Meanwhile in Uzbekistan …
28 year old Ivan Efremov Snatches 200kg at the Uzbek National Championships.
He will lift at the 2014 Asian Games.
Ivan was 5th in London (then 105kg) with a 401kg Total (183 + 218).
From the comments of the 200kg Snatch:
His bodyweight is 117kg and he will be competing in 105+ and his goal is to do 210/255 by the next Olympic games.
Video comes from Ricky Gulyamov, who is the co-owner of Atletika Weightlifting in Burwood, Sydney, the cub Tyson trains in. The internet is a small village.
Update: Here is his 230kg Clean & Jerk
Update: After a quick chat with Ricky I have some bad news for all Ruslan Nurudinov fans…
He is injured, tore a tendon in his knee.
Update 19.09.2014: Despite of the injury, Nurudinov is likely to lift at worlds.
Longer Video from the National championships with warm up room footage.
Damn it! Really wanted to see Nurudinov at this years Worlds 🙁 (assuming he doesnt recover until then).
Awesome snatch by Efremov though!
Ricky will see Ruslan in a training camp in October. He will ask about his situation and worlds participation then.
Damn it .. really! Another epic battle we won’t get to see 🙁 Best wishes to Ruslan for a quick recovery! However, a severe knee injury means the end of a weighlifters career in many cases. Let’s hope everything turns out well.
Nurudinov suprised me again and again. When first looking at him I didn’t think he will be that good. And then he was even better. And with each competition he improved dramatically. Weightlifting podcast has a nice interview with him. I hope he recovers soon.
Skinny feller!
What was the result of the CnJ for Efremov?
Good question, I just asked Ricky. He said he did “230 easy” and “He wanted to go 240kg but coach didn’t let him”. Videos follow.
Thanks Gregor 🙂
Good news, let’s hope we’ll see Nurudinov and Ilyin on the same platform. I’m also hoping for an Aramnau back in decent shape.