Antonino Pizzolato sent a message to the rest of the weightlifting
world with a phenomenal world-record performance at the European
Championships in Tirana, Albania.
Antonino Pizzolato sent a message to the rest of the weightlifting
world with a phenomenal world-record performance at the European
Championships in Tirana, Albania.
Saturday, 10 April 2021
Simon Martirosyan, multiple world record holder and one of the strongest prospects for Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020, suffered a shock defeat in the men’s 109 kilograms at the European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow.
His first bomb-out since 2015 left Dmytro Chumak in first place and gave Ukraine their fourth gold medal of the week, on total, taking them above Bulgaria to the top of the medals table.
Martirosyan looked in trouble from the start in his first appearance in 14 months, missing his first two snatch attempts before making his third at 190kg.
He did not begin his clean and jerk attempts until everybody else had finished but missed all three at 227kg.