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Last competition day crowned 2 Chinese champions

Men’s 85kg

Awaiting for a Chinese fight between LU and ZHONG, we got it between YUFKIN Alexey (RUS) and the Silver Medallist at the London 2012 Olympic Games LU Haojie (CHN).

LU had only 1 successful attempt in the Snatch with 165kg missing the next two at 170kg and 173kg, but still took the lead. In the Clean and Jerk, he went up to 200, and won with a 3kg advantage over YUFKIN.

The European Champion in 2009 and 2011 Russian attempted the 204kg Clean and Jerk, but wasn’t successful. His Total of 362kg got him the Silver Medal.

LINDER Semen (KAZ) came up third with 351kg. World Champion in 2014 ZHONG Guoshun (CHN) ended 5th with 350kg missing twice the Snatch and the Clean and Jerk.

Women’s 69kg

9 consecutive good lifts with each lifters coming after themselves – they didn’t competed against each other. First attempt of the Chinese lifter ZHANG coming out last at 113kg and after 2 no lifts finally managed to control the weight.

The Clean and Jerk competition followed the same scheme, however we’ve seen some more missed attempts. The Kazakh lifter failed to lift 115kg, while the Egyptian AHMED couldn’t lift the weight of 135kg.

With no international records registered, ZHANG Wangli (CHN) jumped from a first successful attempt at 135kg to 145kg then to 150kg – all good lifts.

The last bodyweight category at the 2015 IWF Grand Prix Fuzhou, China ended with the victory of the Chinese lifter ZHANG for her Total of 263kg.

The 2013 and 2015 Youth World Champion and 2014 Youth Olympic Champion AHMED Sara Samir Elsayed Mohamed (EGY) came up second with 5 successful attempts and a Total of 235kg.

Third place was awarded to SADYKOVA Assem (KAZ).