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Ivana Petrova (left) and Nadezhda Mei-Nguyen
Bulgaria won gold and silver on the first day of the European Men’s and Women’s Weightlifting Championships in Moscow today.
For the lighter ladies, in cat. 45kg Nadezhda Mei-Nguyen took the title with a 155kg fight. The representative of the strong Ruse school with coaches Krastina and Radoslav Atanasovi made three successful attempts to throw with 67, 70 and 72 kg, which won the move. Then in the lizard he could not lift 83 kg, then he corrected himself and when he appeared for the last time on the podium he asked for 85 kg, which also failed, but still secured the gold in the category. Nadezhda Mei-Nguyen is the 15-year-old European runner-up at the 2016 Polish Championship.
The Bulgarian victory in the lighter today in Moscow was complemented by our other representative. Ivana Petrova finished with silver after picking up 152 kg. At 67 kg she was fourth in the throw, but at 85 kg she won the push, which secured her silver in the final classification. Petrova is from the school in Targovishte with coach Ivan Paskalev and is the European Women’s Runner-up Batumi 2019 in cat 45 kg, in addition to twice winning gold at the Pristina 2017 and Milan 2018 Women’s European Championships.
In today’s second category, up to 49 kg for women, we had no competitor, and tomorrow on the podium in Moscow will be three of ours: European runner-up Angel Rusev (55 kg), Maya Ivanova (55 kg) and gold medalist continental in youth Stilyan Grozdev (61 kg)).
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