Competition Reports

Andrew Charniga www.sportivnypress.com The 2021 Junior World Championships were staged in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from 05-23 – 05 -31, 2021 with all appropriate protocols suited to the current pandemic conditions. All in all, considering the current circumstances and the fact that the two strongest teams China and North Korea were absent; there were some impressive results …

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The 2021 Asian weightlifting championships were held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan under reasonable pandemic protocols to ensure the safety of all. Even though a lot of world records were exceeded at this competition the world records have been ‘watered’ down so much starting in 2018 that calculations have to be made in terms of mass lifted …

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Andrew Charniga www.sportivnypress.com Figures 1 & 2: Record lifts do not necessarily fit neatly into some linear playbook. Widely accepted conceptions of balance and mechanical efficiency applied to the human body with 206 bones and 600+ muscles can be meaningless without taking into account redundancy; large and excess degrees of freedom of movement.   There …

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2019 World Championships Part II Andrew Charniga The Men 55 kg OM Yun Chol (PRK) 294 (535%); Son Igor (KAZ) 266 (484%); Al Saleem Mansaour (KSA) 265 (482%) Asterisk or no, Om results in this class were highlight of the entire competition.  Al Saleem Mansaour (KSA) pulled 118 high; but it was all pull as …

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2019 World Weightlifting Chps. Andrew Charniga The 2019 WWC were held on the Olympic training center stadium in the resort city of Pattaya; with competition and training hall located in close proximity in the same building. An excellent set up but without any Thai lifters there was less than no audience; if that is possible. …

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