How to Use clean and jerk in a Sentence

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  • There are two Olympic lifts: the snatch and the clean and jerk.
    — Arianna Vedia, Dallas News, 20 July 2021
  • His combined 313kg in the the snatch and clean and jerk also set an Olympic record.
    — Alyssa Hertel, USA TODAY, 25 July 2021
  • Each lifter gets three attempts for each of the two techniques, the bench press and clean and jerk.
    — Buddy Collings, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Olympic weightlifting consists of three snatch attempts and three clean and jerk.
    — Rick Armstrong, Aurora Beacon-News, 30 June 2018
  • Jourdan Delacruz of the United States was third after the snatch portion of the contest but failed on all three or her lifts in the clean and jerk.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
  • Saturday’s silver medalist, Mirabai of India, failed to make a clean and jerk attempt at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 24 July 2021
  • Lifting a personal best 114kg in the clean and jerk to defeat Canada's Tali Darsigny.
    — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Hearn said Smith could hoist 315 pounds in the clean and jerk, and competed in the state championship in weightlifting during the football offseason.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2021
  • Other examples include Olympic lifts (i.e., snatch and clean and jerk), the squat jump (loaded or unloaded), and even the kettlebell swing.
    — Men's Health, 31 May 2022
  • Athletes must successfully attempt the snatch before proceeding to the clean and jerk.
    — Arianna Vedia, Dallas News, 20 July 2021
  • Jourdan Delacruz, a weightlifter from north Texas, was headed toward a bronze medal in the 49-kg division before failing to convert her three attempts to clean and jerk, her second discipline of the day.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Assured of silver for his country's first medal in Tokyo, Mayora added his own flourish with a failed attempt to break Shi's record of 198kg for the clean and jerk, then signed off the competition with a backflip on stage.
    — James Ellingworth, Star Tribune, 28 July 2021
  • Muattar Nabieva led the competition with a snatch lift of 98kg but was 9kg behind Chinshanlo on the clean and jerk and placed fourth, missing the podium by one kilogram.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 26 July 2021
  • Assured of silver for his country’s first medal in Tokyo, Mayora added his own flourish with a failed attempt to break Shi’s record of 198 kilograms for the clean and jerk, then signed off the competition with a backflip on stage.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
  • On Sunday, Google honored Kono on what would have been his 91st birthday with a Doodle animation depicting the clean and jerk, one of the more common weightlifting exercises.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2021
  • Lyu Xiaojun won gold in the men’s 81-kilogram weightlifting category after Italian rival Antonino Pizzolato missed with a shot at the clean and jerk world record . . .
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021

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