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Full and authentic results from 2006 Santo Domingo

Full results for each of the 15 bodyweight categories (Snatch, Clean&Jerk, Total), medallists, medal tables, team classifications, records are now published in a downloadable form on this website. You can now access the complete results of the Qualification World Championships 2006 of Santo Domingo by clicking

Hosts selected for future World Championships

At its meeting held in Santo Domingo, on 28 September 2006, the IWF Executive Board selected the following hosts to organise future major events in the sport:2009 Junior World Championships ? allocated to Constantza, Romania2010 (Qualification) World Championships ? to be held in Antalya,

Reza Zadeh’s 10th World Championship gold medal

Men's +105kg: Since Saturday, 7th October 2006, Iranian giant Hossein Reza Zadeh is 10-fold world champion. Double Olympic gold-medallist and holder of all world records in the superheavy category, Reza Zadeh swept the two lifts and the total also in santo Domingo.His challengers could not force him to extreme heights, and let the Iranian win with his weakest ever total result.The surprise man of the day was 20-year old Chinese Dong Feng, who took silver medal in jerk and bronze medal in total. He also set junior world records in jerk (245kg) and in total

Dethronement in 105kg

Listing 29 competitors, the men's 105kg category featured the defending world champion, Russian Dmitry Klokov who was pushed back into third place.Poland's European Champion Marcin Dolega won, and the silver medal was taken by Dmitry Lapikov of Russia, lifting in the B group. Klokov saved two attempts in clean and jerk to capture the final victory but as he missed 227kg twice, he finally had to settle for the bronze

Korean wins over Chinese

Women's +75kg: The battle in the ladies' superheavyweight in Santo Domingo will probably be remembered for a long time. Since Doha, the defending champion Jang Mi-Ran (KOR) had become world record holder when she modified the mark from 305kg to 318kg. This time again, she was facing Mu Shuangshuang of China, runner-up to the Korean last year.Although Jang snatched 136kg, Mu was in the lead by 1 kilo. In the clean and jerk the two women fought fiercely for the gold, in which neither one made any mistakes. Using good tactics, the Korean caught up with her Chinese opponent, reaching 314kg as well, with lighter bodyweight deciding in favour of Jang. 30 competitors took part in the

Young Kazakh superstar wins again

Men`s 94kg: Just two years ago nobody had heard of a 16-year old weightlifter from Kazakhstan, Ilya Ilin. In 2005, however, he entered the ranks of top champions in the nick of a time. He first captured the junior titles in Busan then added the senior gold medals to that in Doha. He was also elected as Lifter of the Year in 2005.In the same manner did he confirm his superiority this year. Ilin won the Junior worlds in Hangzhou and defended his title in Dominica, too. In total three lifters tied at 392kg, but it did not affect Ilin`s confident victory. His first clean and jerk (217kg) already put him into first place, so he would not lose anything by attempting to break the world record (233kg). In the end, he could not make it but remained firmly in the champion`s position. There were 44 lifters in the lineups in the