It was a bit disapponting not to see Nadezda Evstyukhina lifting. I have no indormation why she didn't participate but let's hope that she isn't injured. She would be needed in world champs to compete against likes of Cao Lei.
Alla Vazhenina - silver medalis in Beijing - was absent too. Although I don't know do Kazakhs participate here or in Asian championships.
Anyway the script for gold was clear from start to finish. It was all about the Russian, once again. This is really tough division there, because if all the lifters would have been able to participate here, Russian would probably have taken all the medals.
Natalia Zabolotnaya clearly followed her lifting plan and all of her lifts looked easy - if the competition would have been harder, she would most likely have done more.
The lovely Lidia Valentin was really good at snatch making her new record but the competition wasn't over yet. In clean and jerk she managed to do only one good lift and she lost her second position. Real shame, I wonder what went wrong.
Place Lot Name Born Nat B.W. Snatch Jerk Total Points
1. 88 NATALIA ZABOLOTNAYA 15/08/1985 RUS 73.8 120 145 265 28
2. 8 HRIPSIME KHURSHUDYAN 27/07/1987 ARM 74.41 116 137 253 25
3. 77 LIDIA VALENTIN 10/02/1985 ESP 74.35 120 132 252 23
4. 4 NADIYA MYRONYUK 25/03/1984 UKR 73.89 108 130 238 22
5. 168 YULIYA NOVAKOVICH 06/05/1989 BLR 74.33 111 118 229 21
6. 81 RUMIANA PETKOVA 15/10/1982 BUL 73.6 102 120 222 20
7. 59 GULSAH BAYDAR 14/09/1984 TUR 74.45 101 118 219 19
8. 15 DESISLAVA BOZHILOVA 12/01/1986 BUL 73.83 92 108 200 18
9. 138 RAQUEL ALONSO 30/12/1988 ESP 74.82 87 111 198 17
10. 244 ANNIKA BERNTSSON 10/09/1976 SWE 70.81 85 105 190 16
11. 117 EFTYCHIA ANANIADOU 10/07/1987 GRE 74.34 83 100 183 15
A bit off-topic but just crossed my mind, how Alla Vazhenina has unorthodox bodytype for olympic lifter; she is quite tall to be 75 kg lifter - 175 cm - and she seems to have long limbed bodytype. Usually this category lifter are about 160-168 cm tall. Interesting anecdote that she was Russian citizen, but often failed to attend Russian national team, so she changed to Kazakstan and took silver in olympics.
