At the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games, 61 NOCs were represented with 107 athletes with both Men and Women weightlifters. Youth World Records were broken in the Men’s 56kg and +85kg recognized in the +94kg. With 155kg in the Clean and Jerk and a Total of 283kg, the Chinese lifter MENG Cheng (CHN) broke 2 […]
Men’s +85kg competition closed the weightlifting event here in Nanjing at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games. Emotional athletes and spectators said goodbye to the Expo Center and to NanjingLele engaging the crowd during all event. Starting the Clean and Jerk on 170kg, above all challengers, MARTIROSYAN Simon (ARM) took the lead and won with ease. […]
Thailand’s CHAIDEE Duanganksorn (THA) lifted a Total of 244kg and won the Gold Medal in the last Women’s category of the competition. The battle for the second place was to be decided between the Russian lifter SHCHERBAKOVA Svetlana (RUS) and the Kazakh KAPUSTINA Tatyana (KAZ). Both lifters ended on 228kg and the Silver medal was […]
In the Snatch, the Egyptian lifter AHMED Sara (EGY) was the only one to go above 100kg and ended on first place with 103kg in the women’s 63kg bodyweight category. Keeping her strength in the Clean and Jerk, she even went for the Youth World Record at 129kg but failed to jerk it. She won […]
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In the Snatch, the Egyptian lifter AHMED Sara (EGY) was the only one to go above 100kg and ended on first place with 103kg in the women’s 63kg bodyweight category. Keeping her strength in the Clean and Jerk, she even went for the Youth World Record at 129kg but failed to jerk it. She won […]