Nothing could have better symbolized the level of weightlifting at the Kazan 2013 Summer Universiade than the last attempt in the +105kg category. Already holding the silver medal in his hands but still ambitious to take the gold away from Russia’s stupefying champion Ruslan ALBEGOV, young Iranian Bahador MOULAEI needed to lift 10kg more than […]
In the 105kg it was Uzbekistan’s Ruslan NURUDINOV who had to face the challenge of two Russians, one of them being the “local boy”. From the facedown between the Asian champion Uzbek, the European champion, David BEDZHANYAN and the defending Universiade champion from Kazan Andrey DEMANOV, finally NURUDINOV walked away with the gold medal (412kg) […]
In spite of an aching back, the home favourite Olympic silver medallist Alexandr IVANOV easily took the gold in the 94kg category upsetting all the three previous Universiade records (181kg, 214kg 395kg). Kazakhstan’s Alexandr ZAICHIKOV confidently won the silver medal with 375kg. The real fight went on between Lithuanian Zygimantas STANULIS and US lifter Kendrick […]
The Russians left nothing to chance on the 5th competition day in weightlifting at the Kazan Universiade. They sent doubled forces to the Men’s 85kg and the Women’s 75kg categories and in the Women’s +75kg they launched their invincible champion, Tatiana KASHIRINA. Duly enough, they pocketed all the gold and – where available – the […]
Over 300 lifters will be competing over the next four days in Brisbane at the Oceania Senior, Junior and Youth Championships in conjunction with the Australian Senior & Junior Championships. Live webcast is available here: http://video.awf.com.au/webcast