In the 2010/2 edition readers can find a full preview of the upcoming main qualification event in Antalya. Moreover, it also includes the summary of the Junior World Championships held in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. You can subscribe to World Weightlifting by contacting IWF.
Singapore – 19 August 2010: The last two men’s categories – 85kg yesterday and +85kg this morning – wound up the 1st Youth Olympic Games in Singapore: for weightlifting an entirely successful debut. Suspense and drama were both prevalent in the men’s 85kg category, when Russian Alexey Kosov, after convincingly in the lead in snatch […]
Last evening I attended the weightlifting event. It was the 85kg weight class for young men. There was a bit of a drama at the beginning because the athlete from Pakistan, Irfan BUTT was not yet properly entered. There had been some difficulty in finding his coach. As it turned out, the young man did […]
Singapore – 18 August 2010: In the men’s 77kg Russian Artem Okulov even had bad luck as the clock ran down for his second clean and jerk attempt, yet his overall performance displayed explosive power and he won with a very convincing 327kg over silver medallist Chatuphum Chinnawong of Thailand (311kg). Rustem Sybay (KAZ) easily […]
Singapore – 17 August 2010: Should world records be officially announced at the Youth Olympic Games, on Day 3 of the YOG, Deng Wei (CHN) would have to be publicly credited 6 Youth World Records and even 1 Junior World Record to, and Zulfiya Chinshanlo (KAZ) one new Youth World Record in the women’s 58kg. […]