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Lasha Talakhadze and Kaye Nye win IWF 2019 Weightlifters of the Year

Lasha Talakhadze and Kate Nye Win the 2019 IWF Lifter of the Year Awards

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A record number of 50,514 weightlifting fans voted for the 2019 IWF World Weightlifter of the Year. It is certainly reassuring to see that weightlifting is still growing in popularity, despite recent troubles from within our sport. Lasha Talakhadze (GEO +109kg) This year Georgia’s Lasha Talakhadze defended his title on the men’s side, winning for …

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Lu Xiaojun Interview and best lifts ever

Lu Xiaojun Interview | Best Training Lifts, Strength vs Technique, & His Current Training Focus | Part 1

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Lu Xiaojun (CHN -81) is arguably the greatest weightlifter of the last decade. He won his first World Championship title in 2009 at the age of 25, and then, after a decade of more gold medals and world records at the Olympics and World Championships he won again at the 2019 World Championships aged 35. …

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Simon Martirosyan heavy training, max snatch, world records, at the 2019 World Championships

Simon Martirosyan (ARM -109) Training & Snatch World Record | ’19 WWC

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Simon Martirosyan, Olympic silver medalist and two-time world champion put on a show over the days before he went out and set a new world record at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships. 110kg muscle snatches, 200kg speed back quats, multiple snatches at 180kg, and a 210 kg jerk, not to mention his incredible 199 kg …

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Team China weightlifting compete in Tramelan, Shi Zhiyong topless as the photo

China’s A-Team head to Switzerland for 49th ‘Challenge 210’

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The 49th ‘Challenge 210’ takes place next week in Tramelan, Switzerland, October 24-27th. This competition is a bronze tier qualifying event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and acts as one of the six necessary competitions that can fulfill qualification. Amongst those on the start list for this competition are China’s A-team, a team that comprises …

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The strngest woman in the world Tatiana Kashirina not on Russia's doping list

Kashirina, Albegov, and Okulov Excluded from Russia’s Testing Pool

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Five-time World Champion Tatiana Kashirina, Olympic medalist Ruslan Albegov, World Champion Artem Okulov, and others appear absent in Russia’s National Testing Pool (NTP) and Registered Testing Pool (RTP). Russia’s NTP and RTP serve to ensure two things: that athletes remain clean throughout all competitive and non-competitive seasons that athletes who are doping are caught and …

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Egyptian Weightlifter Mohamed Ehab announces retirement in light of Egyptian doping cases

Mohammed Ehab (EGY) Retires From Weightlifting

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The 2017 World Champion from Egypt Mohammed Ehab announced his retirement from the sport of weightlifting yesterday on the Egyptian news site ahramonline. After five additional doping bans from Egypt were announced yesterday, including that of the Olympic bronze medalist Sara Ahmed, Ehab decided to put his career to an end. Here’s why: On the …

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Kianoush Rostami and Saeid Alihosseini Out of the Olympics

Rostami and Alihosseini OUT of Olympic Contention

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Kianoush Rostami (IRI), the 2016 Olympic champion and world record holder of the -85 kg weight class, and Saeid Alihosseini (IRI), the 2017 world silver medalist in the +105 category, are out of the running for Olympic qualification. The new qualification system requires athletes to compete and total at least once during each of the …

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