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		Pechalov clinched gold with lifts of 150kgs in the snatch and 175kg in the clean and jerk for a combined total of 325kgs.
		Croatia's Nikolay Pechalov won a cherished Olympic gold medal on Sunday but his triumph was overshadowed by the failure of "Lifter of the Century" Naim Suleymanoglu of Turkey to clinch victory for a record fourth time.
		Pechalov, who was born in Bulgaria like Suleymanoglu and shared a coach with him in their younger days, carried over the form which won him the European Championships last year to take gold in the 62kg class with a total of 325kg (150kg and 175kg).
	sport.hrt.hr /htvsport/olympics/pesalov_dodatak.html (1124 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Sports \| Who won what (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		European champion Nikolay Pechalov of Croatia upstaged Turkey's Naim Suleymanaglu in his bid to create Olympic history by taking the men's 62 kilogramme class gold medal.
		Pechalov, 30, who started competing at the age of 12, set an Olympic Games record of 150kg in the snatch and lifted 175kg in the clean and jerk for a combined total of 325kg.
		Sabanis trailed Pechalov by 2.5kg in the snatch after lifting 147.5kg and added 170kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 317.5kg.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/500/sp1.htm (2551 words)

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		Nikolay Pechalov of Bulgaria/Crotia did it as well (bronze '92,
		Pechalov: 1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze in 4 non-consecutive Olympiads...
		Nikolay Pechalov of Bulgaria/Crotia did it as well (bronze
	www.cyclingforums.com /t-186149-15-4.html (1509 words)

	Chinese lifter makes sure of gold medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		His total of 677 3/4 pounds broke the mark of 672 1/4 pounds set by Nikolay Pechalov of Bulgaria in 1993.
		Had Tang failed on the lift, he would have finished in a tie for first with Leonidas Sabanis of Greece at 672 1/4 pounds, but Sabanis would have won the gold because of lighter body weight.
		Pechalov, a silver medalist in the 1992 Olympics, won the bronze with a total of 666 3/4 pounds.
	www.canoe.ca /OlympicsWeightlifting/jul22_lift.html (452 words)

	how come greeks suck athletically? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nikolay Pechalov of Bulgaria/Crotia did it as well (bronze '92, silver '96, gold '00 and silver again last Wednesday).
		Nikolay Pechalov of Bulgaria/Crotia did it as well (bronze '92, > silver '96, gold '00 and silver again last Wednesday).
		I knew that Dimas was going to be the first one in history to do it in these Olympics but didn't consider that there might have been others that during the same Olympics could reach that as well.
	www.pahealthsystems.com /message59401.html (859 words)

	Brudirect.com - Local News
		South Korea's Lee Bae-Young, who has competed in Zhang's shadow for several years, had to settle for silver with 342.5kg with popular Croatian Nikolay Pechalov, a gold medallist at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, in third spot with 337.5kg.
		Lee presented Korea with their first Olympic weightlifting medal since the 1992 Barcelona Games while Pechalov, who switched allegiance to Croatia from Bulgaria for a football-style transfer fee reputed to be US$100,000, picked up his fourth in four Games.
		Although shy of the world record, it was 7.5kg more than he lifted on the way to winning last year's world championship and Zhang celebrated by blowing kisses to the crowd.
	www.brudirect.com /DailyInfo/News/Archive/Aug04/200804/bb_sports02.htm (392 words)

	Netguruindia News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In a bid to put pressure back on his emerging rivals, Suleymanoglu asked for 145 kg in the snatch event, higher than the Olympic record.
		He, however, failed in all his three attempts to bow out to end a career that dominated weightlifting nearly a decade and half.
		Nikolay Pechalov took the gold, Leonidas Sabanis of Greece and Sevdalin Minchev Angelov of Bulgaria took the silver and bronze medals respectively.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/Sep00/20/SPO5.html (340 words)

	Olympic Roundup:Weightlifter holds on for world record, gold
		His total of 6773/4 pounds broke the mark of 6721/4 pounds set by Nikolay Pechalov of Bulgaria in 1993 and gave China its first Olympic weightlifting gold medal since the 1984 Games.
		Pechalov, the former world-record holder, won the bronze medal with a total of 6663/4 pounds.
		Bryan Jacob, 27, of Alpharetta, Ga., the first of 10 U.S. lifters competing in weightlifting, finished ninth in the field of 20 with an American-record total of 6003/4 pounds, eclipsing the standard of 595 pounds he set in April.
	www.onwisconsin.com /sports/oly/round721.html (849 words)

	Durrani Law Firm, Ltd. :: THE GLOBALIZATION OF ATHLETICS You got talent? We got citizenship papers. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		That was not the first time Bulgaria sold a weightlifter to another country, either.
		Nikolay Pechalov won a silver medal in 1992 and a bronze in 1996 before being purchased by Croatia in 1998.
		Pechalov proved worth the investment when he won a gold medal for Croatia in 2000.
	www.durrani.com /newsite/news_items/nactive_disp.asp?ID=482 (2031 words)

	Zhang defeats pain to win weightlifting gold
		China's Zhang Guozheng cheers after he won gold in the men's 69 kg (group A) weighlifting competition at the Nikaia Olympic Weighlifting Hall in Athens.
		China's Zhang Guozheng (C) celebrates his gold medal win on the podium with South Korea's Lee Bae-young (L) who took the silver medal and Croatia's Nikolay Pechalov who won the bronze medal in the men's 69kg weightlifting event in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games August 18, 2004.
		China's Zhang Guozheng celebrates his gold medal in the men's 69 kg weightlifting event on the podium at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games August 18, 2004.
	www2.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-08/19/content_366815.htm (129 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Turkey's top weightlifter misses glory
		Suleymanoglu, who was born an ethnic Turk in Bulgaria and defected to Turkey in 1986, is a sporting hero in Turkey.
		The competition was won by Nikolay Pechalov of Croatia silver going to Greece's Leonidas Sabis with the Bulgarian Sevdalin Minchev Angelov taking bronze.
		Meanwhile, Izabela Dragneva of Bulgaria has made history, becoming the first ever gold medallist in women's weightlifting at the Olympics.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/928897.stm (126 words)

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