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TALAKHADZE Lasha took it all

The Olympic and multiple World Champion, Georgian title defender, TALAKHADZE Lasha won the +109kg bodyweight category competition with a fantastic performance at the last day of the 2019 IWF World Championships. TALAKHADZE gave no chance for the rest of the field and collected all the Gold Medals breaking all World Records on the way. In the Snatch, he started at 208kg, then went ahead to lift 215kg and 220kg, improving his own World Record by 2kg. In the Clean and Jerk, he secured the first place with a 247kg lift, then 255kg before he jumped up to 264kg. He easily cleaned this as well, setting an amazing World Record. This means the best of all times World Record in the superheavyweight category is now 484kg. Armenian MINASYAN Gor took home three Silver Medals (212, 248, 460). His compatriot, ALEKSANYAN Ruben clinched two of the Bronze Medals, the Clean and Jerk and Total (192, 245, 437), while Algerian BIDANI Walid (ALG) was third in the first lift with

LI holds all three World Records

Two Chinese and a Russian formed trio rivalized in the heaviest women’s bodyweight category, the +87kg, for the first place and finally, LI Wenwen (CHN) came out victorious. The Snatch World Record holder performed one kilogram under her best, 147kg, but took away both the Clean and Jerk and Total records from Russian KASHIRINA Tatiana, who earned 3 Silver Medals this time. KASHIRINA, who competed in eight World Championships is now the owner of 24 worlds medals. In the Clean and Jerk, LI finished at 186kg and improved the World Record with 1kg, to 332kg. All three Bronze Medals of this bodyweight category went tot he 2016 Olympic Champion, Chinese MENG

She went up two bodyweight categories and won

WANG Zhouyu (CHN) was Champion of the 76kg category last year, now jumped in the 87kg’s competition and won all the Gold Medals easily. Only KIM Un Ju (PRK) could keep up with her but was left 5kg behind in the Snatch by the Chinese who lifted 120kg. PEREZ REVERON Naryury Alexandra (VEN) earned the Bronze with 110kg. In the Clean and Jerk, WANG gained a further 4kg advantage and clinched this Gold with 158kg. KIM managed 154kg and Bronze Medallist SALAZAR ARCE Tamara Yajaira (ECU) performed 144kg. The same trio stood on the podium for their Total results: WANG (278kg), KIM (269kg), SALAZAR

MARTIROSYAN defended his title

Defending champion Armenian MARTIROSYAN Simon won all three Gold Medals in the men's 109kg bodyweight category. He triumphed in the Clean and Jerk and Total effortlessly but had a hard fight for the Snatch first place. First in the Snatch, this year’s Asian Champion and 2018 World Championships Silver Medallist, Chinese YANG Zhe set a World Record with 197kg. Right after him, 2008 Olympic Champion ARAMNAU Andrei (BLR) broke the record with 198kg. MARTIROSYAN had the final word, who raised the bar to 199kg. In the Clean and Jerk, the Armenian secured the Gold Medal with his first lift (230kg), then came out for a World Record attempt at 241kg, but this proved too much for him, and the World Record remained 240kg, held by himself. The Silver Medal in this lift went to Uzbek DJURAEV Akbar with 229kg. The 19-year-old lifter, Junior World Champion this year broke his own World Records five times on the way. ARAMNAU clinched the Clean and Jerk Bronze with 228kg and the Total order was the same as in the

Two Silvers added up to a Gold for TSIKHANSOU

Cutting ahead of the medal favorites, South-Korean JIN Yunseong won the Snatch with 397kg in the men’s 102kg category this Wednesday at the World Championships in Thailand but clinched the overall Gold from Belorus TSIKHANSOU Yauheni, European Champion this year in 96kg category. In the Snatch, the Belorus lifter was 1kg behind JIN and GASPARYAN Samvel (ARM) finished at the third place with 178kg. The competition was close in the Clean and Jerk, Iranian DEHDAR Reeza managed to lift 219kg, one kilogram more than Silver Medallist in both lifts TSIKHANSOU and 2kg more than 2019 European Champion CHUMAK Dymitro (UKR). JIN, missing his last attempt at 219kg ended up in the fourth place in the second lift, but he earned Total Silver Medal (397kg), only one kilogram behind his Belorus competitor. DEEHDAR stepped on the third podium with a Total of

Dethroning in women’s 81kg

The multiple Olympic and World Champion VALENTIN PEREZ Lidia could not defend her title in the women’s 81kg at the World Championships in Pattaya, where she was defeated by Columbian SOLIS ARBOLEDA Leidy Yessenia, not only in the first lift but in Total as well. In the Snatch, they were both left behind by the rest of the field, VALENTIN was fifth with 108kg and SOLIS was ninth with 105kg. The Gold Medal of the Snatch went to the winner of the B group, LEE Jieun (KOR) for lifting 111kg, booking a good lift before her compatriot KIM Suhyeon, who performed the same as her and Mongolian MUNKHJANTSAN Ankhtsetseg. In the Clean and Jerk, KIM bombed out, LEE was tenth and MUNKHJANTSAN was ninth, so they could not step on the podiums. SOLIS secured the Gold Medal with her third lift, ARTHUR Jenny Lyvette (USA) won the Silver with 139kg and VALENTIN grasped the Bronze with 138kg. The final ranking of the Total shows how tight this competition was, with only 5kg difference between the first and fifth place. SOLIS clinched the World Champion title with 247kg, followed by VALENTIN (246kg) and ARTHUR (245kg). Belarus NAUMAVA Darya only missed the podium with a notch with 244kg and with 242kg, Venezuelan CHIRINOS LEON Dayana Aracelis was