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Video Find: When the Clean and Press was King

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Footage of the clean and press being con­tested at the Empire State Invi­ta­tional. Date unknown. Uploaded by YouTube user cnclifter. Thanks for this trea­sure of a clip!

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Len Bacino Demon­strates the Snatch

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Step-​​by-​​step pho­tos and video of assis­tant coach and mas­ters lifter Len Bacino snatch­ing 105 kg.
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Video: LBH Lifter Tom Hughes Places First at 2011 Pan Amer­i­can Masters

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Long-​​​​time LBH lifter Tom Hughes keeps his win­ning streak alive by plac­ing first in his class (60–64 age group/​​105kg) at this year’s Pan Amer­i­can Mas­ters. Here’s video of his win­ning clean and jerk at 94 kg: Age group: 60–64     …
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Video: LBH Lifter Tom Hughes Places First at 2011 National Masters

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Long-​​​​time LBH lifter Tom Hughes placed first in his class (60–64 age group/​​94kg) at this year’s Nation­als Mas­ters. Good job, Tom! Here’s video of his win­ning clean and jerk at 93 kg: Age group: 60–64     Class: 94kg     Born: …
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Video Clip: His­tory of Weightlifting

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Nice mini-​​​​history of weightlift­ing that LBH lifter Dan Boland found on YouTube.

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LBH lifter Javier Garza at the 2010 Mets

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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“The 2010 Met­ro­pol­i­tan Cham­pi­onships held in Rego Park, NY was my sec­ond weightlift­ing meet. Com­ing in to the meet, I was look­ing to improve on my 284 kg total from a month ear­lier that gave me the min­i­mum qual­i­fy­ing total for the Amer­i­can Open[…]”
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Video from the Amer­i­can Mas­ters, Savan­nah, GA, Novem­ber 6–7

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Let us know if you have video from the Amer­i­can Mas­ters that you’d like us to post. We’ll col­lect the clips on this page.
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2010 Worlds, Women 48 kg, on YouTube

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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YouTube user binoko­ron has a great chan­nel full of Olympic weightlift­ing videos. Among them is a 6-​​​​part series of the com­plete women’s 48 kg com­pe­ti­tion from the 2010 Worlds. Note that the clips are not in Eng­lish. The first clip …
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Two Stars Named David

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Salvatore A. Avendanio
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This is the story of two young Olympic weightlift­ing enthu­si­asts. Both were born dur­ing the Cold War; both were named David. They came from oppo­site sides of the polit­i­cal plat­form. One grew up as a farm boy in the for­mer Soviet Union; one grew up as the only son of wealthy par­ents in NYC USA. (By guest author Sal­vador A. Aven­danio)
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