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Oceania Congress in Brisbane

The Oceania Congress was held in Brisbane, Australia on 10 July 2013. Seventeen countries were in attendance. During the Congress a Life Membership was awarded to Mr. Bruce Cameron from New Zealand. Mr. Cameron was Vice President of the Oceania Weightlifting Federation since 1980, when Dr. Tamas Ajan first established the OWF, until 1983. He then served as General Secretary of the OWF from 1983 until 1992. During the Congress the OTIP program (in its second year) was launched being a very successful development program of the OWF/ IWF, supported by the IWF and ONOC. The countries had waited with anticipation for this program which was very well

Iran and Russia: the first winners

In the huge 77kg category (29 athletes at the startline) in a very exciting and keen battle, Iran's TAGHIAN Chadegani Rasoul finally became the 2013 Universiade Champion, ahead of Uzbekistan's ALIMOV Ulugbek and the local favourite KHOMYAKOV Dmitry. The Russian Federation's Minister of Sport Mr. MUTKO Vitaly, accompanied by Mr. BURGANOV Rafis, Tatarstan's Minister of Youth, Sports and Tourism was in attendance and the guests were deeply impressed by the quality of the competitions and the venue. More success for the host country came in the Women's 69kg where multiple world champion SLIVENKO Oxana just swept the field with an overwhelming performance of 242kg and took the gold medal. In both categories, the Universiade "practice" continued and records abounded. (Photos by A.N.Mora and A.

Women 63kg + Men 69kg = 25 new records

Two exciting and successful competitions were carried out on the 3rd day of the Kazan Universiade: the Men's 69kg and the Women's 63kg. None of the Universiade records in either category remained the same as they were, after Shenzhen 2011. Moreover, the ladies set one record after the other: 19 in all. In the Men's 69kg, JIN Jiangtao (CHN) set a new record in Snatch but bombed in the Clean and Jerk. The fight continued between Iran's BEHROUZI Jaber and the young Azeri GULIYEV Firidun and ended with the latter's splendid victory. GULIYEV even attempted to break a Junior world record in Clean and Jerk - yet unsuccessfully. Among the 63kg women, the two Russian competitors were ahead in the Snatch, setting multiple records, but the Clean and Jerk turned the wheel and finally left a South Korean, KIM Sookyung and a DPR Korean PYON Yong Mi in the final battle for the medals. PYON Yong Mi eventually took the gold medal with her 233kg against KIM's

Another day of records

The second day into the competitions at Kazan 2013 Universiade was just as successful as Day 1. Already the Men's 62kg could not go by without a new Universiade record established by the champion, Farkhad Kharki (KAZ) with 171kg in the Clean and Jerk. Later on, the Women's 58kg competition produced no less than 13 Universiade records: 4 in Snatch, 3 in Clean and Jerk and 6 in Total! These were to thank to three outstanding ladies: Choe hyo Sim (PRK), Iovu Cristina (AZE) and the final winner of the category, the supreme Taiwanese lifter Kuo

Weightlifting kicked off delivering the first Universiade records

The competitions in weightifting started off in Kazan with the women's 48kg and 53kg and the men's 56kg and right away delivered the first records among all sports at this Universiade. In the women's 48kg , defending Universiade champion from Shenzhen, Xia Hongyu (CHN) broke the Snatch Universiade Record with 85kg and then again with 87kg. This happened in the presence of IWF President Dr. Tamás Aján and FISU President Mr. Claude Louis Gallien - the latter to present the first medals in weightlifting. The following competition in the men's 56kg offered no less excitement and level: again a Chinese winner, Xu Jingui set two new Universiade records: 146kg and 149kg in the Clean and Jerk. The women's 53kg celebrated a champion from Japan: Yagi

Kazan Universiade opened with breathtaking Ceremony

KAZAN – (From FISU News) Those present at the Opening Ceremony of the 27th Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia, will not disagree … it was a breathtakingly awesome opening. The sold-out stadium was overwhelmed with the visual magic the host conjured on the 360° projection screen (2,400 m²) in the middle of the Kazan Arena and carried by four supporting 60m-high arches, weighing each more than 500 tons. (From A.N.M.) Technology was combined with art to produce a marvellous spectacle. Within a tribute to science, astronauts sent their greetings from space to the athletes. A parade of participants from 164 countries (the Russian delegation's flag carried by weightlifter Dmitry Khomyakov!) was followed by the official opening performed - at the request of FISU President Mr. Claude-Louis Gallien - by President of the Russian Federation Mr. Vladimir