Final up to date on December twelfth, 2024
The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Manama, Bahrain, from Dec. 6-15, 2024, has been a cataclysm of world data. Athletes discovered that new weight classes have been confirmed for June 2025 and determined to let unfastened on the file books earlier than they take impact.
Within the lightest weight class of the competitors — Ladies’s 45KG — Zhao Jinhong of China set the stage ablaze, scoring a brand new world file clean & jerk and new world file complete en path to her gold medal.
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Zhao employed a squat jerk approach reasonably than the extra frequent split jerk to lock out and ascend her clear & jerk world file in Manama. At no level within the video above of her carry does she appear to battle or encounter points moving the barbell from the ground to overhead.
Zhao’s immaculate efficiency featured a 113-kilogram clear & jerk and an 87-kilogram snatch for a clear 200-kilogram complete. She would have accomplished the world file hat trick if her snatch had been a single kilogram extra. Nonetheless, her 87-kilogram snatch tied the world file at the moment held by North Korea’s Hyon Sim Won. Because the North Korean weightlifter achieved the file first, it stays in her management.
2024 IWF World Championships Outcomes — Zhao Jinhong, 45KG
- Snatch — 87 kilograms (191.8 kilos)
- Clear & Jerk — 113 kilograms (249.1 kilos) — New World Document
- Whole — 200 kilograms (441 kilos) — New World Document
Different data achieved on the 2024 IWF Championships embody Males’s 89KG lifter Karlos Nasar hitting new snatch and complete data, Males’s 67KG lifter Received Ju Ri’s clear & jerk file, Ladies’s 59KG lifter Il Gyong Kim’s new clear & jerk and complete data, and Ladies’s 64KG lifter Suk Ri’s clear & jerk and complete data.
As of Dec. 12, 2024, the one medal achieved by a lifter from the USA is Olivia Reeves’s gold medal within the 71KG class.
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