2008 Lifters of the Year: Liu Chunhong and Matthias Steiner
2008 Lifters of the Year: Liu Chunhong and Matthias Steiner
At the end of 2008, World Weightlifting, the International Weightlifting Federation’s official quarterly – according to its traditions – asked the weightlifting public of the world to vote for the best weightlifters of the year.
It was the 27th Lifter of the Year election for the men, and the 18th election for the women. For the first time, online voting was available on this website.
Voting ballots were sent from all the five continents. The final ranking was produced on the basis of 456 votes. That was the absolute record so far and we want to thank all those who voted for their chosen favourites. The following scoring system was applied: a vote for 1st place: 7 points, 2nd place: 5 points, 3rd place: 4 points.
2008 was an Olympic year, so obviously the competition was among the champions of Beijing 2008.
It must be noted that over 200 invalid ballots were received for the young Junior world record holder Iranian Saied Alihosseini (probably all from Iranian sources). The Voting Supervisor Commission decided not to validate these, so the talented young superheavyweight lifter finally did not make it to the top ranks.
Among the women, Chinese Liu Chunhong proved to be the Best of 2008. Liu won her second Olympic gold medal and set up further five world records in Beijing. Among the men, Matthias Steiner from Germany, the +105kg hero received the highest number of votes.
Lifter of the Year 2008 – Men
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|
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Points |
1st place |
2nd place |
3rd place |
|
1 |
STEINER Matthias |
GER |
896 |
47 |
78 |
44 |
|
2 |
ARAMNAU Andrei |
BLR |
879 |
39 |
74 |
59 |
|
3 |
ZHANG Xiangxiang |
CHN |
859 |
41 |
76 |
50 |
|
4 |
ILIN Ilya |
KAZ |
772 |
28 |
72 |
54 |
|
5 |
LONG Qingquan |
CHN |
724 |
60 |
8 |
66 |
|
6 |
LU Yong |
CHN |
576 |
26 |
34 |
56 |
|
7 |
LIAO Hui |
CHN |
548 |
8 |
56 |
53 |
|
8 |
SA Jae-Hyouk |
KOR |
516 |
8 |
44 |
60 |
|
9 |
DABAYA Vencelas |
FRA |
79 |
2 |
9 |
5 |
|
10 |
CHIGISHEV Evgeny |
RUS |
71 |
5 |
0 |
9 |
|
11 |
RYBAKOU Andrei |
BLR |
41 |
0 |
5 |
40 |
|
12 |
GOEGEBUER Tom |
BEL |
32 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
|
13 |
KOLECKI Szymon |
POL |
14 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
|
14 |
SCERBATIHS Viktors |
LAT |
10 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
15 |
HOANG Anh Tuan |
VIE |
5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
|
HENNEQUIN Benjamin |
FRA |
5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
|
DOLEGA Marcin |
POL |
5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
|
SPIESS Jürgen |
GER |
5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
19 |
ZHANG Jie |
CHN |
4 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
VELAGIC Almir |
GER |
4 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Lifter of the Year 2008 – Women
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|
|
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Points |
1st place |
2nd place |
3rd place |
|
1 |
LIU Chunhong |
CHN |
1451 |
113 |
68 |
80 |
|
2 |
JANG Mi-Ran |
KOR |
1307 |
52 |
111 |
97 |
|
3 |
CHEN Yanqing |
CHN |
1197 |
107 |
48 |
52 |
|
4 |
CHEN Xiexia |
CHN |
914 |
60 |
54 |
56 |
|
5 |
JAROENRATTANATARAKOO P. |
THA |
872 |
43 |
83 |
39 |
|
6 |
PAK Hyon Suk |
PRK |
769 |
43 |
52 |
52 |
|
7 |
CAO Lei |
CHN |
741 |
35 |
36 |
79 |
|
8 |
ROHDE Julia |
GER |
16 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
9 |
OZKAN Sibel |
TUR |
7 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
VUKAS Silvana |
SRB |
7 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
11 |
KOROBKA Olha |
UKR |
5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
|
USMAN Mariam |
NGR |
5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
