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Thanks for the updates Maitolasi. Makes up in part for not being able to watch the telecast directly.

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Yes, a debt of gratitude is owed to Maitolasi! 8) 😉

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Before 69 kilo category I thought the scrpt would be clear: Oxana Slivenko would take the gold and the rest would compete against eachothers. After snatch it looked like this. The Russian made three succesfull lifts with the confidence of former world record owner, but something changed in the clean and jerk; at first 136 kg lift faltering and fail at 140 kg. Lifts looked very wobbly and it looked at the moment that she might lose her grip to gold medal, but with the experience of multichampion she was able to pull it together and performed her best lift in high pressure.

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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.

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I missed the heavyweights, but anyhow, here's a name to remember: Tatiana Kasirina
18-year-old, Junior champion, Junior world record holder and now European champion too.

Place Lot Name Born Nat B.W. Snatch Jerk Total Points
1. 239 TATIANA KASHIRINA 24/01/1991 RUS 88.72 125 155 280 28
2. 231 NATALIA GAGARINA 10/09/1983 RUS 103.38 110 143 253 25
3. 91 YULIYA DOVHAL 02/06/1983 UKR 90.62 111 141 252 23
4. 111 UMMAHAN GURCAV 01/01/1986 TUR 91.16 107 137 244 22
5. 167 KATHLEEN SCHOPPE 16/12/1982 GER 92.05 102 131 233 21
6. 163 SULE SAHBAZ 27/01/1987 TUR 89.06 108 120 228 20
7. 36 VIKTORIA MAVRIDOU 08/07/1991 GRE 105.89 108 120 228 19
8. 147 SABINA BAGINSKA 19/10/1985 POL 98.14 100 125 225 18
9. 202 ANNAROSA CAMPALDINI 09/07/1985 ITA 94.61 92 120 212 17
10. 35 ANDREEA AANEI 18/11/1993 ROU 101.81 91 106 197 16
11. 60 KRISZTINA MAGAT 02/03/1989 HUN 101.03 90 103 193 15
12. 101 MERCEDES ARCHANCO 07/02/1992 ESP 83.1 80 100 180 14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ovhjH1LclU

Well, that was it. Shame I couldn't import more visual material, but I guess this is better than nothing.

This year World champis will be as late as 17.11.2009-29.11.2009.

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I don't pretend to know many, if any, of the lifters you are writing about, Maitolasi, but your dedication to recording the details is to be applauded.

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I don't pretend to know many, if any, of the lifters you are writing about, Maitolasi, but your dedication to recording the details is to be applauded.

Well that's my point exactly here; trying to bring up something in which all are not so familiar with.

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Tatiana Kashirina's lifts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyVPT7vyNP0&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cal0k6-YieU&feature=channel

Jailbait Boyanka Kostova   

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Thanks for the info, mos coverage i have seen since The Olympics.

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Thanks for the info, mos coverage i have seen since The Olympics.

Thanks. Not so popular sport. Let's see what I can dig out when the Asian championships start at 09.05.

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