Ukrainian national team was successful at power lifting world championship

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This weekend in Swedish Halmstad ended World Power lifting Championship.
Ukraine was represented at the world championship by 14 athletes, including leading athletes Larysa Solovyova, Andrii Nanyev, Volodymyr Rysev, Mykola Barannyk and Serhii Bilyi, according to the press service of Sports Committee of Ukraine.

As a result, the national team of Ukraine has nine medals: five golds, two silver and two bronze medals. In team standings among men, national team became Ukraine’s first, and among women the third.

And in an absolute superiority among women Larysa Solovyova once again became the best athlete of the planet. In the weight category up to 63 kg, the legend of world powerlifting did not leave any chance for rivals. The gold in squats – 237.5 kg, 180.5 kg – in bench press (now a new world record) and 225 kg in deadlift – allowed Larysa to establish a new world record in the sum of the trophy – 643 kg.
For the third time, Andrii Nanyev became the world champion in the weight category up to 83 kg. Andrii’s result in squat was 340 kg, in bench press – 272.5 kg, in deadlift – 307.5 kg. The sum of the sports trophy is 920 kg.

In the category of up to 93 kg, Volodymyr Rysev struggled with the representative of the national team of Russia Dmytro Inzarkin until the last approach in a deadlift. And the fight ended with the champion’s title of the national team of Ukraine. The new record of Europe in squat – 390 kg, small silver in bench press – 285 kg and 350 kg in deadlift have brought Volodymyr victory on world championship and new world record in sum of a triathlon – 1025 kg.