Philippe Saint-Cyr 85!
Philippe Saint-Cyr of Canada, Honorary Life Vice President of the IWF and Member of the Weightlifting Hall of Fame celebrates his 85th birthday today. Happy birthday, Philippe!
Tokyo Governor receives IWF President
Upon his return from a long Asian tour including the Asian Junior and Youth Championships and AWF Congress in Tokyo and the ANOC General Assembly in Doha, Qatar, IWF President Dr. Tamás Aján reported on numerous meetings and useful discussions with the decision makers and leaders of the continent. Among others, the IWF President met and held a joint press conference with Madam Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo, former President of the Japan Weightlifting Association. Issues of the sport and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were on the agenda of their discussions.
Korean duel winds up University Worlds in Mexico
The +105kg contest culminated in a rivalry for the champion title between the two Koreans in the category. Eventually, Lee Jaesang managed to work off his 15kg disadvantage from the snatch and beat his compatriot Hwang Wooman with an impressive 221kg jerk totalling 386kg on the latter's 385kg and won. The remaining medals were picked up by Slovakia's Radoslav Tatarcik and Poland's Przemyslaw Budek. As for the teams, Mexico was the best in both genders; USA was the runner-up for both men and women. Congratulations to all winners and participants, thank you, Merida and
Mongolia hits gold and Merida marks another historic “last”
In the women's 75kg Mongolia's only entry Ankhtsetseg Munkhjantsan confidently collected the 3 gold medals despite an elbow injury on her last jerk. Mexican Aremi Fuentes kept the silvers at home, while Canadian Kristel Ngarlem added 3 bronzes to her team's rich medal collection. The podium of the women's +75kg in Merida will go down in history as the very last one at a World Championship, as after 1st January 2017 it will be replaced by two new categories of 90 and +90kg. Tania G. Mascorro won this significant gold for the host Mexico flanked by USA silver medallist Marissa Klingseis and bronze medallist other Mexican Gladis
Tada to win using the bodyweight advantage
In what is probably the last major competition under the "old" rule giving advantage to lighter bodyweight, Yoshihiro Tada JPN beat local favourite Oscar D. Verdugo Ramirez, gold medalist in snatch, with the same total of 349kg in the 105kg at the University Worlds. Evan Graybill, USA picked up the
It’s Korea again in 94kg
Thanks to Park Hanwong Korea continued to overpower the field in 94kg. With just two valid lifts he collected all the three gold medals, leaving TPE lifters Chen Sheng-Ying and Tien Wei-Te in the runner-up and third positions,
