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Iran ranks third in West Asia Weightlifting Champs

The event was held in three categories of youths, juniors and seniors adults in Manama.

Iranian athletes received nine medals in youth category and 8 gold, three silver and one bronze medals in the adult category.

Some 181 athletes from Bahrain, Jordan, Gaza, Palestine, Yemen, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq and Syria participated in the event.

Weightlifting is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic program in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.

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