In the 105kg, Gennady MURATOV, Russia, had no special difficulties in becoming the 2012 University world champion. In fact, representing a class on his own, he came out when the others had finished, among which the member of the strong Moldova team, Andrian ZBIRNEA reached the highest results. MURATOV recorded very impressive 175kg and 220kg […]
The ladies finished their World Championships with the +75kg category on the final day in Eilat. It was going to be a showdown between the 2012 Junior world champion, YAO Chi-Ling of Chinese Taipei and 2010 Asian Games winner and World Championships silver medallist MENG Suping of China. It soon turned out, however, that the […]
When the men’s 85kg came around, there was no doubt that former Youth Olympic and junior champion Artem OKULOV (18 years old) from Russia had the biggest chance to win. In a large field of 16 lifters, he won the snatch by a large margin (162kg) and so did not have to fear the challenge […]
With Korean WON Jeongsik and Artiom PIPA from Moldova as the protagonists, an exciting fight could be witnessed in the men’s 69kg category, where each lift changed the ranking order and the last one in clean and jerk finally proclaimed the Korean as the champion on bodyweight. Both lifters totalled 318kg and pushed Armenian AVETISYAN […]
Moldova and Japan among the men, China alone among the women have been supreme so far at the 3rd University World Championships in Eilat. Coming with a star-studded team including former Youth Olympic, world and junior world champions, the Chinese student squad contributes to the edge and high quality of the event. In the men’s […]