After a day resting, the sixth day of weightlifting competitions of 2008 Beijing Olympic followed by holding in two categories of women's 75kg. And men's 85kg. on Friday 15 th of August . In the women's 75kg. Category CAO Lei from China _the 24years-old is a new star in this weight class. The winner of 2006 & 2007 the World Championships, as well as 2007 & 2008 the Asian Championships _ became champion with 282kg. in total. She lifted 128 kg. in Snatch and 154 kg. in Clean & Jerk .At the same time she improved the Olympic records for 4 times in Snatch and Clean & Jerk and in total. After the Chinese weightlifter VAZHENINA Alla the other Asian lifter from Kazakhstan with 266kg. In total owned the silver medal. She haltered 119 kg. in Snatch and 147 kg. In Clean & Jerk. A Russian weightlifter with 264kg. stood on the third place .
In men's 85kg. Category LU Yong from China achieved a big success and in the presence of RYBAKOU Andrei the Belarusian world champion became champion with 394 kg. in total. He lifted 280 kg. In Snatch and 214 in Clean & Jerk. The Belarusian lifter could halter 394 kg. In total but he has just 280gr. more weight in comparison with the first one and owned silver medal. The Armenian lifter too could lift 280kg. but because of having less weight than a Kazakh weightlifter gained the bronze medal.
In this weight, the record of Olympic for two times and the total World record for once were broken by RYBAKOU. Up to the end of the sixth day of the competitions, the Asian have obtained 11 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 5 bronze medals which 8 gold and one silver of medals belonged to the Chinese athletes. Meantime, the champions of all weights were from Asia up to the end of the sixth day.
15/08/2008
