Unstoppable Chinese athletes continued their impressive run on third day at the 2005 Centennial World Weightlifting Championships in Doha, Qatar. Gu Wei, 19, won competition in the women?s 58 kg, while setting two new world records. Gu Wei now holds the records in the clean and jerk, lifting 139 kilos, and the record for total […]
The Asian countries have showed their dominance of the competition so far, at the 2005 Centennial World Weightlifting Championships in Doha, Qatar. After China?s Wang Mingjuan set nine new junior and senior records in the women?s 48 kilogram class on the first day of competition, fellow Chinese lifter Ping Li grabbed three new junior records […]
The opening day of the 2005 Centennial World Championships in Doha, Qatar produced outstanding success in the women’s 48kg and men’s 56kg categories. In the ladies’ event, defending world champion from Vancouver 2003, Wang Mingjuan set a total of 9 new world records (senior and junior) to finish in first place by a large margin […]
74 countries will take part in the 74th World Championships in Doha, Qatar. The Centennial World Championships from 9th to 17th November 2005 welcome 192 male weightlifters from 61 countries, and 115 women competitors from 43 countries: a total of 307 competitors from 74 nations. The competitions at the Al Sadd Sports Centre open on […]
The East Asian Games in Macau have rewritten the World Ranking Lists in some categories – especially in the women’s and the lighter men’s categories – but the European dominance is still prevalent throughout the current ranking of weightlifters in the world. The lists based on results from international events held up to the 2005 […]