Final up to date on December sixteenth, 2024
The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Manama, Bahrain, from Dec. 6-15, 2024, featured a number of the most memorable world record overhauls in latest reminiscence. New weight categories can be instituted in June 2025, which means lower than half a 12 months to change the historical past of the present weight classes earlier than they change into out of date.
Amongst these rewriting historical past is China’s Yan Li, who competed in Bahrain within the Girls’s superheavyweight class. Yan Li competed within the Open competitors regardless of being solely 20 years outdated and set a brand new snatch world file of 149 kilograms. Given her age, the file additionally stands as the brand new Junior world file.
Yan Li’s efficiency earned her the general gold medal with a 324-kilogram complete, a exceptional 29 kilograms greater than the silver medalist, Hyejeong Park, and 44 kilograms forward of the bronze medalist, Younghee Son, each representing South Korea.
Yan Li’s world file elevate could be seen within the video beneath, courtesy of the IWF’s Instagram web page:
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2024 IWF World Championships Outcomes — Girls’s +87KG
The outcomes beneath are listed in kilograms as: snatch/clean & jerk — complete.
- Yan Li (CHN) — 149/175 — 324 — World Document Snatch
- Hyejeong Park (KOR) — 124/171 — 295
- Younghee Son (KOR) — 118/162 — 280
Watching the pace and management with which Yan Li snatched the barbell from the ground overhead and stood up, one may not notice that world file weight was loaded onto it. At no level did the elevate seem unsure, nor did Yan Li specific any problem in her flawless method, nor did she specific any hardship on her face.
Yan Li’s snatch was 25 kilograms greater than Hyejeong Park’s 124-kilogram elevate and all however assured Yan Li’s eventual gold medal earlier than the athletes tried their first clear & jerks.
Upon reaching the brand new world file, Yan Li dropped the barbell, stepped again, and humbly bowed to the judges and followers in attendance.
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Featured picture: @iwfnet on Instagram