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Khalil El-Maaoui
Khalil El-Maaoui (born September 12, 1988, Marsa, Tunis, Tunisia) is a Tunisian weightlifter. He qualified for the Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 56 kg, weightlifting event at the 2008 Summer Olympics (Men's 56 kg) and did not finish, and participated in the Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 56 kg, same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics but was also unable to finish. References [...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] |
