On the third competition day of the 2019 JWC in Suva, the audience witnessed an exciting competition between CHN and COL lifters GAN Hongyan and SINISTERRA TORRES Yenny in the women’s 55kg category. In the Snatch, SINISTERRA had the upper hand over GAN, with 92kg, she clinched the gold medal from the Chinese (91kg) but […]
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Congratulations to Mr. Birendra Prasad Baishya, President Indian Weightlifting Federation, IWF Executive Member, AWF Vice President, Vice President of Commonwealth Weightlifting Federation, Vice President of NOC India who has been re-elected to the Indian Parliament (Upper House – Rajya Sabha) for a term of 6 years from 2019 to 2025!
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The second day of the IWF Junior World Championships ended with the women’s 49kg bodyweight category session, where Chinese lifter, ZHAO Jinhong earned all three gold medals. In the Snatch, she produced the same result as silver medallist AISHA Windy Cantika (INA), 81kg, but as hers was the first successful lift, she got the gold. […]
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In the men’s 67kg bodyweight category, ERGASHEV Adkhamjon (UZB), 61kg Junior World Champion last year won all 3 gold medals in his new bodyweight category. He dominated the field both in the Snatch (141kg) and the Clean and Jerk (173kg), rounding up his final result to 314kg. He did not top his own World Record […]
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The Junior World Championship continued today with the men’s 61kg A session here in Suva, Fiji. Youth Olympic Games Bronze medallist TOPTAS Caner from Turkey easily won the Snatch competition with 125kg, and won the overall gold (273kg), regardless of being only fourth in the Clean and Jerk. On his first international competition, Korean BAE […]
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