“Unfortunately, Tian Tao, world champion and clean and jerk world record holder, and Deng Wei, Olympic champion and world record holder, were not among the eight, due to their injuries.”ĭeng Wei, on the other hand, who holds three world records and won at 63kg at Rio 2016, would have been one of the strongest gold medal favourites at Tokyo 2020 for the Chinese to continue the Asian country’s dominance in the competition, but is unavailable to compete. This lift tops the previous World Record of. THEWILL recalls that China has won five weightlifting gold medals at every Olympic Games this century. Tao put on a killer performance and set a new world record for the clean & jerk in the -96kg weight class with a strong 231kg / 509 lb third attempt. Most often weightlifters from other nations come to weightlifting to attempt to displace the Chinese, or if possible, completely avoid weight categories with Chinese lifters, for their chances at medals. Yet, in the absence of these two, Wei and Tao, the formidable China team to represent the country in Tokyo, of four men and four women, collectively hold 15 world records, as well as two Olympic titles and will not be easy to displace except by the most excellent of the best.Īhead the commencement of the Games, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has the responsibility to publish the final ranking lists for all weight categories for Tokyo 2020, after team selections had been made worldwide. The standard practice will see the top eight in each category qualify to compete in the Games together with the highest placed athletes from the five Continental Federations of the world. There will also be a member of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) all-sport refugee team, Cyrille Tchatchet, now residing in England after leaving Cameroon, competing in the 96 kg category.įor the XXXLL Olympiad, there will be additional home nation places for Japan, and tripartite invitations are to be decided by the IWF as well. The Games in Tokyo will have a total of 16 nations restricted to one male and one female, or two males and two females due to multiple doping violations. For extreme doping violations, three countries have been banned outrightly. They include Thailand, Egypt and Malaysia. (The name push jerk is often used synonymously for power jerk the two can be distinguished by defining a push jerk as a power jerk in which the feet remain connected to the platform rather than being lifted and replaced.) Ongoing cases of other doping infringements could result in more bans of varying degrees as Romania, Vietnam and Colombia are all under investigation for performance enhancing drugs use by their athletes.The power jerk is named such because the receiving position is identical to those of the power snatch and power clean-feet in the squat stance and thighs above horizontal. While the power jerk is a fairly common training exercise, it’s a comparatively rare competitive jerk style because of its greater demand on bar elevation relative to the split. We saw lifts over the world record by Luis Mosquera in the M-73kg, Tian Tao and Liu Huanhua in the men's -89, as well as from three US weightlifters: Kate Vibert (W-71), Hayley Reichardt (W-49) and Hampton Morris (M-61).The power receiving position is more difficult to hold than a split at lower depths because the mechanics of the knee are so poor as you near a horizontal thigh, so the receiving depth is pretty limited for most lifters (a notable exception is Apti Aukhadov, who receives close to a parallel squat). As we build up to an incredibly tense and important World Championships, athletes are peaking and beginning to share with us the fruits of their labour. Watch the World Weightlifting Championships 2023 Watch the Weightlifting World Championships 2023 here - The return of the Weightlifting House News Show.
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