Friday, 14 May 2021
The remarkable strength in depth of Chinese weightlifting was evident at the women’s National Championships - and for the first time in many months the athletes were watched by a live audience.
While China’s national team lifters were locked away in quarantine after their travels to Uzbekistan last month for the Asian Championships - a controversially unnecessary and costly journey - young talents who have never competed at senior international level were in world record form in Jiangshan.
Conversely, at the same time in Cali, Colombia there was a sad farewell for world record holder and Olympic champion Sohrab Moradi of Iran.
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Moradi claims silver at Asian Weightlifting Championships Tehran Times
TEHRAN – Sohrab Moradi seized a silver medal at the 2021 Asian Weightlifting Championships on Friday in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The 96kg weightlifter, who has had serious shoulder and spinal injuries over the past years, lifted the 174kg in the snatch and 210kg in the clean and jerk.
He won the silver medal, making total of 384kg in the weight class.
Chinese representative Tian Tao won the gold medal with 175-211-386.
The bronze medal went to Korean Jang Yeon-hak with 379kg.
Thursday, 22 April 2021
Kianoush Rostami won an Asian Championships gold medal but he could not have looked unhappier on the platform and the podium in Tashkent.
Rostami, one of the world’s most popular weightlifters who has won gold and silver at the past two Olympic Games, is clearly still seething about his failure to qualify for Tokyo 2020.
The 29-year-old Iranian has the third highest total at 96kg in Olympic qualifying but sits 32
nd in the rankings because he scored zero points in the second phase.
For that he blamed a mix-up by officials at the 2019 International Weightlifting Federation World Championships and his own federation for an administrative delay in entering him for a qualifier in Switzerland 18 months ago.
Friday, 23 April 2021
There was a rare sight at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent when the top two finishers in the men’s 96kg failed to match the top two Pan American lifters at the same weight.
The concurrent championships are gold qualifiers for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and the Asians have generally outperformed everybody else - largely because China’s team is so strong.
But in the 96kg Tian Tao, who tops the rankings, and the Iranian world record holder Sohrab Moradi, on his return from injury, were both overshadowed by the efforts 12,000 kilometres away of the Colombian winner Jhonatan Rivas and the improving Canadian Boady Santavy.