Asian Weightlifting Federation

The World Strongest Man , an Iranian Again ,An Asian Again

The last day of the World Senior Weightlifting Championships came to the end by being held of + 75 category (Women) and +105 kg category (Men) contests.


In the weight category of +75kg (Women) ZHOV Lulu from China who had raised the weight of 146kg in Snatch and just with one kilo difference with her Russian rival owned the silver medal , by haltering the weight of 182 kg Clean & Jerk ,not only gained the gold medal of this movement but also gained the gold medal of Total.


In the weight category of +105 kg , the men of Iranian created wonders .SALIMI KORDASIABI Behdad ,by haltering 214 kg in Snatch and 250 kg in Clean & Jerk ,with 464 kg in Total grasped the three gold medals and meantime , improved one kilo the Record of Snatch that had belonged to REZAZADEH Hossein for 8 years . In this category ANOUSHIRAVANI HAMLABAD Sajjad from I.R. Iran by haltering the weight of 198 kg in Snatch and 241 kg in Clean & Jerk owned two silver and one bronze medals .Meanwhile JEON Sang-Guen from S. Korea owned two bronze medals .


Thus at the end of the World Weightlifting Championships ,78 medals were allotted to the Asians i.e. 30 gold ,25 silver and 23 bronze .In fact 58 percent of medals in this edition of the competitions went to the Asian Men and Women that seems their performance positive .


It’s remarkable that in the Women’s squad the teams of China ,Russia and Kazakhstan became the first ,second and third respectively and in the Men’s squad ,the teams of China ,Russia and Iran gained the titles of first , second and third in team ranking .


In the Women’s squad ,the World Records were broken for 6 times and this incident took place for two times in the Men’s squad.

 

 15/11/2011