Finnish Team Final, Pori 12.12.2009
The best lifters of the Finnish team final: Anna Everi,22, Puntti-Karhut, Pori and Milko Tokola, 17, Rovaniemen Reipas. Finnish Team
Sroka and Muziński best in the Memorial
Krzysztof Beck (1930-1996) participated in the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, where he took 5-th place in category 77 kg. Multiple champion of Poland was associated with club "Zawisza". The memorial tournament to remember Col. Krzysztof Beck is organized since 2000. This year the best athletes of the tournament were Sroka and
Sroka and Muziński best in the Memorial
Krzysztof Beck (1930-1996) participated in the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, where he took 5-th place in category 77 kg. Multiple champion of Poland was associated with club "Zawisza". The memorial tournament to remember Col. Krzysztof Beck is organized since 2000. This year the best athletes of the tournament were Sroka and
Champions' Gala in Chelm
As emphasized by President of the Polish Weightlifting Federation Zygmunt Wąsiela Champions Gala in Chelm was a great promotion of weightlifting. Six women and ten men in different weight categories competed, among them the world champion Marcin Dolega, Georgian Kosabijew Arsen and Olympic silver medalist from Beijing, a Frenchman Vencelas Dabaya. The combination of weightlifters of artistic performances and meetings with prominent athletes from other disciplines, including swimmer Otylia Jedrzejczak, is a very good promotion of our sport - Zygmunt Smalcerz said. According to the opinion of the Munich Olympic champion Zygmunt Smalcerz the weightlifting in Poland draws a great future. - We have many promising young lifters such as Daniel Dolega, the youngest of the family. If he will be well coached, he can reach the highest successes. Also Adrian Zielinski, Junior World and European Championships gold medalist has a fantastic future ahead - said Zygmunt Smalcerz. Patron of the event was three times Olympic bronze medalist (1956, 1964, 1968) Marian Zielinski who was born 80 years ago, on 24 December 1929 in Chelm. He was a weightlifter in club Legia Warsaw (1953-70). Marian Zielinski was the first Pole in this discipline, stood on the Olympic podium (1956 in Melbourne). Also the first to set world record (1958), and a year later won the world champion title. After retirement he was a coach. He began painting, carved in wood, carry out work in silver jewelry. He died on 13 October 2005 in Warsaw.
Champions’ Gala in Chelm
As emphasized by President of the Polish Weightlifting Federation Zygmunt Wąsiela Champions Gala in Chelm was a great promotion of weightlifting. Six women and ten men in different weight categories competed, among them the world champion Marcin Dolega, Georgian Kosabijew Arsen and Olympic silver medalist from Beijing, a Frenchman Vencelas Dabaya. The combination of weightlifters of artistic performances and meetings with prominent athletes from other disciplines, including swimmer Otylia Jedrzejczak, is a very good promotion of our sport - Zygmunt Smalcerz said. According to the opinion of the Munich Olympic champion Zygmunt Smalcerz the weightlifting in Poland draws a great future. - We have many promising young lifters such as Daniel Dolega, the youngest of the family. If he will be well coached, he can reach the highest successes. Also Adrian Zielinski, Junior World and European Championships gold medalist has a fantastic future ahead - said Zygmunt Smalcerz. Patron of the event was three times Olympic bronze medalist (1956, 1964, 1968) Marian Zielinski who was born 80 years ago, on 24 December 1929 in Chelm. He was a weightlifter in club Legia Warsaw (1953-70). Marian Zielinski was the first Pole in this discipline, stood on the Olympic podium (1956 in Melbourne). Also the first to set world record (1958), and a year later won the world champion title. After retirement he was a coach. He began painting, carved in wood, carry out work in silver jewelry. He died on 13 October 2005 in Warsaw.
Surprise birth for Chilean weightlifter during training
A Chilean Olympic weightlifter (Poblete finished 12th in Beijing Games) unexpectedly gave birth to a baby boy while she was training in a Brazilian gym. Elizabeth Poblete, 22, called for a doctor when she felt unwell a week ago while hoisting weights in the gym in Sao Paulo, where she lives, the news website Globo.com reported. She then gave premature birth to the 1.15-kilogram (2.54-pound) baby, whom she named Eric Jose after she got over her shock. Both mother and son were taken to hospital, where the baby was being kept in intensive care. The head weight trainer in the gym, Horacio Reis, said: "It was a surprise for me. A week ago I acted as a judge in a competition in Chile and this girl was competing. All went well and she won the competition. "I could see she was a big girl, round and strong. That's all I noticed." Poblete had admitted to feeling unwell during training a week before the birth, according to reports in Brazil, but was "shocked" to find she was pregnant. The boy was born at three months premature and remains in intensive care. However, Poblete has since left the hospital after telling Brazilian television she does not have the funds to continue medical care for her and her baby. The hospital has denied it discharged the 22-year-old because she failed to pay her bill.
