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Bill Stellios
Basilios "Bill" Stellios (born 16 April 1959) is an Australian former Olympic weightlifting, weightlifter. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1959 births Living people Australian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Australia Weightlifters at the 1980 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1984 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Weightlifters at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Weightlifters at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Weightlifters at the 1986 Commonwealth Games 20th-century Australian sportsmen 21st-century Australian sportsmen Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games {{Australia-weightlifting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Weightlifting
Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift the heaviest weights. Athletes compete in two specific ways of lifting the barbell overhead: these are the snatch and the clean and jerk. The ''snatch'' is a wide-grip lift, in which the weighted barbell is lifted overhead in one motion. The ''clean and jerk'' is a combination lift, in which the weight is first taken from the ground to the front of the shoulders (the clean), and then from the shoulders to overhead (the jerk). The clean and press, wherein a clean was followed by an overhead press, was formerly also a competition lift, but was discontinued due to difficulties in judging proper form. Each weightlifter gets three attempts at both the snatch and the clean and jerk, with the snatch attempts being done first. An athlete's sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
