Today in 2008 Beijing Olympic and in the women's weightlifting competitions in 69kg. category a marvelous event happened and Liu Chunhong from China as the first in attendance weightlifter of the competitions ,could increase the senior world record in the mentioned weight. She improved 5 kilos in Snatch , 1 kilo in Clean & Jerk an 10 kilos in total in the women's 69kg. category. The former records of this category belonged to the Russian athletes. In fact Liu chunhong improved the Olympic record for 5 times and the Senior World record for 5 times in order to be titled as the brilliant figure of the Competitions. The other noticeable point is that the former Olympic records of women's 69kg. had been registered by this athlete in 2004 Athens Olympic . Liu chunhong lifted 128kg. in Snatch , 158 kg. in Clean & Jerk and 286 kg. in total. After Liu chunhong , the Russian lifter the former record holder of the world stood on the second stand with 31kg. less than the Chinese ( 255kg. ) and Ukrainian became the third.
But in men's 77kg. category , the competitions were so excited and close together that champion was not known up to the end of the competition . At last it was SA Jaehyouk from South Korea that by glittering in Clean & Jerk he could became a champion with 366kg.in total . He lifted 163kg. in Snatch , 203 kg. in Clean & Jerk and because of having less weight than his Chinese rival achieved the gold medal . After him LI Hongli from China with 366 kg. totally became the second . The Chinese lifter could lift 168kg. in Snatch , 198 kg. in Clean & Jerk . The third athlete was from Armenia could raise 360 kg. in total and got the bronze medal.
13/08/2008
