Competition Reports 

Reports on some weightlifting competitions will be kept here for a while.  
Other reports on big competitions can also be found in the Gallery department.

10th Mémorial Edmond Decottignies – Comines (France) – 11/06/2005 

On 11th of june the yearly international tournament took place with teams from 6 countries, Belgium, France, Cameroon, Spain, Germany and Bulgaria.
Belgium became forth and I was 2nd best lifter overall with 391 sinclair (270 at 61.4kg). 
I was only preceded by Dabaya Vienceslas (395 sinclair) who finished 5th in the Olympics for Cameroon 
Cameroon also won the team competition.

Results

	The young  team from Andalusia Spain with an old man ;-)
	Sarah De Coster (-53) , best Belgian female lifter.
	Tom Goegebuer, -62 kg Best Belgian Weighlifting webmaster ;-)

17th Silver Dragon Tournament – Cardiff (Wales UK) – 8-10/10/2004

See my gallery for a report.

9th Mémorial Edmond Decottignies – Comines (France) – 26/06/2004 

 This  9^th edition could count on more than 50 male and 16 female participants from Belgium, France, Germany, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and Cameroon. 

Their teams consisting of  5 athletes (only the 4 best counted) could fight for the highest score.  The team competition was won by the German team from Frankfurt/Oder with 1320.6 sinclair points followed by the Spanish team from Andalusia with 1254.0 and the Belgian team with 1246.1

1	Germany 1 Frankfurt/Oder:	1320.68852
2	Spain 1Andalusia:	1254.02389
3	Belgian selection:	1246.08987
4	France 1 Comines Métropole:	1213.13138
5	Slovakia Hlohovec:	1167,98168

Belgian team, with Olav De Nul (86 kg, 95+120), Daniel Dubois (72.5 kg, 105+125), Luc Lammens (80.1, 110+137.5), Ferrari J-P ( 61.55 kg, 90+112.5) and me taking the picture.

Both the male and female individual rankings were topped by Cameroon’s representents for the 2004 Olympics  Venceslas Dabaya and Madeleine Yamechi . You can find the individual results on the IWA -Eleiko site

Dabaya Vencesla rehearsing for the Olympics(72.4 kg, 140+180) :

 

The men’s individual competition was clearly won by Venceslas Dabaya from Cameroon with 408.75 sinclair points. Second was German Michael Bohm (11^th  on the recent Junior world championships) with 374.6 sinclair. Third was Swiss Nemeshazy Janos 371,0 points. Belgian Tom Goegebuer was 4^th with 365 sinclair points and 5^th German Horn René (12^th on the recent Junior world championships) with 359 points.    

 

	Spanish Abigail (59 kg) cleaning 110 kg
	and   Tom Goegebuer (-62 kg) snatching 115 kg.

Cameronese Madeleine Yamechi excelled in the female field with 255.13 sinclair points. Abigail Guerrero from Spain took the second place with 226.9 points followed by German Dana Willems with 174.9 points.  

Image sequence of Madeleine Yamechi (73.1, 100+135):

 

29/06/2004: Belgian Championships 

I was the best lifter of the competition. With a low bodyweight of 59.8 kg I made a total of 260 kg (117.5+142.5), corresponding to 381 sinclair points.
A satisfying result given that I had been attending a fatiguing congress of radioprotection in Madrid (Spain) all week.
Second best lifter was Dubois Daniel with 303.95 points followed closely by Luc Lammens.

The best junior lifter was De Nul Olav with 266 sinclair and best Youth lifter (-16 year) was Willems Gert Jan with 261 sinclair. 

Best female lifter was the junior Sarah De Coster with 153 female sinclair.  

Best results men (open) per category:
 

		b.w.	Club	Snatch	Jerk	Total	sinclair
-62kg
Goegebuer Tom	Senior	59,6	K.O. Gent	117,5	142,5	260	381,38
Ferrari Jean -Paul	Senior	59,0	La Louviere	80,0	110,0	190,0	280,95
-69kg

Willems Gert -Jan

Youth

62,6

Zaventem

80,0

105,0

185,0

261,29

-77kg
Dubois Daniel	Senior	71,0	La Louviere	105,0	130,0	235,0	303,95
Vereecken Randall	Senior	73,2	Merelbeke	87,5	112,5	200,0	253,71
-85kg
Lammens Luc	Senior	79,0	K.O. Gent	110,0	140,0	250,0	303,15
-94kg

De Nul Olav

Junior

86,0

K.O. Gent

105,0

125,0

230,0

266,72

+ 105kg
Roth Raphael	Senior	118,2	La Louviere	110,0	132,5	242,5	250,65

Best results women (open) per category:

		b.w.	Club	Snatch	Jerk	total	sinclair
– 53kg
De Coster Sarah	Junior	51,6	Zaventem	50,0	67,5	117,5	153,49
-63kg
Maes Kris	Senior	60,6	Zaventem	42,5	60,0	102,5	121,33
Neys Frederique	Youth	58,2	Zaventem	32,5	45,0	77,5	93,84
-75kg
De Wolf Katlheen	Senior	88,0	Zaventem	42,5	67,5	110,0	113,00

 

National Records
		Class	Snatch	Jerk	Total
Neys Frederique	women Youth	- 63kg		47,5
De Wolf Katlheen	women +35	+ 75kg		67,5
Remy Roger	Master +50	- 77kg	82,5	117,5	200,0

Pictures

Best junior  Olav De Nul, trying to establish Belgian junior record of 135.5 jerk. and Luc Lammens failing to stabilize 145 kg jerk, national record:

 

	Tom Goegebuer with first snatch from 112.5 kg
	Symbolizing the title of strongest athlete of the field and showing my sponsors :-) (However I admit that I look a little tiny to be impress convincingly :-)

	Girl Power !  Maes Kris, De Coster Sarah, Neys Frederique, and De Wolf Kathleen.
	In spite of the warnings I got in my early life stage not to let me get carried away by women.....

 

20/12/2003:  International tournament "1st Grand Prix Hamm - Luxemburg"

After many competitions in November and December I didn't start fully motivated.
 
The ranking was on sinclair points and the first price was 250 euro but the second (or third) didn't receive anything so I think it was the reason that there were not too many high international level lifters. 
Nobody knows for sure what to lift  to become first and  a second place only gives you a medal. 
In my opinion they would have had a much better response when the first three would receive something.
 
Immediately after weigh-in it was clear that the battle for the first price was between me and Polish Oleksinksi lifting for a  German team. 
Oleksinski had the enormous advantage that he was the heavier lifter so he knew exactly what to lift to win.

I weighed 61.6 kg and did very easy snatches with 112.5 and 117.5 so I took 122.5 for the last attempt.
Just when I wanted to take off, somebody shouted to the head referee that the weight on the scoreboard was wrong. Off course it broke my concentration and I started my pull too much on the toes. I caught the weight very easy, so easy that I'm sure I can snatch 125 again, but it was a little in front. I managed to come up and extend my legs completely but in the end I had to drop it.
I felt they "stole" my third attempt by shouting and I knew it was a crucial weight. 

Oleksinksi weighing 98.5 kg snatched 152.5 and indeed passed me with a few points.

In the jerk I lifted 142.5 kg in second attempt. As I didn't know what I needed to win I asked for 147.5 kg.
Easy clean but my energy level proved to be too low to come out of the squat even though it was pretty close. 

Oleksinski knew what he had to lift, jerked the 190 kg and beat me with 374 to 371 sinclair.
So the 122.5 snatch proved to be very crucial. 
   
Results:

Men

1	Oleksinski Alexander	98,55	KSV Langen	152,5	190,0	342,5	374,28
2	Goegebuer Tom	61,60	K.O. Gent	117,5	142,5	260,0	371,72
3	Akulov Victor	73,85	KSV Langen	117,5	145,0	262,5	331,18
4	Schiller Thomas	87,25	TV Eichen	125,0	157,5	282,5	325,31
5	Pawlow Andreas	103,95	TV Eichen	135,0	162,5	297,5	318,94
6	Grauberger Friedrich	76,30	Wemmetweiler	110,0	140,0	250,0	309,27
7	Lammens Luc	79,25	KO Gent	110,0	143,0*	252,5	306,24
8	Wegel Eric	89,20	KSV Langen	120,0	140,0	260,0	296,30
9	Rodriques Filipe	70,25	Nuedorf	100,0	127,5	227,5	296,29
10	Dubois Daniel	70,90	La Louviere	102,5	125,0	227,5	294,51

* Belgian Record -85 kg

Women: 

Gombler Christina	52,95	Hostenbach	60,0	77,5	137,5	174,79
De Coster Sarah	52,65	Zaventem	47,5	67,5	115,0	146,73

 

Sarah De Coster with Caruso and Reinfrank who were giving a demonstration.

Luc Lammens with 143 kg jerk

Tom Goegebuer with 147.5 kg clean