Tag: Sport: Weightlifting
These Are (Some of) the Best Fitness Content Creators to Follow in 2024
The days of getting your fitness advice exclusively from magazines (or, worse yet, your high school gym coach) are dead and gone. Social media certainly comes with its own perils, but one of the best things about Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok is that there’s probably a creator or health coach out there who gets you — if you know…
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Karlos Nasar (89KG) Sets 176KG Junior World Record Snatch at 2024 European Weightlifting Championships
He’s done it again … again. On Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024, Bulgarian weightlifter Karlos Nasar set his latest record — a 176-kilogram (388-pound) Junior world record snatch during the Men’s 89-kilogram session at the 2024 European Weightlifting Championships (EWC). This year’s EWC, which runs from Feb. 12 to 20 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is one the very last chances…
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Weightlifter Mart Seim “Had To” Squat 400 Kilograms To Compete Against Drug Users
Athletes will utilize whatever competitive advantage they can to excel in their sport. This is as true in badminton as it is in basketball and goes doubly for strength sports like weightlifting. That said, athletes don’t always do things by the book. in sports like Olympic lifting, the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) has created everything but a…
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The Beginner’s Guide to Olympic Weightlifting
How does the saying go? “The best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago; the second best time is today.” That adage refers to personal investments of any kind — including starting a new hobby or picking up a sport you’ve never tried before. You might have seen your favorite CrossFit athlete throwing a heavy bar…
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Hampton Morris Sets 3 American Records at 2024 European Weightlifting Championships
Hampton Morris made a great start for Team USA at the 2024 European Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, an Olympic qualifying competition. Morris broke all three American national records in the 61-kilogram class — five kilograms more than his previous best total in qualifying for Paris 2024 — with the following lifts: 2024 European Championships Results — Hampton Morris,…
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Why Can’t North Korea Compete in Weightlifting at the 2024 Olympic Games?
“This is the first time that all of our athletes have won gold,” says Song Nam Jang, head coach of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK or PRK) weightlifting team in an interview provided to BarBend. “We trained more and harder, and we made many world records.” Jang is referring to the DPRK’s performance at the recent…
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2024 European Weightlifting Championships Full Results
It’s getting down to the wire now. The 2024 European Weightlifting Championships (EWC) run in Sofia, Bulgaria from Feb. 12 to 20. This year’s EWC will not only host many of the best weightlifters in Europe — as well as distinguished guests from Team USA — but also represents one of the final opportunities to secure a spot…
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North Korean World Records (and Chris Bumstead is BACK) — Strength Weekly 2/9
Strength Weekly is bringing you all the news from around the barbell game. This week, we’re covering: Here’s the run of show! 00:00 Intro01:19 Run of Show04:00 Does China not have these classes on lock?07:52 Haley Adams is BACK13:21 Amanda Lawrence with a RIDICULOUS squat16:52 Chris Bumstead returns to training Follow David Thomas Tao and Phil Blechman on Instagram.
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Song Kuk Hyang (71KG) Sets 154KG Clean & Jerk World Record at 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships
At this point, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) might need to just chuck out the record book altogether. The 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships (AWC) run from Feb. 3 to 10 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. On Feb. 7, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (PRK) 71-kilogram athlete Song Kuk Hyang set a 154-kilogram (339.5-pound) clean & jerk world record. Not only…
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Rahmat Erwin Abdullah (73KG) Lifts 204KG World Record Clean & Jerk at 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships
At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, weightlifter Rahmat Erwin Abdullah of Indonesia surprised everyone when he snuck himself into bronze medal position from the “B” Group. Prior to that moment, no one had really heard of him. Flash forward to 2024, and Abdullah has established himself as the best middleweight Olympic lifter in the world. At the 2024…
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