Snatch Weightlifting Lambert M Surhone

Brief Description: "All parts of this book are extracted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (www.wikipedia.org)."-- T.p. verso. Brief Description: "The editors (Ed.) of this book are no authors. They have not modified or extended the original texts."--T.p. verso. Publisher Marketing: This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The snatch is one of the two olympic weightlifting events. The essence of the event is to lift a barbell from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement. The barbell is pulled as high as the lifter can manage typically to mid chest height at which point the barbell is flipped overhead. With relatively light weights as in the "power snatch" locking of the arms may not require rebending the knees.