Asian Weightlifting Federation

Fr om Athens to Beijing Olympic;

The Asian have improved 37 World Senior Records

Due to the current statistics of formal competitions between the Athens Olympic and Beijing Olympic , 49 World Senior records in women's section and 6 World Senior Records in Men's section have been improved that the Asian's share was 37. In other words , in the women's categories, the Chinese lifters 29 times , the Thais 5 times , and The Koreans 2 times have set new records and in the men's categories a Chinese named Zhang jie in 62kg succeeded to improve the overall movements in this weight. Meanwhile Yang Lian and Chen Yanqing the lifters of 48kg.. And 58 kg. With 5 new records have been placed on top of the record setters of the world. It's remarkable that in men's section and from 2004 up to now, just 5 world records have been improved that 3 of them by Belarus lifter named Andrei Rybakov in 85 kg. , one of them by a Polish lifter named Marcin Dolega in 105 kg. and the last one by Zhang Jie a Chinese lifter have been occurred.

28/07/2008