2014 IWF World Championships in Almaty: Day 1
10:40, 9 November 2014
ALMATY. KAZINFORM Om Yun Chol had to do what only four other weightlifters have ever legally done - lift more than three times his own bodyweight - to win his latest title.
In the first medal event of the 2014 IWF World Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan - the men's 56kg - Om was not at his best until his last lift. He failed with his first attempts in the snatch (124kg) and the clean-and-jerk (162kg), the IWF's official website reads. Thach who grabbed silver was disappointed to lose so narrowly, but delighted with his records and full of praise for the victory . Long Qingquan, the 2008 Olympic champion, also failed with his last two clean-and-jerks at 163kg, winning a bronze medal. Kazakhstan's Arli Chontei took the sixth place lifting total 274 kg.