One of the interesting points of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Weightlifting Competitions which were followed up on Wednesday August 13, 2008 is, awarding all of the gold medals to the Asians in the end of the nine weights of holding competitions up to now. (5 weights of the women & 4 weights of the men) In fact the Chinese 6 gold medals, the North Korean woman lifter in 63kg. Category one gold medal and the Thai woman lifter in 53 kg. Category one gold medal and the South Korean man lifter in 77 kg. Category one gold medal has obtained. The other continents' lifters have been deprived from gaining gold medals up to the end of the fifth day of the competitions.
In the meantime from the 27 distributed medals, The Asians gained 18 medals involved 9 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze ones. This is considered as an extra-ordinary for the Asian Weightlifting. By the way, it seems the super star of these competitions is Liu chunhong the Chinese woman lifter in 69kg. Category that improved the records of the world in her own weight for 16kg. totally ( Snatch , Clean & Jerk and Overall) and by gaining the Championships of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games , could improve the former Olympic record for 5 times and the world former record for 5 times as well.
13/08/2008
