Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Here is the second heaviest Snatch of 2015. (Best was 211kg by Aleksey Lovchev) Georgia's Lasha Talakhadze with 207kg More: Watch Lasha's 200kg Snatch + 240kg Clean & Jerk Training Session Lasha's 247kg Clean & Jerk … [Continue reading]
Here are all Snatches 200kg or greater at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships Aleksey Lovchev 200kg, 206kg, 211kg Lasha Talakhadze 200kg, 207kg Gor Minasyan 201kg, 203kg Irakli Turmanidze 202kg Yauheni Zharnasek 201kg All … [Continue reading]
A couple of days ago Mohamed Ehab told me that he will go for a new Snatch PR on Wednesday (18.11.2015). After his morning session, which was very light, I jokingly went up to him and was like "Hey what happened to the Snatch PR you were talking … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in the Training Hall at the 2015 World Championships ... 22 year old Lasha Talakhadze (155kg, Georgia) snatches 200kg for two singles. He also Clean & Jerked up to 240kg this session. Update 14.02.2016: 200kg Snatch Slow Motion … [Continue reading]
From the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships ... Chen Xiaoting (53kg) fighting to save her 101kg Gold Medal Snatch while her Coach next to me almost had a heart attack. Translation from William K on YouTube: 0:04-0:05 "lao gao!" means … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Russia ... Olga Zubova Jerked 160kg for a double during her worlds prep. Update: 170kg Jerk Olga Zubova and Vladimir Safonov, jerk 170kg!!! A video posted by VLADIMIR SAFONOV (@vladimir.safonov) on Jan 27, 2016 at 7:43am … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in South Africa I think (?) Anyway this is Norway's fastest female sprinter Ezinne Okparaebo doing some epic stair jumps. More Jumping: Barbell Broad Jumps with Mohamed Ehab Werner Günthör Plyometric Training Stair … [Continue reading]
Here is Om Yun Chol's 160kg Clean & Jerk, which he did on November 17th, four days before he set the new world record of 171kg. Update 03.01.2016: Here is his complete session working up to the 160kg. It includes the Clean Pulls, Weighted … [Continue reading]
One of the "whoa!" moments from the 2015 President's Cup ... Just as she did at Asian Championships Wang Zhouyu (75kg) Power Cleaned her first and second Clean & Jerk attempts. More: Watch Ilya Ilyin's 246kg Clean & Jerk World Record. … [Continue reading]