By Brian Oliver at the George R Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas Rim Jong Sim defied medical advice to compete in the clean & jerk, collapsed three times, still had a clean sweep of second places, and then had to be helped on to the podium by her fellow medallists in a dramatic women’s 75kg. […]
By Brian Oliver at the George R Brown Convention Center The great Ilya Ilyin declined to compete at the 2015 IWF World Championships as he prepares for the Olympic Games next summer, but one of his training partners was expected to win the 94kg title, at which weight Ilyin won Olympic gold in 2008 and […]
By Brian Oliver at the George R Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas There was good news and bad for China, while Russia won gold, silver and bronze for total in the two medal events on day six of the 2015 IWF World Championships. Artem Okulov, junior world champion in 2013 and 2014, won the men’s […]
By Brian Oliver at the George R Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas Six different nationalities were represented in the medal ceremony for a remarkable men’s 77kg. The world record holder failed to make a total, a Kazakhstan athlete who was once a flag-bearer for Azerbaijan won, an Egyptian who moved up from 69kg only six […]
By Brian Oliver at the George R Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas Another day, another two world records at the 2015 IWF World Championships. Boyanka Kostova, the Bulgarian who became an Azerbaijani in 2010, set a snatch world best with her third lift and bettered the mark for the total with her final lift in […]