Blast from the Past …
Wlift84 sent in this gem from the 2000 Olympics.
A 17 year old Zhang Xiangxiang lifts 125/162.5/287.5
He wrote:
Before Meng Cheng there was Zhang Xiangxiang…
The Beijing Olympic champion at 62kg was only 17 when he won his first Olympic medal, the 56kg bronze at the 2000 Sydney games.
He lifted 125/162.5/287.5 for third place on bodyweight. The C&J and Total were Junior WRs at the time and surpass Meng Cheng’s current Youth WRs of 155 and 283.
Since the IWF only established the Youth category a few years later and decided not to look for records retroactively these lifts are lost to the record books.
Some of his other Youth results include 127.5/155/282.5 from his second place at the 2000 Asian Championships as well as 127.5/157.5/285 with which he won the 1999 Chinese Nationals at only 16.
