Men’s 102 kg Dmytro Chumak (UKR) won this group comfortably, taking a five-kilo lead from the snatch and extending it to fourteen by the time the clean and jerks were done. Samvel Gasparyan (ARM), who has a bigger entry total posted, ran into trouble, only making his third snatch and ending up well back. Vadzim …
Women’s 81 kg There wasn’t a huge amount of interest in this non-Olympic category – apparently, it was shown on Belarus TV but it didn’t seem to be available anywhere else. It did give us an entertaining battle between Nina Schroth (Germany), Eleni Konstantinidi (Greece) and Anna Vanbellinghen (Belgium). Vanbellinghen won the snatch gold with …
On Saturday 13th of April, on the final day of the European Weightlifting Championships, on the final lift of the final session, we are going to watch the Georgian super-heavyweight Lasha Talakhadze approach a loaded barbell. He will lift a weight that will almost certainly give him a new all-time world record total. But what …