While Chinese weightlifters harvested 5 gold medals, three silvers and one bronze on the Hangzhou Asiad, DPR Korean weightlifters additionally impressed. Eyeing the Paris Olympics, Team China is to replicate on the positive aspects and losses for higher preparation.
HANGZHOU, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) — Chinese weightlifters felt stress from their rivals on the Asian Games, and would evaluation their performances in Hangzhou to arrange for the Paris Olympics.
The weightlifting competitors concluded on Saturday with host China gathering 5 golds, three silvers and one bronze.
DPR Korean weightlifters flexed their muscle mass by pocketing six golds and posting six information whereas Indonesia, South Korea and Bahrain captured one gold every.
Jang Song Nam, an official from DPRK’s Olympic Committee, attributed the workforce’s spectacular efficiency to their rigorous each day coaching routine.
“There is no secret for our success,” mentioned Jang, explaining that his workforce had missed a number of worldwide competitions over the previous couple of years, together with the delayed Tokyo Olympic Games.
“All weightlifters of the team trained hard for the Hangzhou Asiad,” he mentioned, including that the nation have held many various competitions for its athletes to take care of aggressive type throughout the previous couple of years.
Yu Jie, coach of Chinese weightlifting workforce, was impressed by DPR Korean weightlifters’ efficiency, particularly their strongwomen, who grabbed 5 golds.
“Their weightlifting strength was demonstrated at the Asiad,” mentioned Yu, including that his workforce would replicate on their positive aspects and losses on the Asian Games and totally put together for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Most of China’s weightlifters have joined the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships final month in Riyadh of Saudi Arabia. Athletes had no time to get better after taking part in two competitions for a short while, based on coaches and weightlifters.
China’s Li Wenwen, setting three new Olympic information en path to a gold medal within the ladies’s +87kg class on the Tokyo Olympic Games, had withdrawn from the Asian Games occasion as a consequence of an elbow harm.
The 23-year-old suffered the harm throughout the world championships in Riyadh final month, and her absence left China with 13 weightlifters on the Hangzhou Asiad.
China’s Hou Zhihui, who had received the 49kg gold on the Tokyo Olympics, took the bronze with 210kg within the ladies’s 55kg class on the Asiad. In the competition, Hou suffered a slight sprain throughout her second try within the snatch.
“My coach suggested me quitting the competition,” mentioned Hou, including that she insisted on competing for the bronze.
In the ladies’s 87kg class, 26-year-old Liang Xiaomei of China, a gold medalist within the ladies’s 81kg on the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships, took a dominant win within the ladies’s 87kg weightlifting on the Asiad.
“After the world championships, I tried my best to adjust my form,” mentioned the injury-plagued Liang, including that she would now give attention to the Paris Olympics and proceed to enhance her efficiency.
Yu indicated that his male weightlifter has made breakthrough in heavyweight occasion. Liu Huanhua, a 22-year-old gold medalist within the males’s 102kg class on the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships, received males’s 109kg gold on the Asiad, setting Games information in each clear and jerk and complete weight.
“Liu made a miracle at the Asiad gave me confidence to expect him to make history in heavyweight event at the Paris Olympic Games,” mentioned Yu, stating that each one athletes of the workforce would enhance their type and put together for the Paris 2024.