Iran Men's Weightlifting National Team @Rio

[pres80]

WORLD RECORD SNATCH!!!

[Camran khan]

SHIR BEHDAD!!!! Lmao the Georgian guy had the world record for like 30 seconds

[Abtin]

Recooord!!!!

[mahestan]

Javid Iran! What a beast.

[Nader25]

new record ya zarb

[Omid177]

Was it expected that salimi would do better in snatch than the Georgian?
Georgian is better at C&J, right?

[DR Strangemoosh]

Behdad beats his Fajr lift by 11kg - he did 205kg then and now got 216kg. COME ON BEHDAD

This talakhzade is great, it will just be 1kg here and there to get gold

[DR Strangemoosh]

Was it expected that salimi would do better in snatch than the Georgian?
Georgian is better at C&J, right?

Yes Salimi is better at snatch and georgian at C+J
So please don't get too excited, but his knee is looking good so who knows!

[Nokhodi]

Even the weaker lifters are really on form. This is going to go down to the wire.

[DR Strangemoosh]

Just so that people are aware of how much the knee injury has had an impact on him, he has had to change his jerk technique:
https://barbend.com/behdad-salimi-returns-competition/
"It appears Salimi has switched to a power jerk, likely in order to protect his reconstructed knee. Missed attempts at 231 kg — well below Salimi’s previous international best clean & jerks — signal he may have an uphill battle in Rio against a healthy Lasha Talakhadze and Ruslan Albegov, both of whom have hit clean & jerks over 250 in recent competitions.
That is, of course, assuming he competes."

[ehsan singapore]

Yes Salimi is better at snatch and georgian at C+J
So please don't get too excited, but his knee is looking good so who knows!

i think he will do 250,255 , he has to do 1 kg more than georgian that is all

[pres80]

His opening attempt at C&J is 245kg so lets just wait and see. Georgian opening at 240kg.

[The Farbod]

Was it expected that salimi would do better in snatch than the Georgian?
Georgian is better at C&J, right?

Before the knee injury no, Salimi has a higher career best. The problem is that since his knee injury he is nowhere near his best.

[Abtin]

[Adesor Vafaseya]

Was it expected that salimi would do better in snatch than the Georgian?
Georgian is better at C&J, right?

the snatch was so close man, just 1 kgs, and the georgian broke salimi's record first before salimi broke that guys record.
in c&j salimi's personal best was 255 kgs before injury in 2014 Asian games.
but he is injured and had changed his clean and jerk to power jerk (push) to protect his knee.
the georgian scored 251 kgs in euro championship but he is 22 and superfit.
its gonna be very close and tough! specially now that salimi is maybe using a news technique for c&j.