Olympic weightlifter turns his elbow back to front

Going wrong: Baranyai loses control of the barbell twisting his left arm 

Impact: Baranyai's legs buckle as his arm bends around the barbell 

Agony: Baranyai screams in pain 

Pain: Baranyai crumbles to the ground 
Baranyai was carried off the platform on a stretcher and taken by ambulance to a local hospital for evaluation and treatment, said Benny Johansson, a technical controller at the event. 
It was not immediately clear how serious the injury was. 
'It looked really awful,' Johansson said. 'If the ligaments are damaged then it could take several months to heal.' 
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.' 

Stricken: Baranyai grimaces on the platform after dislocating his right elbow 

Horror injury: Baranyai's elbow clearly faces the wrong way as he lies on the ground 

Help: the Hungarian is treated by doctors 
A former judo wrestler from Oroszlany, Hungary, Baranyai was competing with the so-called B-group of lifters in the 77kg division. 
Hungary 's lone lifter in the Olympics, he was ninth in both the snatch and clean and jerk in the European Championship earlier this year and placed 33rd in last year's world championship. He cleared his first snatch attempts at 140kg and 145kg before loading up the bar at 148kg - a relatively modest weight in top-level competition. The world record in the snatch is 173kg. 
In the snatch, the bar is pulled overhead in one continuous motion as the lifter settles into a squat, then rises with arms extended. 
Baranyai was in the squat position when his elbow popped.