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Highlights Mirabai Chanu had won the gold at the World Championships. After the high of the Tokyo Games, India's Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu has turned her focus on winning a second world championship title and is ironing out the chinks in her armour ahead of the event.

Chanu had clinched the gold at the world championships in but since then a medal at the event has eluded her. She was unable to defend her title a year later after she decided to give the tournament a miss due to a back issue and in , she missed the bronze by a whisker.

The event was cancelled last year due to the COVID pandemic but it is slated to take place between December 7 to 17 in Tashkent and Chanu is all geared up. I will be trying my best to become a world champion a second time," the Chanu told PTI. Chanu, who holds the world record in the clean and jerk event in the 49kg category after she successfully heaved kg in the Asian Championship last year, has struggled to stay at par with her Chinese opponents in the snatch section.

This continues a trend that started some years ago. That still may not sound like much, but it has to be remembered that competitions are extremely tight. This extra margin can mean the difference between medalling and being an also-ran. That will not always be possible, since the days of one-lift specialists are over. One has to be good at both, or else they are just handicapping themselves in a tight competition.

Here is what the various sex-bodyweight categories did:. This all points to the constant need to perfect technique, especially in the snatch. The snatch is more important now, due to the change in the final placing rules. Lifters can no longer win on lighter bodyweight; they have to lift more, or at least lift the same amount, sooner. Anyone who snatched less that still wants to win will have to jerk more. That situation is psychologically more difficult for any lifter. Of special interest is the new world record kg snatch made by super heavy Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia.

Compared with his kg clean and jerk, he scores Back in the heyday of the immortal Vasily Alexeev , now a solid four decades ago, he did The snatch has moved a full This leads us to question the apparent asymmetric progress. Some can be explained by the lack of attention given to the snatch before Back then, there were three events in a weightlifting competition: the clean and press, the snatch, and the clean and jerk.

The snatch took a lot of work to produce less improvement. Since the press was eliminated, the big men can no longer rely on starting the contest with a big press. Today, you have to make do with a big snatch to start, so that lift had to be improved for anyone to stay in the running. Few doubted that he could have done more, if need be. He had the contest wrapped up with apparently conservative attempts.

While I do not have an exact height for him, he appears to be taller than many supers. No statistical differences were observed among the top-three performers for either sex for most kinematic variables, and there were no overall discernible patterns of effect size differences for individual or clusters of kinematic variables.

The results of this study indicate that weightlifting success can be achieved with a variety of technique profiles. See More See Less. Senior Pan Am Championships in Ecuador this week. Our first two athletes compete tomorrow. Go to the PanAm YouTube channel to catch them live. Raf Korkowski. That concludes our trip to Guadalajara, MEX! What an absolute blast working with this talented group of young athletes, coaching alongside Yvan Darsigny, and representing Canadian weightlifting!

A very successful trip with 10 medals in total and multiple Junior Canadian Records Broken. Thank you to yvandarsigny and rafkorkowski for coaching.