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Iranian lifters rank 2nd in IWF youth games

Iranian athletes finished in second place of the 2016 Youth World Weightlifting Championships in Malaysia with 471 points.

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Iranian athletes have put up a great performance at the 2016 Youth World Weightlifting Championships in Malaysia and finished runners-up at the international sporting event.

The Iranians finished in second place with 471 points. That’s while Russian youth weightlifters won the championship title with 489 points and Poland came in third with 456.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Weightlifting Federation had dispatched a team of eight weightlifters to the event.