European Championships 2021 – W45

Results and information for the Women’s 45 kg category at the European Weightlifting Championships 2021 (postponed from 2020)

See our European Weightlifting Championships 2021 hub for details of other categories. 

How The A Session Happened

The standout lifter on the snatch was Bulgaria’s Nadezhda Nguen. While several other lifters missed attempts at 69 kg, she made all three of her attempts at 67, 70 and 72 to take a gold medal and carry a four-kilo lead into the clean and jerks, with Melisa Gunes (Turkey) in second place on 68.

Clean and jerks opened with Radmila Zagorac blacking out under her 75 kg opening clean and having to follow herself. Her second attempt featured a really slow clean recovery but was successful, despite one red light from a referee.

The drama continued with Tihana Majer (Croatia) who basically had to recover her clean twice after losing balance on the first recovery. She nailed the jerk though.

Nguen had a tougher battle on clean and jerks, missing two lifts to give an opportunity for other lifters to challenge. However, despite Nguen’s teammate Ivana Petrova hitting an 85 kg jerk for the clean and jerk gold, she was not able to stick 89 for the win on total.

	Name	Nation	Entry	Snatch 1	Snatch 2	Snatch 3	C&J 1	C&J 2	C&J 2	best snatch	best c&J	total
1	NGUEN Nadezhda	BUL	165	67	70	72	x83	83	x85	72	83	155
2	PETROVA Ivana	BUL	163	65	67	x69	x85	85	x89	67	85	152
3	GUNES Melisa	TUR	158	x63	63	68	80	83	x85	68	83	151
4	PANA Cosmina	ROU	160	63	66	x69	80	x84	84	66	84	150
5	LOMACHYNSKA Anhelina	UKR	162	67	x69	x69	x82	82	x85	67	82	149
6	DUMITRESCU Bianca	ROU	160	x63	64	x68	x78	x78	78	64	78	142
7	ZAGORAC Radmila	SRB	155	63	x66	x68	x75	75	x78	63	75	138
8	MAJER Tihana	CRO	154	x63	x63	x63	78	x81	81	–	81	–

About The Champion

The win here gives Nadezhda Nguen (Bulgaria) her first senior international medal. Her previous best result was a silver at the European U17 championships in 2017.

Nguen was one of many Bulgarian athletes to be sanctioned in 2015 after testing positive for Stanozolol. She served a nine-month suspension.

Start list for A Session

Lot	Name	Born	Nation	Cat.	Age	Entry
46	MAJER Tihana	14.06.1991	CRO	45	SE	154
49	ZAGORAC Radmila	24.01.2001	SRB	45	SE	155
131	PANA Cosmina	18.12.2001	ROU	45	SE	160
155	DUMITRESCU Bianca	16.06.2000	ROU	45	SE	160
209	LOMACHYNSKA Anhelina	02.09.1996	UKR	45	SE	162
231	NGUEN Nadezhda	01.07.2000	BUL	45	SE	165
266	PETROVA Ivana	26.08.2001	BUL	45	SE	163
270	GUNES Melisa	16.04.2001	TUR	45	SE	158

For other sessions for this category, see the full start book.