2015 World Championship in Houston, TX: WR, 171kg/376lb C&J (Video)
Om Yun Chol (PRK, M56kg) sets a new WR with a 171kg/376lb C&J. pic.twitter.com/0mLEJUf5rN — FloElite (@Flo_Elite) November 22, 2015
Om Yun Chol (PRK, M56kg) sets a new WR with a 171kg/376lb C&J. pic.twitter.com/0mLEJUf5rN — FloElite (@Flo_Elite) November 22, 2015
Chen Lijun with a World Record 183kg/403lb C&J at 62kg bw! pic.twitter.com/Ua4GCLuBeC by FloElite (@Flo_Elite) November 23, 2015
Second day of competitions for class A athletes in Houston, TX brought another set of world records. In the men’s 62KG weightclass, Lijun Chen broke world records in clean-and-jerk and total. New featherweight champion...
The podium of medal winners in the women’s 53KG looked happy. Shu-Ching Hsu from Taipei and Xiaoting Chen showed the same total of 221KG. Hsu was lighter on her bodyweight and won the gold....
When Team Spain arrived to Houston, TX for the 2015 World Championship in Olympic weightlifting, the web exploded with pictures of Lidia Valentin in the training hall. Lidia is one of the Team Spain...
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Houston, TX gave a warm and classy welcome to the World Championship of Olympic weightlifters. Olympic weightlifters responded with setting two outstanding world records in the first day of the competitions of the Class...
To be honest with you, I’ve never seen this book before. This is a self-published book by Arkady Vorobyev, legendary Soviet weightlifter, coach, teacher and author of various textbooks on Olympic weightlifting. Unlike most...
Who said that Olympic weightlifting is not entertainment? Ask Jay Leno about it… Capture: Olympic weightlifter Shane Hamman lifts host Jay Leno on August 1, 2000. Shane came to Olympic weightlifting from powerlifting. He competed...
I really loved my old gym. By today’s standards, it looked like dungeons. But we loved it. It was located in the basement of our old University building in Moscow. It was dusty and...