Weightlifting IWF World Championships 2024

[JoshMartini007 2,547]

With the IWF cracking down on doping, North Korea was already the second best nation before Covid. The three-year isolation does make things suspicious.

 

Considering the IWF is now testing them every time they compete (given their results), they are probably clean now. The IWF is on such a short leash that a scandal like this may kill the federation so I imagine they are keeping a watchful eye on them.

[Federer91 2,810]

Karlos just makes things look so easy  25 kg from second place and 2 new world records. If he had 2-3 more minutes of rest he could have gotten 225 kg as well. 

[JoshMartini007 2,547]

 Reeves won the women's 71kg.

[El Analyzer 192]

Two gold slipped from hands (logic this time) 

Nasar  in men 89 kg won the gold with brilliant performance

Reeves  in women 71 kg with great boosting performance in C&J

 

[phelps 7,703]

and  adds another Gold to their collection  

[MHSN 3,631]

Kazakhstan won two golds yesterday and today

 

but there is something interesting about both of these guys. Antropov and Adiletuly 

they both failed a doping test in 2023, ITA gave them a 1.5 years suspension which expired right few days before this tournament. 

 

Kazakhstan never stopped doing their "thing"  whenever Guy A failed the test, the brought up Guy B doing the same until he fails too. then move to guy C. now with ITA's help they are even recycling their already exposed cheaters.

 

yet they never received a real and serious ban for this. well I guess they know where and how to expend their money. paying the right guy.

[Federer91 2,810]

With his result, Karlos would have won the next 2 weights as well.  Let's see if tomorrow they can beat his total. 

[heywoodu 15,174]

Any chance one could rewatch these events on YouTube? Such a tragedy Eurosport doesn't do weightlifting anymore  And it's not on Eurovisionsports neither.

[MHSN 3,631]

12 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Any chance one could rewatch these events on YouTube? Such a tragedy Eurosport doesn't do weightlifting anymore  And it's not on Eurovisionsports neither.

here, it may be geo-blocked though

 

https://olympics.com/en/sport-events/2024-iwf-world-weightlifting-championships-manama/replays

[MHSN 3,631]

I wonder if anybody in the world cares about the team ranking in weightlifting but our federation does 

 

in past 10-12 years Iran lost so many medals because of this. most of our weightlifters start (mostly in CJ) with a very low weight (usually the minimum they can because of the entry record) to make sure they have a total and get some ranking points for the team and then jump something like 10 kilos for the medal. it usually kills their medal chance. I believe we could win the gold at 96, silver at 109 and a medal (not sure what color) at 102kg but lost them because of this super stupid strategy. IWF commentators always laugh at Iranian weightlifters and their weird weigh selection strategy. 

 

it was an OKish tournament for the Iranian team. winning 1 silver and 3 bronze is not great but not bad either. Yousefi and Davoudi both making their last attempts and kicking that piece of crap Bahraini mercenary out of the podium made my day.

 

unfortunately Yousefi is weak in Snatch to be a treat for the total gold medal. but he lifted 262 in CJ yesterday, I believe only few weightlifters in history did that before. it looked like he might be capable of lifting 268 which will be the best CJ lift ever.