New world record in Snatch! 214 Kg!
and holy shiet that russian was big!
So does this mean no US men in the Olympics? UK?
I`m still not clear on how the qualifying works.
This explains it a bit better:
[quote]debraD wrote:
So does this mean no US men in the Olympics? UK?
I`m still not clear on how the qualifying works.[/quote]
[quote]debraD wrote:
This explains it a bit better:
http://www.takanoathletics.com/blog/?p=1798
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That article doesn’t do a terrible job explaining it, but the long and short of it (at least as far as the USA and Canada are concerned) is that both nations will likely qualify one male slot through Pan-Ams (seeing as we didn’t do well enough in the world championships to qualify any slots there, and top 7 nations at Pan-Ams next year qualify 1 slot each). That means, in all likelihood, there will be one Canadian male weightlifter and one American male weightlifter in London (which lifter to be determined by the Canadian/American weightlifting federations, respectively). For those of you rooting for Pat Mendes, this means he has to be the top American weightlifter and selected by USAW to go to London. With Chad Vaughn and Kendrick Farris, that is no easy task. Also, the individual qualification slots, where slots for particular athletes are given based on their world ranking, will likely not apply since those slots are only given to athletes whose nations have not qualified any slots through the world or continental championships. I feel like Broz has mentioned the individual qualification slots before so I thought I’d bring it up.
On a brighter note, both Canada and the US qualified slots for their women’s teams through the worlds (Canada earned 3 slots while the US earned 2).
On a more related topic, Salimi is one scary, scary dude, although I can’t say I’m surprised by the results there.
On the other hand, who the hell is this Zhou Lulu who came out of nowhere to set a world record total and win the superheavyweight women??? Or have I just been too fixated on Kashirina lately to notice other lifters in that weight class . . .
In 2009 Lu Xiaojun came out of nowhere to set 2 world records. Everything is possible with chinese weightlifters 
Thanks for the explanation!
On Salami’s snatch in the video, he lifted the bar off the platform once and put it down just before his lift. I thought that was illegal?
Its legal as long as the bar does not go above the knee.
Ah. Thanks 
[quote]TheJonty wrote:
On a more related topic, Salimi is one scary, scary dude, although I can’t say I’m surprised by the results there.
On the other hand, who the hell is this Zhou Lulu who came out of nowhere to set a world record total and win the superheavyweight women??? Or have I just been too fixated on Kashirina lately to notice other lifters in that weight class . . .[/quote]
for women, the chinese national records all surpase the WR, the National games are a bigger priority to them then the worlds
[quote]debraD wrote:
Thanks for the explanation!
On Salami’s snatch in the video, he lifted the bar off the platform once and put it down just before his lift. I thought that was illegal?[/quote]
yeah it’s legal. I’m just wondering why he started doing it, because he didn’t before… I guess it’s just to get a feel for the weight since his strength will not fatigue him when he actually lifts the weight. god what a beast.
Guy is an animal!
56 - good cop, Chinese crushed it
62 - Chinese just eabout edged it, did not dominate, but did enough to win
69 - Chinese dominated 1st and 3rd, 2 new guys very impressive, both 20
77 - Chinese crushed it, 1st and 2nd, 3 WR attempts on teh CJ! CRAZY! Lu Xiaojun is one of my favorite lifters, monster skills, just so solid and strong, 4/6, if he hadn’t missed his 2nd Sn he’d probably have gone for a WR? Nailed the squat jerks, strong, Su Daijin was very impressive this time around, apprently bombed his last 2 comps, looked strong on the Squat Jerks, stronger then Lu Xiaojun. Didn’t Clean 211, but I think he’d have gotten the Squat Jerk if he had stood up with it.
Korean guy went kamikaze as per usual, really impressive, unlucky on the Jerk! Super strong on the Clean, not quite up there with his Sn, Armenian dude couldn’t live with the Chinese on the CJ phase, was up there on the Sn.
85 - Chinese let down, bombed on the Jerks, didn’t look very strong at all, struggled on the Cleans, lost all 3 Jerks behind, rest of the class did okay, only marginally better then the 77s!
94 - Illya was a BEAST, love watching the guy, such a way with his lifting, not elegant, just very fast and gets the down done, very powerful, very deep positions, Artem couldn’t stay on the CJ with Illya. Very workman like but less rough than Akkaev
105 - man what a russian battle! CRAZY! Klokov Vs Akkaev! Really cool battle, both 6/6. If I was Klokov 2kg behind I’d have gone heavier on the last CJ attempt. I think 2nd was guranteed at this point so why not push Akkaev to miss? You already have 2nd place?!
105+ all about Salimi, hugely impressive on the Sn, best of group on the CJ, bottled it on the 260…Korean guy was really impressive as well! They must have ranked well!
China, Russia, Iran were the top 3 Nations in that order.
Really fun to watch. Gutted Armnau wasn’t in the 105 battling with Klokov and Akkaev!
Koing
[quote]Koing wrote:
105+ all about Salimi, hugely impressive on the Sn, best of group on the CJ, bottled it on the 260…Korean guy was really impressive as well! They must have ranked well!
Koing[/quote]
haha, that’s a bit harsh, I doubt he “bottled” it, although I know where you’re coming from. It was a bit of an anticlimax as I’d have liked to at least have seen him get under the bar and attempt the jerk. That said, I don’t think he’d have made the jerk anyway cos they weren’t looking that rock solid with the lesser weights…well, as much as 250kg can ever be held overhead and not be rock solid. I think Rezazedah c&j record will be safe for a couple of years at least
[quote]debraD wrote:
Fear the Power Gut.
[quote]Weighty1 wrote:
[quote]Koing wrote:
105+ all about Salimi, hugely impressive on the Sn, best of group on the CJ, bottled it on the 260…Korean guy was really impressive as well! They must have ranked well!
Koing[/quote]
haha, that’s a bit harsh, I doubt he “bottled” it, although I know where you’re coming from. It was a bit of an anticlimax as I’d have liked to at least have seen him get under the bar and attempt the jerk. That said, I don’t think he’d have made the jerk anyway cos they weren’t looking that rock solid with the lesser weights…well, as much as 250kg can ever be held overhead and not be rock solid. I think Rezazedah c&j record will be safe for a couple of years at least[/quote]
It’s not harsh mate. It’s a fact 
but yeah it’s different. If you pulled it you mentally lost it and in my mind and most people that is bottling it. Every single lifter I know has bottled it at some point or another…eventually!
I think if he thought about the lift himself, at one point he doubted himself on it and pulled it instead. A mate said someone yelled something, which I can remember hearing it and said it would have caused him to break his concentration. Maybe true but he didn’t get it.
It’ll be interesting to see if anyone an CJ 260+!
Seems like you have to be a complete freak show to hit 260+! Let alone the guys that can hit 240-250!
I don’t know man…his Jerks aren’t pretty but it gets the job done…maybe he’d have gotten the 260? Hard to say but I’d like to think he would have gotten it
Koing
level of weightlifting around the planet is at alltime high, weightlifting is now a really competitive sport, Thailand, Uzbekistan, not very traditional countries in weightlifting, had very good lifters in their roster, even France has a potential medallist in the olympics, Benjamin Hennequin.
[quote]hatesmiles wrote:
level of weightlifting around the planet is at alltime high, weightlifting is now a really competitive sport, Thailand, Uzbekistan, not very traditional countries in weightlifting, had very good lifters in their roster, even France has a potential medallist in the olympics, Benjamin Hennequin.[/quote]
It’s good to see
Koing
This isn’t new but I just saw it =)