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Lu Xiaojun 176kg Snatch World Record (and 204kg C&J)

October 24, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Lu Xiaojun has done it again! 176kg Snatch World Record at the 2013 World Championships 77kg. Together with his 204kg Clean & Jerk (2nd attempt) this makes 380kg for a new World Record in the Total. Watch the Snatch in glorious 120 FPS slow motion (or in full speed here).

2013 World Weightlifting Championships

October 24, 2013 By Gregor Winter

This was the 2013 World Weightlifting Championships Resource page. Thanks to everybody who joined chat. It was great fun as always. Event Hashtag: #2013wwc. Start List Results Men / Results Women World Records Lu Xiaojun’s 176kg Snatch World Record Tatiana Kashirina’s 190kg Clean & Jerk World Record Liao Hui’s 198kg Clean & Jerk World Record Recordings Good […]

Andrei Rybakou 179kg Snatch at 2013 Worlds

October 24, 2013 By Gregor Winter

This was the best snatch at the 2013 Worlds 85kg. Andrei Rybakou went 175, x179, 179 and x194, 194, 200 for a 373kg Total (6th). Overall I’d say that the 85kg was the most interesting category yet. Great performances by Artem Okulov (172+209=381), Ivan Markov (175+206=381) and of course the man himself, Apti Aukhadov (175+212=387). Full Speed […]

Liao Hui 198kg Clean & Jerk World Record

October 23, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile at the 2013 Worlds in Poland … Liao Hui took the 69kg Clean & Jerk and Total World Record. Snatch:155kg, 160kg, x166kg Clean & Jerk: 186kg, 195kg, 198kg Watch it in glorious slow motion (or in full speed here at 53:00). Update: Here is HookGrip’s Sequence of it. For Recordings of the 69kg session […]

Chingiz Leans on (even more) Things

October 22, 2013 By Gregor Winter

After I posted the Chingiz Mogushkov Leaning on Things Video he started to appear in more and more photographs around the world. Who knew that Chingiz was a time traveller? #ChingizLeansOnThings was born. I shared the first one on Facebook to get the ball rolling and especially reader/photoshop ninja Paul created some hilarious ones. If you want […]

Rasoul Taghian 212kg Clean & Jerk

October 22, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Here is a little sneak peak of what’s to come in the 77kg session at the 2013 Worlds on Thursday. Rasoul Taghian with a 212kg Clean & Jerk. This was from 2 weeks ago (I asked him). He is 80kg in the video. Meanwhile Lu Xiaojun was seen doing easy 200kg Clean & Jerks in […]

Weightlifting News: Stricter Sanctions for Countries Caught Doping

October 22, 2013 By Gregor Winter

This one is from commenter J. Amdal who posted this on the 2013 Worlds Page. According to the website of the Swedish Weightlifting Federation the IWF warned about severe sanctions to nations that have multiple doping cases withing 12 months. At the meeting in Wroclaw the IWF informed that 1856 doping controls has been made […]

Om Yun Chol 169kg Clean & Jerk World Record

October 21, 2013 By Gregor Winter

I’ve been looking for this for a while now… Thanks to Nat from HookGrip we get to see the video of Om Yun Chol’s Clean & Jerk World Record (beating Halil Mutlu’s 168kg from 2001). 169kg at 56kg bodyweight! Triple (+) Bodyweight at age 21! Happened last month at the 2013 Asian Interclub Senior Weightlifting Championships Pyongyang, North Korea. And […]

Lu Xiaojun 260kg Paused Squat in 2013 Worlds Training Hall

October 20, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile in Poland … Lu Xiaojun Pause Squats 260kg in the 2013 Worlds Training Hall. Update: See Lu’s 176kg Snatch World Record here. Video comes again from David Boffa, who also wrote about it here.