Weightlifting Championships
The 2019 world weightlifting championships will be held in Pattaya, Thailand. The Entry List (PDF) is out. As always the final start list will be published by IWF after the final verification meeting one or two days before competition. When: 18 – 27th September Update: Start List (PDF) is out. Mohamed Ehab at worlds (he […]
Team USA Heavy Training at Pan Am Games Training Camp
Dr. Boffa was on location shooting part of Team USA’s Pan American Games team during their last heavy session at home before leaving for Lima. Below is the snatch video from that session. Highlights include: Kate Nye – 112kg Snatch PR (Unofficial Junior World Record Snatch) Harrison Maurus – 150kg Snatch Jourdan Delacruz – 89kg […]
Shi Zhiyong 190kg Power Clean & Jerk 2019 Tokyo Test Event
Too much power… Shi Zhiyong’s 190kg Pow Clean & Jerk from the 2019 Tokyo Olympics test event. View this post on Instagram Shi Zhiyong (73kg, @hookgripchn) with a 190kg/418lb pow clean and squat jerk! He’s the 2016 Olympic Champion as well as 2015 and 2018 World Champion and he has a very good chance of […]
Ritvars Suharevs 200kg Clean & Jerk
Meanwhile in Latvia … 20 year old Ritvars Suharevs finally hit a 200kg Clean & Jerk! Can’t wait to see him hit that in competition soon! View this post on Instagram 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣KG C&J❗️❗️❗️ Finally I did that, I dreamed about 200kg lift from childhood. One dream is done ✅ now I need to achieve other […]