Athens silver medalist Andrei Rybakou of Belarus now has the chance to fulfill his dream of Olympic gold. The 26-year old has been enjoying excellent form in recent years, winning 2006 and 2007 World Championships, as well as the 2006 European Championships. Rybakou’s best challenger would be Tigran Varban Martirosyan of Armenia who won this […]
China’s Cao Lei is likely to continue her country’s success in Weightlifting. The 24-year is a new star in this weight class, winning 2006 and 2007 World Championships, as well as 2007 and 2008 Asian Championships. She is the steadiest lifters among the finalists. Cao’s fiercest rival would be Nadezda Evstyukhina of Russia who […]
Sa Jaeh-youk (KOR), gold medallist:“I can’t even believe that I have won the Gold medal.” “(But) I was very confident. Before this event, during practice, I lifted 210kg.”“The Chinese lifter (Li Hongli) was very strong but I didn’t want to lose.” Li Hongli (CHN), silver medallist:“I do not feel shame to be second at Beijing […]
Sa Jaeh-Youk (KOR) Li Hongli (CHN) Davtyan (ARM) Sa Jaeh-youk of Korea ended China’s six-for-six winning streak in after claiming a stunning gold medal.After snatch Li Hongli (CHN) led the field by 3 kg advantage ahead of Davtyan (ARM) and by 5 kg ahead of Sa (KOR). The clean and jerk had a totally differnt […]
Liu Chunhong (CHN) was absolutely unsatisfied with the fact she only had Olympic records set up in Athens, but not a single world record in 69 kg class (she has one in 75 kg clean and jerk). She wanted to rewrite the record list and really showed top form setting up the very first five […]