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Victory by the largest margin

In what was so far the most exciting competition of the Junior World Championships, the Chinese competitor came out victorious. In the men?s 77kg, SU Dajin ? unknown to the international stage ? preceded last year?s junior bronze medallist, Polish Mikalai CHARNIAK by the smallest one kilo margin. The bronze went to Alexei YUFKIN of Russia.The Chinese skipped the women?s 69kg category, so the two Russian girls fought their own battle. Both stood out by far from the field. The new junior world champion, Nadezdha EVSTYUKHINA (265kg) outmastered her team-mate by 9 kilos, but Oxana SLIVENKO herself (257kg) registered an unbelievably large margin over the bronze medal winner, Tetyana ZHUKOVA of Ukraine. Thereby the difference between the winner and the third place winner was

Surprises and new medal winners in China

In the women?s 58kg class, GU Wei, the defender of the world title and holder of all the world records, surprised enormously capturing only third place in total ? despite the familiar environment in Hangzhou, China. She fell 36kg behind her own record. Two women outclassed her: Svetlana TSARUKAEVA (RUS) and PEREZ Mercedes (COL), lifting 231kg and 208kg, respectively, in contrast of GU?s mere 285kg.In the next category, 63kg, the Russians continued to excel. Marina SHAINOVA, former world champion, pocketed all the three gold medals.  The men?s 62kg awarded a new world champion: HU Ting of the host nation. The victory did not fall into his lap: HU Ting won the snatch, but the clean and jerk gold went to Sergei PETROSIAN (RUS). The Chinese finally won in total, as PETROSIAN was unable to catch up with his 6kg advantage.In the showdown of the 69kg for men two countries captured their first medals in Junior World Championships: Erkand QERIMAJ of Albania won gold in the jerk, while Ricardo FLORES of Ecuador took silver. In the end, however, Chinese ZHONG Guoshun of China got the total

Junior World Champion wins over the Senior World Champion

After three competitions at the 2006 Junior World Championships in Hangzhou, China, Europe has only two medals, thanks to Genny PAGLIARO, Italy, in the women?s 48kg.As expected, Asian competitors dominate. In the men?s 56kg, Chinese LI Zheng performed a great bravura: taking the junior world title with a total five kilos higher than the senior world champion last year in Doha. He signs also the first junior world record: 131kg in snatch.In the 53kg for women, the young hopeful of Dominican Republic ? host of this year?s senior world championships ? Yuderqui CONTRERAS pocketed silver and bronze medals. To no little surprise, the Chinese competitor in this category, ZUO Mengxia was pushed into third place, while the gold medal was captured by the latest prodigy of Thailand: Suda

Juniors open World challenge in China

The 2006 Junior World Championships were launched today in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, China. 103 female and 118 male competitors up to the age of 20 years representing 44 countries are expected to perform in the next 7 days on the platform of the magnificent Sports Center in an event that is generally considered as a ?test? for the Olympic Games. The lineup includes two senior world champion title holders: GU Wei (CHN) and ILIN Ilya

Korean world champion sets women’s superheavy world records

Last year's world champion and Olympic Games silver medallist JANG Mi-Ran of Korea set two new world records in the +75kg category at the International Friendship Weightlifting Tournament recently held in Wonju, Korea. JANG improved the Snatch record to 138kg, but - more importantly - she brought up the so far best total for the women from 305 kg to 318 kg - by as much as 13 kilos at

IWF Software for National competitions!

We are very pleased to announce that, on the commission and with the co-ordination of the IWF, a Competition Management Software has been produced, that is especially developed to carry out National Weightlifting Championships and competitions with the help of computer technology.One of the unique services of the programme is that it can be used not only in English but basically in any language of the world.Using this Software will not only assure the standardization of weightlifting?s competition managements but also an operation in full accordance with the IWF rules and regulations.The operation of the Attempt Board and Scoreboard can easily and simply be provided with plasma TV and projector, which can be controlled by drivers built in the Software. The Competition Management Software can be purchased at the IWF Secretariat at US$2,000 ? the price includes upgrades following rules-modifications. Address any further questions to Attila Adamfi, IWF Competition Director (E-mail: [email protected]  Fax: +36 1