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Mohamed Eshtiwi
Mohamed Eshtiwi (born 2 August 1985) is a weightlifter from Libya. He won the gold medal at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in the Men's Middleweight (– 77 kg) division, and carried the flag for Libya at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates .... References 1985 births Living people Libyan male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters for Libya {{Libya-weightlifting-bio-stub Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Libya Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting 20th-century Libyan people 21st-century Libyan people ... [...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] |
