Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Here is Lu Xiaojun's heavy squat session which he did 3 days before competing at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships. Included is his warm up with massage and stretching. More: Lu in the 77kg Warm Up Room at Worlds Watch his … [Continue reading]
The Olympics Channel has had a weightlifting week, in this episode they interviewed Pyrros Dimas and ask him about his rise to Olympic champion. … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Russia... Last weekend Kirill Sarychev benched 335kg! (Lift at 8:50) Follow him on instagram. New world record 335kg (738lbs ) #sarychev #wrpf #benchpress A video posted by Sarychev Kirill (@sarychevkirill) on Nov 25, … [Continue reading]
Here is a collection of training hall videos from the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships. Part 1 can be found here. Let’s collect them all. Post yours in the comments. Here is Part #1 and here’s the 2014 Edition. Team Italy 39 year-old … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Iran... Kianoush Rostami (85kg, Iran) posts a 221kg Clean and Jerk to his instagram. At a press conference after winning the World Championships in 2014 he said he had done 220kg before. Hopefully we'll see more footage like this as … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile at Houston... This time a Junior World Record falls! Elkhan Aligulizada (77kg, Azerbaijan) finished the group with a new Junior World Record Clean and Jerk, 203kg! The old record was set by Taner Sağır (77kg, Turkey), along with the … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile at the World Weightlifting Championships... The records keep falling! This time Boyanka Kostova (58kg, Azerbaijan) increases the 9 year old Snatch World Record in the 58kg class by 1kg to 112kg and the 8 year old 251kg Total World Record … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in San Marino ... Finally someone tackled the 200kg Thruster! While on vacation after Russian Championships, Aleksey Lovchev sets the new Thruster World Record. I bet once he does this exercise a more regularly we will see huge … [Continue reading]
Here is a collection of training hall videos from the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships. Let’s collect them all. Post yours in the comments. Here's 2014 Edition. Because this post got too long Here is Part 2. Lesman Paredes (94kg, … [Continue reading]