Lonndon 2012 Weightlifting Athlete Profiles

Brush up on your weightlifting trivia!
Check out the Athletes’ Bios of the weightlifters taking part in London 2012.
Provides you with all sorts of information. Like when and why they picked up the sport, what kind of injuries they suffered, superstitions, hobbies etc…
Didn’t know that Hysen Plulaku, for example, “suffered serious head injuries which required surgery after being involved in a car crash in 2010″.
Or that Lu Xiaojun “began in athletics as a sprinter and did not begin weightlifting until he was 18 years old”. Woot?
Ilya Ilin lists break dancing as one of his hobbies.
Post your findings in the comments.


London 2012

It's the only thing I have liked watching in Olympics since a kid. I hope they show plenty on free to air,
Remember Dean Lukin.

Grippy said:

It's the only thing I have liked watching in Olympics since a kid. I hope they show plenty on free to air,
Remember Dean Lukin.

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Lukin won the medal the year all the USSR states boycotted? Top effort to win a gold but reality is he wouldn't have stood a chance if it weren't for politics knocking out half the field.

Was an impressive weightlifter considering he never trained full time even in the leadup to the olympics he was still out on a fishing boat every day.

So what's everyone's opinion on this young Chinese swimmer on something or just genuinely talwnted?

The Men’s 69kg of the London 2012 Olympics

BBC Recordings: will behere

What a session. 5 DNF, 40 missed snatches.
Lots of Mid Shin Pulls.

Qingfeng Lin is a beast & won the snatch with 157kg. 5kg advantage over Razvan Constantin Martin, 7kg over Mete Binay going into the Clean & Jerk.



Triyatno Triyatno won the Clean & Jerk with 188kg.


Qingfeng Lin took gold with a 11kg lead in the total. He even took an attempt at the World Record with 198kg on the bar.

Enjoying the weightlifting but geez isnt the womens weightlifting is a freak show.

The Men’s 69kg B Group of the London 2012 Olympics



BBC Recordings: will be here


Junior Sanchez takes the Snatch with 148kg.


Kim Myong Hyok won the Clean & Jerk with 184kg



Gareth Evans set a new WR (Welsh Record) with 158kg in the Cean & Jerk.

The Women’s 63kg of the London 2012 Olympics

BBC Recordings: here

Svetlana Tsarukaeva wins the Snatch with 112kg. 5kg below her own WR. pausing in the bottom position for what seemed like for ever



She didn’t let her missed 2nd (111kg) get to her and goes into the Clean & Jerk with a 2kg lead over Maiya Maneza.


Maiya Maneza opened with an OR Clean & Jerk. Missed 2 World Record attempts at 144kg on the 2nd and 3rd attempts