{"id":492,"date":"2009-04-08T05:14:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T05:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2009-04-08T05:16:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T05:16:02","slug":"giles-greenwood-weightlifting-coach-at-bethnal-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/giles-greenwood-weightlifting-coach-at-bethnal-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Giles Greenwood &#8211; Bethnal Green Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just realised that I never got round to posting up the picture of me and Giles Greenwood, one of the coaches at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/bethnal-green-weightlifting-club\/\">Bethnal Green<\/a>.  Well here it is:<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/images\/bethnal-green-giles-greenwood.jpg\" alt=\"Giles Greenwood\" \/>\n<p>If you don\u2019t remember me mentioning him before, <strong>Giles is the British Record holder<\/strong> for the Snatch (180 kg \/ 396 lbs) and Clean &amp; Jerk (207.5 kg \/ 456 lbs) in the 105+ weight category.  As such, he\u2019s lifted more than any other British person, since they reset all the records that is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/images\/bethnal-green-giles-greenwood2.jpg\" alt=\"Giles Greenwood at the Commonwealth Games 2002\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That photo is taken when he did both those lifts in the 2002 Commonwealth Games, he had less hair back then, though he\u2019s since shaved it all off again.<strong> Giles took Gold in the Snatch, Bronze for the C&amp;J and Silver over all.<\/strong> Along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/2-new-personal-bests-in-the-last-7-days\/\">Patrick Atteridge<\/a>, he\u2019s a dedicated and committed weightlifting coach, with a cutting and typical English sarcastic sense of humour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just realised that I never got round to posting up the picture of me and Giles Greenwood, one of the coaches at Bethnal Green. Well here it is: If you don\u2019t remember me mentioning him before, Giles is the British Record holder for the Snatch (180 kg \/ 396 lbs) and Clean &amp; Jerk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,115],"tags":[77,111,155,365,124,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-olympic-weightlifting","8":"tag-bethnal-green","9":"tag-clean-and-jerk","10":"tag-giles-greenwood","11":"tag-olympic-weightlifting","12":"tag-patrick-atteridge","13":"tag-snatch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}