Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Here are Rebeka Koha's lifts at the 2015 World Championships. The 17 year old from Latvia went 87/105/192 which earned her a 10th place finish. Not bad considering this was her first time being in an A session at a senior world … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Russia ... Now 18 year old Vyacheslav Yarkin snatches 165kg at 76kg Bodyweight. His next competition is the Cup of Russia in 2 weeks. His training milestones: 150kg Snatch at 17, 71kg 130kg Snatch at 15 190kg … [Continue reading]
Fernando Reis Back Squatting 320kg and Hang Snatching 180kg in the 2015 Worlds Training Hall. … [Continue reading]
Here is 2013 world champion, Kuo Hsing-Chun (58kg) Clean & Jerking up to 138kg in the 2015 Worlds Training Hall. World record in this weightclass is 141kg... In competition she missed 133kg twice before making it on her third attempt, … [Continue reading]
A 17 year old (born 01.01.1998) Sara Ahmed snatching 110kg at the 2015 Worlds! Her resume is impressive. She is 2014 Youth Olympic Champion, multiple Youth World Champion (2013/2015) and 2015 Junior World Champion. At this senior worlds she got … [Continue reading]
Here is Max Lang's (77kg, Germany) first training session after arriving in Houston. Workout: Snatch, Snatch Pulls, Squats (some Pause Squats too). Also note the German engineering at work: duct tape around the sharp Eleiko knurling to extend … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Russia ... Olga Zubova (75kg) snatching 130kg for two from the blocks! Update: Olga Snatching 135kg x2 Olga Zubova and Vladimir Safonov, snatch 130kg x 2 A video posted by Владимир Сафонов (@vladimir.safonov) on Jan 12, 2016 … [Continue reading]
From the 2015 Worlds ... Just wanted to point out the ridiculous bar bend during Meng Suping's 190kg Clean. And just because it's the internet, here is a gif: Gif Time: Just to show how much the bar bent during Meng Suping's … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Houston... Chen Lijun (62kg) from China broke two world records, one in the Clean & Jerk and one in the Total. He went 150kg in the Snatch, failing his 152kg third attempt by slipping on the platform. Followed by 183kg in the Clean … [Continue reading]