Matthias Steiner of Germany was the Men’s +105kg Weightlifting champion. He lifted a total weight of 461kg, 203kg in Snatch and 258kg in Clean and Jerk. Vgeny Chigishev of Russia came second with 460kg and Viktors Scerbatihs of Latvia took bronze with 448kg.

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Pak Hyon-suk of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) won gold in the Women’s Weightlifting 63kg final at Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics Gymnasium (BUAA Gymnasium) on 12th August 2008 with a total of 241kg. Irina Nekrassova from Kazakhstan had silver with 240kg (1kg shy), Lu Ying-chi from Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) got the bronze with 231kg.

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Zhang Xiangxiang of China added another gold to the China’s Weightlifting golden chest by beating other opponents in Men’s 62kg category. He lifted a total of 319kg. Diego Salazar of Colombia had silver, Indonesia’s Triyatno made it to the third.

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Chen Yanqing of China defended her Women’s 58kg title with a total of 244kg, added another gold to China’s scoreboard. Marina Shainova from Russia took silver with 227kg, O Jong-ae from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) had bronze with 226kg.

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17-year-old Long Qingquan of China lifted a total of 292kg in Men’s 56kg category of Beijing Olympics Weightlifting event. Vietnam’s Hoang Anh Tuan and Eko Yuli Irawan of Indonesia took home silver and bronze respectively.

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Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon of Thailand lifted 221kg in Women’s 53kg (Weightlifting). Yoon Jinhee of South Korea came second, Nastassia Novikava of Belarus was third. The weightlifting event was held at Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics Gymnasium.

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The Women’s under 48kg was staged at BUAA Gymnasium with 14 excellent women weightlifters.

Chen Xiexia of China succeeded in 95kg Snatch and 117kg in the Clean and Jerk for a total of 212kg. She grabbed the first Olympic Gold for China and broke Olympic record. Turkey’s Sibel Ozkan came second, Chen Wei-Ling of Chinese Taipei got third.

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Iranian Hercules, Hossein Rezazadeh, will not be partcipating in the upcoming Beijing Olympics. The double gold medalist and 105+ kilogram world record holding weightlifter heeded the advice of doctors and decided to give the Olympic medal a pass.

The “Iranian Hercules” is currently the world record holder for Snatch (213kg), Clean and Jerk (263 kg) and total (472kg) in the 105+ weight class. His lifting world records surpass the records in all other weight classes, prompting many to call him “the world’s strongest man.”

When he won his first Olympic gold at the 2000 Sydney Games, Rezazadeh was also breaking a decades-long tradition of Soviet dominance in the sport.

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Nigerian weightlifters are rewarded with cold, hard cash for the effort made in African qualifying tournament (which ultimately ends up in Beijing 2008) in South Africa.

The National Sports Commission (NSC) gave $2500 (about N292,500) each gold medallists while those that won silver earned $2000 about N234,000 and $1500 (N175,500) paid to all bronze winners.

I wonder how much will they get for a Beijing Olympic gold?

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