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Iran is seeking for new world record in superheavyweight

Iran’s weightlifting team has participated in Paris 2011 World Championships with its young and powerful athletes. Behdad Salimi, world’s champion in super heavy weight and gold medalist at Asian Games 2010, is Iran’s greatest hope.All members of Iran’s national team arrived in Disneyland on Tuesday, and they had their training sessions in the evenings. But […]

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David Luckes: Weightlifting is a fantastic sport

David James Luckes (43) helped in UK2012 Olympic bid and is now in charge of Sport Competition for London Organizing Committee. Yesterday he visited the competition Arena. “It is a very interesting place to run a World Championship. The Dome is really very atmospheric, it has its own flavor. In terms of my short stay […]

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Podobedova’s dream on triple gold in Total

Due to Polish Dolega’s operation and Kazakh Maneza’s defeat in Paris out of three Podobedova remained the only athlete who can win all three world championships titles presented after Beijing Olympic Games. In Goyang city (2009) she defeated Chinese Olympic Champion Cao Lei and in Antalya (2010) she won the gold in front of Russian […]

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Martirosyan is ready to win again

World Championship title holder (77kg) Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan has nothing else in his mind than to win another gold medal in Paris. He lost his father and the tragic loss gave him more strength. Tigran realized how hard fight is in front of him but as he said a real sportsman must overcome all difficulties […]

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Russian sandwich with Chinese flavor in the middle

Xiang Yanmei this year’s 75 kg Asian Champion moved to 69 kg to fight against a very strong Russian duo. The junior lifter performed well with three correct attempts finishing snatch at 116 kg. This weight made Huang (TPE) unworried as well. After six years absence the 36 years old athlete returned with a bronze […]

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