ANAHEIM (Reuters) - Egypt and Colombia took the titles on day five of the weightlifting World Championships while Mattie Rogers was one of two medallists for the United States on Saturday. Harrison Maurus also climbed the podium for the hosts, the 17-year-old setting a youth world record of 193 kilograms in the clean and jerk on the way to third place in the men’s 77kg. Rogers became the first American woman to win a World Championships medal since Cheryl Haworth in 2005, and Maurus the first male medallist since Wes Barnett in 1997. Solis won with a 239kg total ahead of Albania's Romela Begaj (235kg), who served a two-year ban after failing a doping test at the 2014 Worlds. Mohamed Ihab, who became Egypt’s first Olympic weightlifting medallist since 1948 in Rio last year, won the men’s 77 kg class with a 361kg total ahead of Rejepbay Rejepov (352kg) of Turkmenistan and Maurus (348kg).

Source: The Star December 03, 2017 03:00 UTC