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Diary of a Weightlifter • 2022 World Championships

By Thorin Gault am happy to say that I am writing classes and for that reason many of the junior and senior clean and jerk
I this article in a bathing suit sitting the top lifters in the world are in the records in the men’s -89kg (196lb)
by the beach in Mexico. process of either moving up or down class with a phenomenal lift of
a weight class. While challenging for 220kg (484lb). One of my favourite
With my inability to travel to the
the lifters, it creates some fantasy lifters, Loredana Toma of Romania,
World Masters (thirty-five years and
older) Championship this year in matchups for hardcore weightlifting broke the women’s -71kg (156lb)
fans. class snatch record with a successful
Orlando, Florida, my attention shifted
to being a FAN of weightlifting and Canada continued to demonstrate 119kg (262lb) attempt.
following the World Senior (all ages) progress on the international scene The best drama was saved for last
Championship being held in Bogota, with seventeen lifters representing when the men’s superheavyweight
Colombia, from Dec. 5-16. the country. 64kg, 2021 Olympic class (109kg+) went down to the
champion Maude Charron dropped wire for the first time in a long
This year’s World Championship
was particularly interesting because to the -59kg class and finished with time. The strongest man of all time
it marked the start of the Olympic the silver medal in the snatch with – Lasha Talakhadze of the Republic
103kg and bronze overall with a 231
qualifying period for the Paris 2024 of Georgia – who is the world record
games. The International Olympic total. holder in all lifts and perennial
Committee (IOC) reduced the Canada’s top male lifter, Boady winner, was pushed to the limit. He
number of weight classes available Santavy of Sarnia was notably needed his final attempts in both the
from the typical ten each for men missing from the field as he recovers snatch, and clean and jerk, to secure
and women to five each prior to the from an injury and prepares for Paris victory with a 215kg snatch, and
2021 games. For 2024, the classes in 2024. 251kg clean and jerk – both far lower
flipped to the previously excluded than his best due to recovery from an
Some significant world records
were broken at this year’s injury.
championship. Li Fabin of China set I would like to take this
the record in the clean and jerk in the opportunity to wish all readers a
men’s -61kg(134lbs) class with a lift happy new year full of strength and
of 175kg (385lb). Eighteen year old power – however you define that in
Karlos Nasar of Bulgaria broke both your own lives!
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