Beijing 2008 Olympics

Germany has a great new hero in Matthias Steiner. Matthias won the super heavyweight with a 203kg in Snatch and 258kg in Clean and Jerk in a stunning come from behind victory. The favorite, Russia’s Vgeny Chigishev won the Silver with a 460kg total and Viktors Scerbatihs of Latvia won bronze with 448kg.

The Austrian native dedicated the victory to his wife Susann, who passed-away in a car accident last year.

Matthias Steiner (Photo Credit: Bild)

Matthias Steiner (Photo credit: Xinhua)

Super Heavyweights on the Podium (Photo credit: Xinhua)

Matthias Steiner  (Photo credit: Yang Lei / Xinhua)

Matthias Steiner (Photo credit: Yang Lei/Xinhua)

Janos Baranyai a native of Oroszlany, competing in weightlifting 77kg class suffers a elbow dislocation while attempting 148kg during the Snatch lift. A brutally tough end to his first Olympics - good luck in your rehab and hopefully you’ll be back for the next Games.

Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranya (Photo Credit: Getty Images)

Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranya (Photo Credit: Getty Images)

Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranya (Photo Credit: Getty Images)

Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranya (Photo Credit: Getty Images)

China’s Zhang Xiangxiang won gold with 319kg in the Men’s 62 kilogram class in Olympic Weightlifting, with Diego Salazar of Colombia taking the silver and Indonesia’s Triyatno winning the bronze.

Medalists on the podium (Photo credit: Getty Images)

Zhang Xiangxiang (Photo credit: Getty Images)

Zhang Xiangxiang  (Photo credit: Getty Images)

Zhang Xiangxiang and the new craze in weightlifting circles (Photo credit: Getty Images)

The first gold for host-nation when to Chen Xiexia. Chen won the Women’s 48 kilogram Weightlifting competition with a new Olympic Record total score of 212kg, over four fold her body-weight.

Sibel Ozkan of Turkey won the silver medal with 199kg while Chen Wei-Ling of Chinese Taipei will take home a bronze with 196kg

Complete Results
Gold Chen Xiexia, China 212, Olympic Record
Silver   Sibel Ozkan, Turkey 199
Bronze Chen Wei-Ling, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) 196
4 Im Jyounghwa, South Korea 196
5 Pensiri Laosirikul, Thailand 195
6 Hiromi Miyake, Japan 185
7 Melanie Noel, France 177
8 Misaki Oshiro, Japan 172
9 Marzena Karpinska, Poland 171
10 Marilou Dozois-Prevost, Canada 166
11 Karla Moreno, Nicaragua 150
N/A Genny Caterina Pagliaro, Italy DNF
N/A Nurcan Taylan, Turkey DNF
N/A Pramsiri Bunphithak, Thailand DNF

China’s Chen XieXia hoists gold. (Photo credit: Getty)