Liao Guifang continued China’s dominance at the Asian Weightlifting
Championships here in Jinju by breaking two world records and moving
to the top of the Paris 2024 rankings.
Chinese weightlifters are top of the Paris 2024 rankings in four of
the 10 weight categories, and after the Asian Championships which
start in Jinju, Korea tomorrow they may take that number up to seven
or eight.
Two Olympic gold medallists and a world champion were among the
weightlifters who took to the streets this week to help promote the
sport in Bahrain and raise the credentials of the Gulf nation as a
future host of international competitions.
At the end of a year when weightlifting news has been dominated by
reforms, election controversies, politics and doping, the athletes
return to centre stage tomorrow at the 2022 International
Weightlifting Federation World Championships in Bogotá, Colombia.
The full list of weightlifting’s qualifying events for Paris 2024
has been announced by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF)
during its Special Congress at the Hilton Hotel in Bogotá, Colombia.