Olympic Weightlifter Breaks Arm (Video)
Posted on August 13, 2008
Hungarian weightlifter, Janos Baranyai, had a horrific injury caught on video today in Beijing. The Hungarian weightlifter, Janos Baranyai, was taken to a hospital Wednesday after dislocating his right elbow during the 77-kilogram division. See Hungarian Weightlifter, Janos Baranyai’s, video below.
Janos Baranyai of Hungary was attempting to life 326.3 lbs., when his elbow popped and his forearm bent backwards. The injured weightlifter fell immediately on the floor shaking and crying out in horrific pain.
Hungary’s coaching staff and Olympic officials rushed to help Baranyai as he lay on the floor, his arm twisted out of position.
The 24-year-old Baranyai was carried off the platform and taken by ambulance to a local hospital, said Benny Johansson, a technical controller at the event.
“It looked really awful,” said Benny Johansson, a technical controller at the event. “If the ligaments are damaged then it could take several months to heal.”
“If the ligaments are damaged then it could take several months to heal,” Johansson said.
He said elbow injuries are uncommon in weightlifting competitions, but “it happens once in a while at this level.”
“There was a dislocation of the elbow but the bones are not broken,” Tamas Feher, the Hungarian weightlifting federation chief, said. “They just put it right back, but I think he’s lost the rest of the year.”
Feher stated that Baranyai doing alright and watching the rest of the weightlifting competition on TV from a his bed at China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing.
He said elbow and knee injuries are the most common injuries in the sport, “but the number of injuries are quite small in comparison with the number of athletes. You cannot even compare it with football for example.”
Baranyai was a former Judo wrestler, and was Hungary’s only weightlifter the Olympics and was ninth in both the snatch and clean and jerk in the European Championship earlier this year while placing 33rd in last year’s world championship.
In Beijing, he cleared his first snatch attempts at 140kg and 145kg before loading up the bar at 148kg.
“He’s 24 so at least he has two more Olympics,” Feher said. “He’s our biggest hope for London 2012.”
Some pictures of Janos at the time of the lift, click to enlarge.
We’ve included a video of the Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai below:
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