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Mona Pretorius
Mona Pretorius (born 12 August 1988) is a South African Olympic weightlifting, weightlifter. She competed in the Weightlifting at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's 63 kg, women's 63 kg event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the bronze medal. She currently has her own Olympic Weightlifting coaching business which can be found on Lift Big Eat Big. References External links * 1988 births Living people South African female weightlifters Place of birth missing (living people) Weightlifters at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for South Africa Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting Competitors at the 2019 African Games African Games competitors for South Africa 20th-century South African women 21st-century South African women Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games {{SouthAfrica-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] |
