Lee Sang-yeon (Suwon City Hall) won the first medal for Korea at the 2023 Jinju Asian Weightlifting Championships.
Lee Sang-yeon lifted 139kg of snatch, 175kg of jerk, and 314kg in total in the men’s 67kg class competition held at Jinju Gymnasium on the 7th.
In the most important total, Lee Sang-yeon came in second.
Although it was ranked 4th in impression, it took 1st place in sweeping and raised the overall ranking to 2nd.
Unlike the Asian Games and Olympics, where medals are awarded only for total records, in the Asian Weightlifting Championships, medals were awarded for snatch, jerk, and total.
Lee Sang-yeon won the silver medal in total and the gold medal in the jerk.
Heweji (China) occupied the first place in the total weight category.
Heoweji lifted 147kg (1st place), 173kg (3rd place), and 320kg (1st place) in total.
Sang-Yeon Lee, who weighed 175kg in the first period of jerking, applied for 182kg in the second and third periods.
182kg is the same weight as the Korean record held by Lee Sang-yeon at the 1st Korea Weightlifting Federation President’s Cup, which also served as an evaluation match for the Asian Games on the 2nd of last month.
If Lee Sang-yeon had lifted 182 kg, he could have surpassed Heo Wedge and even climbed to the top of the total, but unfortunately he was not judged ‘clean’ (successful).
Adcamzon Ergashev (Uzbekistan), who weighed 312kg (138kg lift, 174kg jerk), took third place in this weight class.
The men’s 67kg class is one of the seven weight classes in the men’s official weightlifting event at the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Lee Sang-yeon, who took first place in the representative selection competition last April, virtually secured a ticket to Hangzhou.
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, the men’s weightlifting event will be reduced to five weight classes (61kg, 73kg, 89kg, 102kg, and over 102kg).
Lee Sang-yeon plans to challenge for a medal at the Asian Games, which will open in September this year, and then adjust her weight class to participate in the Paris Olympics.
Seo Jeong-mi (Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall) in the women’s 59 kg class took 6th place in all three categories with a weight of 98 kg, a jerk of 117 kg, and a total weight of 215 kg.
Seo Jeong-mi set a new Korean record in this weight category in the impression.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) created a new weight class system from the World Weightlifting Championships held in November 2018 and announced a world standard record.
The Korea Weightlifting Federation also prepared a Korean standard record table, and set the Korean women’s 59kg class increase Korean record at 97kg. Seo Jeong-mi changed the 59kg weight lifting record, which remained only as a Korean standard record for nearly five years.토토사이트
In this weight class, two newcomers from China knocked out two Olympic champions.
Lu Shifang, born in 2001, lifted 105kg and 133kg, total 238kg, and Peixinyi, born in 2005, took second place with 103kg, 133kg, and 236kg total.
Gold medalist Guo Xingjun (Taiwan) in the 59kg class at the Tokyo Olympics fell to third place with 102kg for snatch and 128kg for jerking, with a total weight of 230kg.
Haidilyn Dias (Philippines), who won the 55kg class at the Tokyo Olympics, competed in the 59kg class and finished fourth with a total of 221kg (snatch 99kg, jerk 122kg).