2005 world champion Dmitriy Klokov (RUS) is favored to win. The 25-year-old has performed quite consistently for the past few years, grabbing a gold at the 2005 WC and bronze at both the 2006 and 2007 World Championships. Twenty-year-old Andrei Aramnau (BLR) is another possible winner. The young man lifted 423kg in the 2007 World Championships to […]
Ilya Ilin (KAZ), gold medallist: “In my second snatch I hurt my elbow and the doctor tried to fix it. I was worried that I could not compete, but my coach helped me and gave me confidence. He helped me stand up psychologically. In the clean and jerk I got 226kg. I began to […]
Ilya Ilin (KAZ), winner of the 2006 WC was among the favorites to win the gold, along with Szymon Kołecki (POL), world record holder in clean and jerkl and Nizami Pashayev (AZE), the world champion in 2005. Pashayev did best among the lifters in the snatch, reaching 181kg after three attempts. Ilin gave up his […]
IWF President welcomed LOCOG 2012 officials, Ms. Deborah Jevans, Director of Sport and Mr. David Luckes, Head of Sports Competition for a meeting on the London Games
85 countries’ athletes take part at the Games as Indian lifter, Ms. Laishram Monika Devi (69kg) was withdrawn from the competition by the Indian Olympic Association. Mubarak Musoke Kivumbi (56kg) from Uganda could not participate as he could not make his bodyweight at the weigh-in. Jaber Saeed Salem (+105kg) will miss the Games as well because of an […]