The lightweight ladies lifted today at the World Sub-junior, Junior and Masters World Championships in Romania. We had all the weight classes up to and including 57kg with the juniors and sub-juniors lifting alongside each other.
The 43kg juniors jockeyed for position with Oksana Kozmenchuk of
Ukraine ahead at sub-total but losing out in the end to big deadlifter, Dariia
Holovko.
Mariia Polianksa was alone in the 47kg sub-junior class but she
did not take it easy! She attempted sub-junior world records in every lift and
was successful on squat (160.5kg) and deadlift (150kg) giving her a sub-junior
world record total of 385.5kg. Unfortunately, her attempt at a bench world
record of 90.5kg wasn’t quite there on the day.
Zuzanna Kula absolutely dominated the junior 47kg class,
extending her own junior world record in squat to 188kg. Two attempts at 111kg
on bench however, couldn’t quite seal the deal. The bench record was set by
Zuzanna herself only a few weeks ago at the European Championships so it was a
big ask to extend it further at this competition.
Valeriia Yavorska of Ukraine and Anzhelika Oboturova of Russia
were closely matched throughout the competition with Valeriia attempting to
pull for the World Title but just falling short. Further down the class, a last
minute 10kg deadlift PB from Poland’s Wiktoria Cichocka pipped Denisa Turokova
of Czechia to the 3rd spot on the podium. Nailbiting stuff!
Similarly the 57kg sub-juniors went down to the wire with front
runner Veronika Bordiuh of Ukraine losing out on bodyweight to Adrianna
Borowczyk who pulled 157.5kg to snatch the world title.
These young lifters were a joy to watch and delivered edge of
the seat viewing. If you didn’t catch it, watch it back here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr25GjJNkAY&t=1s&ab
23rd August 2021
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