Weightlifting at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[Bearas 521]

Lithuanian weightlifter achieved his worst result ever in international competitions (not that he had any chances anyway as he is in the B squad), but worth noting that he used to be coached by former Lithuanian Weightlifting federation president a.k.a. Most notorious Doping guru who got arrested last year after police raided his house/his son's house/his office and found 70+ kinds of doping.  

[heywoodu 15,148]

Unlikely but not entirely impossible medal chance out of the B group today, but he'll need more luck than the Indonesian last week  

 

[MHSN 3,625]

couple days ago at the same time as 96kg competition. S. Moradi lifted 230kg in training just to tell himself that was his gold medal on Fares's neck.

 

some media here are claiming that our WL federation made a deal with Qatar, not registering Moradi intentionally to sell that gold to Qatar

 

which is nonsense, at the time our WL federation was registering Moradi was outside of the qualification zone and we registered someone else at 109kg. but after the deadline some other athletes withdrew and other weightlifters below Moradi got the chance to compete.

[heywoodu 15,148]

There we go, Djuraev starting with a miss.

[rybak 3,218]

Well, I had some hope from Michalski but now any medal chances are throwed away.

[Federer91 2,797]

Of course Hashemi will bomb out  Of course after Hristov will miss the bronze for 1 kg after a mistake.  Bet, if he made those 222, Hashemi would have made his as well, so Hristov would have been fourth again. 

[Federer91 2,797]

PS. Plesnieks fights for the bronze with a big lift. 

[hckošice 14,836]

Men's -109kg
Final Results

 

  Akbar DJURAEV

430 OR (193 + 237 OR)

 

Simon MARTIROSYAN

423 (195 OR + 228)

 

  Arturs PLESNIEKS

410 (180 + 230)

 

Final Results Here

[Monzanator 4,507]

Djuraev is only 21 years old? Is he like the next prodigy or what? Latvia winning a medal here must be a major surprise?

[heywoodu 15,148]

15 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Djuraev is only 21 years old? Is he like the next prodigy or what? Latvia winning a medal here must be a major surprise?

A little surprise, I'd say, not huge