After the operation of the Olympic Champion Matthias Steiner the second male athlete of the German Team – European Champion of 2009 Jürgen Spiess – will miss the World Weightlifting Championships in Paris due an injury.
Ruth Kasirye, Norway’s best weightlifter, has prepared well for this year’s World Championships in Paris. She showed good form during the Nordic Championships in Pori, Finland, early in October (101 kg in the snatch and 127 kg in the clean and jerk). She later confirmed her good form in the regional championships in Norway a […]
69kg womenToo strong coming from behindShe may have not impressed in the snatch, but in the C&J she certainly took matters into her own hands. With a gutsy performance by hometown hero, Cinthya Dominguez (MEX) snatching 103 kg in her third attempt (for a correction), Mercedes Perez (COL) and Aremi Fuentes (MEX) trailed close behind […]
77kg MenCuba breaks the tendency Through the first two days of competition and six categories competed, the gold medals were distributed heterogeneously among six different countries. This is: CUB, PUR, COL, DOM, VEN, ECU. But one of these countries broke this tendency by winning another gold medal at the 77kg category for men. Ivan Cambar […]