Weightlifting IWF Grand Prix II 2023 Road to Paris 2024

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Grand Prix II ( Doha)

 

women's +87kg

Gold:  Mary Anne Theisen Lappen (283kg Total)

Silver:  Duangaksorn Chaidee (273kg Total)

Bronze:  Iuniarra Sipaia (262kg Total)

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just one remarkable news in the women's +87kg class

 

 Mary Anne Theisen Lappen wins Gold with 120-163-283kg, improving her best Total by 6kg and overtaking by 1 kilo her compatriot Sarah Robles in the OQR.

 

Now she's the best American lifter in this class (5th useful place).

 

 Duangaksorn Chaidee won Today's Silver with 121-152-273kg, but she didn't improve her best Total in the OQR.

 

Still, she's 4th in the OQR, so, her qualification is definitely not in danger.

 

Also  Iuniarra Sipaia, despite the overall Bronze medal in Today's event, didn't improve her best Total in the OQR, but mantained her 9th useful place in that ranking.

 

That's all from the women's competitions in the Grand Prix II in Doha.

 

Later Today, the last event of this tournament, the men's Superheavyweights.

[rybak 2,694]

@phelps Anybody from Poland have bigger chances for quota after this event, or its wishful thinking?

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35 minutes ago, rybak said:

@phelps Anybody from Poland have bigger chances for quota after this event, or its wishful thinking?

at the moment no, but 2 or 3 of your weightlifters are in top 20. and not very far behind the 10th place record. still needs to improve something like 10kg

 

but personally I think anybody in top 15 may qualify eventually. officially top 10 will go to Paris but we know this sport. it's always possible to have last minute injuries, disqualifications, also NOCs are limited to only 3 in each gender which will remove some weightlifters from the list too

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Grand Prix II ( Doha)

 

men's +109kg

Gold:  Varazdat Lalayan (441kg Total)

Silver:  Simon Martirosyan (430kg Total)

Bronze:  () Eduard Ziaziulin (418kg Total)

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last event in Doha, the men's +109kg class

 

and, except for Lalayan, another really modest competition.

 

 won Gold & Silver, thanks to the above mentioned Lalayan (441kg Total, not enough to improve his numbers in the OQR) and Simon Martirosyan (430kg, also far away from his best Total in the OQR and still behind his teammate in that ranking).

 

Bronze went to the Neutral Athlete (originally from ) Eduard Ziaziulin, once again way behind his best Total in the OQR (but he's still in good position to qualify).

 

The only man improving his ranking Today is  Eishiro Murakami, who finished in 4th place with a Total of 413kg, which means that now he's the best man from  in the OQR, where he climbed from way down the ladder to the 15th place overall, but 12th Nation represented, just 6 and 7 kilos from the 9th and 10th useful places, respectively.

 

 

That's all for what concerns the GP II in Doha.

 

Next OQTs are the various Continental Championships (all of them in February), before the last chance, the World Cup in  at the beginning of April 2024.

Edited December 14, 2023 by phelps

[Gagaska93 11]

After GP in Doha I prepared a simulation of men's tournament. There are some special rules in weightlifting such as maximum of 3 per NOC. For France I decided to choose Imadouchene (89), Coullet (+102) and Kingue Matam (73).

 

61 kg	73 kg	89 kg	102 kg	>102 kg
CHN	INA	CHN	CHN	GEO
ITA	THA	BUL	QAT	BRN
INA	JPN	COL	KOR	ARM
THA	LAT	VEN	BRN	IRI
GEO	KOR	IRI	AIN	SYR
PHI	BUL	ITA	ARM	UZB
MAS	ESP	ARM	GEO	EGY
BUL	ITA	EGY	IRI	AIN
VIE	TUR	CAN	MDA	ALG
USA	VEN	AIN	KGZ	IRQ
CUB	TUN	USA	USA	NZL
GER	FRA	FRA	FRA	KOR

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12 hours ago, Gagaska93 said:

After GP in Doha I prepared a simulation of men's tournament. There are some special rules in weightlifting such as maximum of 3 per NOC. For France I decided to choose Imadouchene (89), Coullet (+102) and Kingue Matam (73).

 

61 kg	73 kg	89 kg	102 kg	>102 kg
CHN	INA	CHN	CHN	GEO
ITA	THA	BUL	QAT	BRN
INA	JPN	COL	KOR	ARM
THA	LAT	VEN	BRN	IRI
GEO	KOR	IRI	AIN	SYR
PHI	BUL	ITA	ARM	UZB
MAS	ESP	ARM	GEO	EGY
BUL	ITA	EGY	IRI	AIN
VIE	TUR	CAN	MDA	ALG
USA	VEN	AIN	KGZ	IRQ
CUB	TUN	USA	USA	NZL
GER	FRA	FRA	FRA	KOR

I wouldn't take for granted that  would eventually choose those 3 weight classes

 

if Shi is reasonably healthy, they might take him (in the -73kg) over Li and Tian in the -89kg, where they don't have any chance for Gold and even getting a miserable (for them) bronze might prove very difficult

 

we'll see...

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6 hours ago, phelps said:

I wouldn't take for granted that  would eventually choose those 3 weight classes

 

if Shi is reasonably healthy, they might take him (in the -73kg) over Li and Tian in the -89kg, where they don't have any chance for Gold and even getting a miserable (for them) bronze might prove very difficult

 

we'll see...

Yes, you are right, it is a hard decision but.. what about women's categories? I don't know who would be dismissed by China. All 5 Chinese are great and if there wouldn't be limited to 3 weight classes, China would have 5 gold medals. What do you think?
In my opinion they would choose Li Wenwen (+89 kg), Liang (81) and Jiang (49).

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3 hours ago, Gagaska93 said:

Yes, you are right, it is a hard decision but.. what about women's categories? I don't know who would be dismissed by China. All 5 Chinese are great and if there wouldn't be limited to 3 weight classes, China would have 5 gold medals. What do you think?
In my opinion they would choose Li Wenwen (+89 kg), Liang (81) and Jiang (49).

yeah, among the women it's pretty safe that they will choose -49kg, -81kg, +81kg (even if I wouldn't be surprised if they still go for the -71kg instead of the -81kg, but it's unlikey to happen)