Aina BERDYYEVA

Athletes of the Russian national team are among the main contenders for victory in the World Championships in Ashgabat. The ORIENT correspondent spoke with the president of the Russian Weightlifting Federation, Maxim Agapitov, who came to the Turkmen capital to ...

Altyn ASHYROVA

After serious competition between fragile girls, real strongmen in Men’s 73 kg weight division joined the medal contention. It was a sports arena where real passions were arising and new records were setting! Surprisingly, the new record in the clean and jerk ...

Ayna BERDIYEVA Jeongsik Won, the weightlifter from the Republic of Korea, set a new world record in the clean and jerk in Senior Men’s 73kg. He lifted weight of 195kg in the clean and jerk at the third attempt, thus breaking a 194 kg Senior World Standard. The weightlifter sta...

At 12:09 Ashgabat time at the Olympic Complex of the Turkmen capital, at the Ashgabat 2018 IWF World Championships, completions in Men’s 73kg Group B weight category, in which Turkmen weightlifter Maksat Meredov performed, completed. The first two attempts in Snatch, the athle...

Ayna BERDIYEVA

The fourth day of the Ashgabat 2018 IWF World Championships started with competition in Men’s 81 kg Group D. Weightlifters surprised the audience with their great will to win and desire to become the best in their category. One by one, the athletes claimed all...

Altyn ASHYROVA

At the Ashgabat 2018 IWF World Championships, in addition to Senior World record in Women’s 55kg, the weightlifter from Tunisia Nouha Landoulsi set two world records in Junior Women’s 55-weight category – 97kg in Snatch and 211kg in Total of two combinations.

At 16:18 Ashgabat time in the Olympic campus of the Turkmen capital, the 2018 World Cup weightlifting competition among women in the weight category 49 kg in group “A” has come to an end. One of the competitors was the 29-year-old weightlifter from the United States, Alyssa Li...

Aina BERDYYEVA

Weightlifter from Uzbekistan Adhamdzhon Ergashev set two world records in competitions in the weight category of 61 kg. He recorded the first junior world record in the snatch, having mastered 133 kg, thereby beating the result of the Belarusian weightlifter ...

Victor Kardashov

Autumn in Ashgabat is traditionally late and it is only now, in the first days of November, that it comes into its own. Its breath is felt everywhere, except, perhaps, on the podium of the World Weightlifting Championships, where every day a serious struggle ...

The sadly remembered story of the technical error from judges almost repeated itself in the women’s 49kg bodyweight category. The only difference was in the cost of the error, as neither athlete claimed medals or records. This time, in Clean and Jerk, Vietnam’s Vuong Thi Huyen’s ...