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World Games Complete
Submitted by Staff on July 26, 2009 - 10:55am.
(updated 7/26)
The World Games Powerlifting competition has wrapped up from Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei. The competition was held on Saturday and Sunday.
The meet's best lifters were Poland's Jaroslaw Olech and Chinese Taipei's Wei Ling Chen. With their performances, each will move into the top three in the World Power Rankings.
The host country's Wei Ling Chen (105) captured the women's Lightweight division. Chen set new IPF World Records in the squat and deadlift. Her squat of 457 pounds surpassed Russian Olesia Lafina's 441 mark. Her deadlift of 429 pounds upped her own record of 407 pounds. Chen registered a 1,091 pound total.
Chen was followed by Japan's Yukako Fukushima and Indonesia's Sri Hartani on the podium.
American Suzie Hartwig-Gary took seventh. Finland's Mervi Sirkiae was ninth.
Yi Ju Chou (114), from Chinese Taipei, set a new World Record by deadlifting 446 pounds. She broke the mark of 435 pounds held by American Diana Rowell since 1984.
In the Middleweight division, Indonesian Sari Noviana grabbed the gold medal. Noviana outbattled Ukrainians Tetyana Prymenchuk and Zhanna Ivanova.
Australian Jeanette Gevers came in ninth. The sixth ranked lifter on the World Power Rankings, German Gundula Fiona v Bachhaus, bombed from the competition.
Ukrainian Larysa Solovyova (148) racked up a 1,295 pound total to win the Heavyweight division. Italian Antonietta Orsini placed second. Priscilla Ribic won the bronze medal. Ribic (165) posted a 1,212 pound total.
Disa Hatfield (165) earned a fifth place finish, totaling 1,135 pounds. Canadian Junior phenom, Rhea Fowler (165), placed sixth and benched a Junior IPF World Record of 336 pounds.
In the Superheavyweight class, the Ukraine's Irina Karpova outdueled American Jessica O'Donnell for gold. Karpova (181) totalled 1,410 to O'Donnell's (shw) meet high of 1,521 pounds. Less than seven Wilks points separated the two. O'Donnell's total ties the USAPL American Record of Liz Willett. Chinese Taipei's Ya Wen Chang was the bronze medal winner, barely edging out American Liane Blyn. Blyn (181) totaled 1,284 pounds.
Norway's Hille Heidi Arnesen was fifth. She was followed by two lifters from the Netherlands, Brenda v.d.Meulen and Joanne Schaefer-Williams.
In the women's team race, the Ukraine was victorious. Host country Chinese Taipei was 11 points back in second. Team USA won the bronze medal.
In men's Lightweight action, the hometown competitor won once again. Tsung Ting Hsieh snatched the gold medal from Ukrainian Arkadiy Shalokha and Frenchman Hassan El Belghitti.
In the Middleweight division, Poland's Jaroslaw Olech (165) won the gold medal. Olech totaled a new IPF World Record of 1,951 pounds. Olech also squatted a new IPF World Record of 799 pounds. Both former records were held by Olech (1,945 and 793 pounds).
Olech was followed by Ukrainian Andriy Naniev and fellow countryman Jan Wegiera. Wegeira (181) bench pressed a new IPF World Record of 584 pounds, upping his own mark by five pounds.
Wade Hooper (181) came in fifth place with a 1,939 pound total. Hooper squatted 815 pounds and bench pressed and deadlifted 562 pounds. The bench press was a new USAPL American Record for Hooper. American Eriek Nickson (165) was eighth, recording a 1,563 pound total. Canada's Tom Kean was ninth.
Ukrainian Sergiy Pevnev (220) captured the Heavyweight division with a 2,204 pound total. Poland's Jacek Wiak and Luxembourg's Anibal Coimbra rounded out the podium.
Americans David Ricks (198), Nick Tylutki (220), and Jeremy Hartman (220) were fifth, sixth, and seventh; totaling 1,912, 1,962, and 1,918 pounds, respectively.
Australian Richard Hozjan bombed out of the competition.
In Superheavyweight competition, American Mike Tuchscherer defeated Ukrainian rivals Oleksandr Shepel and Valeriy Karpov to win the gold medal. Tuchscherer (275) registered a meet high 2,331 pound total. That matches his USAPL American Record. He squatted 903 pounds, benched 600, and deadlifted 826 pounds for the win.
Brad Gillingham (shw) placed fourth for the American team, with a 2,281 pound total. Norwegian Tor Herman Omland followed Gillingham in fifth. Finland's Jari Martikainen was seventh.
The Ukraine won the men's competition with 47 points. The U.S. team won silver with 40 points. Poland completed the podium with 36 points. South Africa was thirteenth and Canada was fifteenth.
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