Interview

2023

Olympic Lifting vs Powerlifting

Last week Solfrid Koanda became the second time in her sport career European champion (Yerevan, Armenian) in the 87 weight class. She won three GOLD medals and set personal best in Snatch - 117 kg, Clean & Jerk - 155 kg, and total - 272 kg.

Right after the medal ceremony at the Europeans we had a chance to ask her impressions about this performance.

Olympic Lifting vs Powerlifting

Giulia Miserendino is promising Italian weightlifter. Last week in Yerevan, at the European Championships 2023, in the 71 kg w/c Giulia won a silver in total. In the snatch she got a silver medal with 105 kg, and in the C&J she won a bronze with 125 kg. The next day we had a chance to ask her few questions.

Olympic Lifting vs Powerlifting

Mirko Zanni is a famous Italian weightlifter. Last week he competed at the Europeans in Yerevan (Armenia) in the 73 kg weight class and took a BRONZE in total (155+180) and also GOLD in Snatch. We had a chance to talk with him the next day after his impressive performance.


2022


Monika Marach is a young (18 y.o.) and very cute Polish weightlifter. Last year she won the European Youth championship in the 64 weight class and also she is the current U-17 World Vice-Champion. This spring she had a very successful debut at the senior European Championship in Albania in the 71 weight category.



Mariia has been competing on the international level as a member of the Ukrainian national team since 2016. She has already collected many youth and junior medals from world and European championships.


Anastasia Gotfrid was born in Snizhne, Ukraine in a sport family. Sergiy Romanov, her father, was also a weightlifter and her personal coach, and her mother Antonina is a gymnast.


This article also available as audio. Check this out! Subscribe and listen it anywhere: Angel Rusev is a Bulgarian weightlifter. He competed at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championship in the 55 kg weight class.


This article also available as audio. Check this out! Subscribe and listen it anywhere: Today, Iryna Dekha is the most titled active Ukrainian Olympic weightlifter. Only one female weightlifter has more rewards than Iryna – the world and Olympic champion (Athens, 2004) Nataliia Skakun.


This article also available as audio. Check this out! Subscribe and listen it anywhere: We have known each other for years. We first met in 2017 at the fitness exhibition IHRSA in Orlando where we arranged a symbolic battle at the ELEIKO location.


This article also available as audio. Check this out! Subscribe and listen it anywhere: The 96 kg weight class Olympic champion of Tokyo 2021, the clean & jerk hotshot, always 100% positive and all curly – Fares Ibrahim Saed Hassouna El-Bakh.


This article also available as audio. Check this out! Subscribe and listen it anywhere: Nowadays, the Georgian national weightlifting team is one of the strongest men’s teams in the world. The sportsmen's level is frankly impressive.


Meredith Alwine is an American weightlifter who brilliantly won the 2021 World Championship, which took place in the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent. By her 23 years old, she already has a solid experience of performing at international competitions and a decent collection of various medals.


Alina Marushchak is the first absolute world champion in weightlifting in Ukraine. At the World Championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she competed in the 81 kg weight category and won all 3 gold medals: in the Snatch, Clean and Jerk, and total.


Boady Santavy is one of the brightest representatives from North America. He's been consistently in the TOP-6 strongest athletes at 96 kg weight category and demonstrates cool competitive performance on the platform with no less spectacular training lifts shown off his IG account over 3 years!

2021


At the training camp before the World Championship at the training base in Kamenets-Podolsk, a pleasant surprise awaited me - a friendly meeting with Ruslan Nurudinov. It's very flattering when top athletes from other countries are preparing for starts in Ukrainian training centers.


Finally, the long-awaited European Championship took place, which was postponed for a whole year due to the pandemic. For athletes, this was a difficult situation, since many were left not only without competitive practice, but also without the opportunity to train, had to look for chances to compete online, and some weightlifters even ended their professional careers.


We talked with Anton Pliesnoi a month before the European Championship 2021. Let me remind you that for this period, Anton's collection already has bronze medals from the World and European Championships, as well as gold from the U23 European Championships and the World Cup.


O.T. Tell us about yourself and how did you get into weightlifting? E.B. I was doing weightlifting, I was a professional athlete at the national level of Kazakhstan. And I started coaching early (in 2003), as I really liked this sport.


2020


In any sport there are important individuals who are worthy of the TOP prefix thanks to their achievements, charisma and, of course, hard work. Today, such an outstanding athlete will share her thoughts: a five-time world champion, eight-time European champion, world record holder, Olympic silver medalist (2012)


Last weekend can be called historic for weightlifting without exaggeration. At the National Georgian Championship Lasha Talakhadze showed a fantastic result in snatch - 222 kg. According to Seb Ostrowicz from Weightlifting House, Talakhadze took four snatch attempts

Olympic Lifting vs Powerlifting

Biography00on the IWF says that you decided to become a weightlifter after you saw the performance of the Italian athlete Jennifer Lombardo. How old were you and why did it affect you then?

Olympic Lifting vs Powerlifting

Born in Cuba, now nationalized Chilean, world champion in 85 kg 2017. Pan American and South American champion. Gold in Snatch at the 2018 World Cup. How and when did weightlifting appear in your life?


2019

Olympic Lifting vs Powerlifting

Ritvars Suharevs has been a favorite of weightlifting fans for years. By his 20s, he managed to take a decent set of medals at international competitions: European Youth Championships – 3 golds European Junior Championships – 1 gold

Olympic Lifting vs Powerlifting

A native of Ukraine Anton Plesnoi is a member of the Georgian national weightlifting team. At the last World Championship, which was held in September in Thailand, Anton became the world champion in the snatch and won the bronze medal in total

Olympic Lifting vs Powerlifting

Katherine Nye rapidly broke into the world weightlifting elite, winning a silver medal at the Junior World Championship in 2018. After that, in 2019, she has won in the new weight category of 71 kg in the Pan-American Championship


2018


I saw Rebeka for the first time on All Things Gym Instagram picture. This picture stood out among others and stuck into my head like an embodiment of an ideal movement: strength, proper technique, beauty and grace - all in one.

2017


The goal of the Guardian Athlete interview series is the provide unique insights from experts within and outside of the tactical community. Our hope is to establish a body of knowledge that can be used by athletes and enthusiasts everywhere. 


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