Two-times reigning champion Lu Xiaojun (CHN) will not compete in this year’s men’s 77kg event. He has won the men’s 77kg a record three times in 2009, 2011 and 2013 at the World Championships. In addition he took the silver medal in 2010 behind Armenia’s Tigran Martirosyan. At last year’s World Championships he broke the […]
There were four world records, and brilliant performances by Kazakh and Chinese athletes on an exciting third day of the IWF World Championships in Almaty. The crowd at the Baluan Sholak Sports Palace in Almaty roared and cheered as their home favourite, Zulfiya Chinshanlo, won two gold medals and set two world records for Kazakhstan […]
Both Li Yajun (CHN, Women’s 53kg) and Liao Hui (CHN, Men’s 69kg) won all three gold medals at last year’s World Championships in Wroclaw. Here in Almaty they are looking to continue their gold medal haul. Both Total gold medals in men’s events thus far in Almaty have been won by participants representing DPR Korea. […]
There was drama behind the scenes in the first women’s medal event, and a second gold medal for PRK on an entertaining second day of the IWF World Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Tan Yayun, from China, made it six out of six in the World Championships with a clean sweep in the women’s 48kg – […]
Om Yun Chol had to do what only four other weightlifters have ever legally done – lift more than three times his own bodyweight – to win his latest title. In the first medal event of the 2014 IWF World Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan – the men’s 56kg – Om was not at his best […]