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You know for some reasons that match was also "somehow" important for Iran if I remember correctly she didn't lost by Senshou. the Chinese received a caution in last 15 seconds (which annuls the Senshou) she lost by "Hantei" this qualification system makes things a bit weird. some results in other weights help you in another weight !!! for example I want Semeraro to win and Ferracuti to lose (sorry I like all Italian athletes, this is not personal I'm sure you know why ) and beside that it was important for Iran to keep the best ranked Asian athlete. Gong going to the final and probably winning the gold is not a good news for that . another funny thing is I realized there is a chance for Iran to even qualify at 67kg ! how ? we simply have to hope Oceania and America qualify their continental quotas at 75kg (there is an Uzbek athlete in top 10) in that case our 67kg athlete only needs 500-600 pts to catch up 60kg Uzbek Saymatov (and also hoping for Kazakh athletes at +75kg to not get good results) isn't this extremely weird ? Australian results at 75kg will directly affect Iran's chance at 67kg -------------------- PS:the link doesn't work for 61kg results. I just know Giana Lotfy's opponent for bronze is Jovana Prekovic

Iran usually win a good number of medals in this k1 PL events but mostly by different athletes and that doesn't help the Olympic qualification but this K1 event in Moscow was almost perfect. we had 7 athletes close to the Qualification zone and all 7 of them (and nobody else from Iran) made it to the medal round 4 for gold and 3 for bronze. Poursheib (84) and Ganjzadeh (+84) will continue their battle with each other for the Olympic spot at +75kg, they both reached the final, Askari at 75kg lost to Aghayev in last 2 seconds, still that will be enough to send him to the top of the ranking. even though he is not in his best shape recently. for the women's side, Bahmanyar will have her 2nd K1 PL final in a row, with two back to back final (and maybe 2 golds) she is already in top 2 of her weight (and top 4 for her Olympic weight) she will surpass Khaksar for now. Khaksar herself has a chance to win the bronze. even though making into top 2 at 50kg looks easier than 55kg. Rozi Alipour being in the final was surprising, she is still something like 600pts away from the top 4 but she is now the best ranked Asian female athlete. (outside of top 4) the only disappointment was Abbasali. she lost once again to her archrival Uekusa of Japan. still a bronze will keep her in top 2 (of +68kg) but there are 3-4 athletes right next to her.

This is the list of remaining ranking events before the deadline, always possible for WKF to add more events or change something but it seems this is the final list. 2019 Premiere League / 4-6 October / Moscow Premiere League / 29 Nov - 1 Dec / Madrid ----------------------------------------------- 2020 Serie A / 10-12 January / Santiago Premiere League / 24-26 January / Paris African Championship / 7-9 February / Tangier Premiere League / 14-16 February / Dubai Premiere League / 28 Feb - 1 Mar / Salzburg Premiere League / 13-15 March / Rabat European Championship / 25-29 March / Baku * Other continental champs will be held after 6 April and won't affect the ranking.

Are you talking about this ? https://www.iwf.net/doc/statistics/WORLD_CHAMP_SENIOR_001_146.PDF

no but because of the number of doping cases they had. they are limited to send only 1 male weightlifter (for BLR it's 100% and for ARM it's 99%) and I'm quite sure both countries are going to use that lone quota in men's 109kg. and they will battle each other for the gold medal. while at +109kg it will be silver at best. I wrote a long post about it . this is a funny situation ,

Iranian players are not that physically strong to play so many tournaments in summer with the same level. Iran was also terrible during the Asian Champs (played half of the matches with reserve players) they only had one good match in the final. also right now because of some injuries Iran is playing with Ebadipour and Ghaemi as OH, they are both good receivers but terrible attackers, that weakened Iran's attack massively and Ghafour (OP) is also out of shape / tired / not-motivated. Russia's block had a party today. Iran only came back a bit after Kolakovic finally replaced Ghafour but then the reserve OP is also weak. Iran Volleyball Federation had no president in past few months, so Kolakovic has "no boss" right now . no long term plan. they decided to take all tournaments seriously but they ended being terrible in almost all of them. at least they won the Asian Championship but mostly because the other Asian teams aren't that good right now. it was a terrible terrible mistake to play VNL 100% ! (even when Iran didn't have to win all the matches to qualify for final 6) and now we see the consequences . I think Ebadipour played more match with NT this summer than with his club in the entire season in Poland also we have to blame FIVB for this stupid calendar, teams like Iran don't have strong B teams to use them sometimes and they are not smart enough to simply give up some tournaments and focus on the rest. if it was up to me I would consider Asian Champs as #1, then World Cup as #2. OQT as #3 (only because we were in a tough group with Russia) and VNL should be 4th. but unfortunately VNL is more "interesting" for the Iranian fans because of playing some matches at home.

for Turkmenistan, while Rejepov at 81 has a much better chance but I think Toychyyev also has a realistic chance at +109kg. (I explained in details in 2019 World Weightlifting thread) but in short he finished 9th at the Worlds but if you remove 3 (2 ARM and 1 BLR) he is 6th and only 8kg behind the medal zone which is within his reach.

Checking some results, +109kg will be extremely easy for the Olympics. Talakhadze already has the gold but we will have lucky medalists in this weight. let's check the medalists in past few years 2019: 484 460 437 432 431 430 2018: 474 450 447 436 432 427 2017: 477 454 454 447 444 440 and in Euro 2019: 478 447 440 423 422 418 2018: 457 417 416 415 407 380 and in Asia 2019: 432 422 421 418 410 400 2018: 461 456 455 425 405 Best Results in all competitions removing disqualified and ineligible weightlifters (also removing Talakhadze) 2019: 432 431 430 425 424 422 those in red are disqualified, retired or can't participate (99%) because of the quota limitations. Mart Seim of Estonia is very poor recently. and those 2 Iranian weightlifters with big results in 2018 are both retired (even though one of them just changed his mind but it seems late) and this new young Iranian weightlifter is very inconsistent even though he lifted 445kg in Iran 2 weeks before the Worlds. bottom line: there is a VERY good chance for Algeria, Brazil, Turkmenistan, Syria or Chinese Taipei to win a super heavy weight medal in weightlifting winning an Olympic medal with something like 430kg !!!

Qualified countries per new WKF Olympic ranking on 1 October Men Kata: 67kg: 75kg: +75kg: Women Kata: 55kg: 61kg: +61kg: if today was the end of the qualification race, Italy had 5 quotas ! Turkey and Iran with 4, Egypt, USA and Azerbaijan with 3. but if they are going to replace 2019 European with the next one, that may change a lot in this ranking. Only 2 more events left this year, both of them Premier League, Moscow 4-6 October and Madrid late November.

Well done Serbia good chance for Serbia to win both Euro volleys this year (men and women) but who can underestimate Slovenia now ?! can they replace the final venue now ? I would like to see the final in Ljubljana

Talakhadze's 484kg total record is the best total ever. by far. he can consider himself as one of the best weightlifters ever what a terrible day for Davoudi. he just lifted 445kg 3 weeks ago in Tehran. today was the worst day of his career the interesting point is, those Armenian guys most provably won't participate at the Olympics. (Armenia has 1 quota and they will use it for 109kg) Talakhadze already has gold medal in his pocket but we will have some lucky weightlifters winning silver and bronze with low records.

yeah almost. everybody except Olympic Champion Sohrab Moradi who is injured. this is the best we have right now some of our better weightlifters retired in past two years.

man Talakhadze can lift everything ! there is no limit for him

Slovenia watching Heynen and Kubiak losing you can't ask for more.

of course

Draw for the AFC U23 Championship Group A: Group B: Group C: Group D: Group B and C look much harder. top 3 (excluding Japan) will qualify for the Olympics

another unexpected medal our "smart" strategy of winning medal in non-Olympic weights is working Dehdar could easily cut weight for 96kg but with 97kg body weight he won a medal at 102kg.

you are a bit wrong, it says top 8 + the next best weightlifter from each continent. even if top 8 are all from Asia. still one more Asian WLers will qualify so top 8 + the best from Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe and America. 8 + 5 + 1 (host/tripartite) = 14 for each weight

Tian Tao is the weirdest weightlifter I ever seen. this is happening so many times for him. he misses something and then he lifts 5kg heavier in next attempt. you never can predict anything with him. looks like he can lift the entire arena on his last attempt ! and I still wonder if China sends him to Tokyo, of course this gold medal improved his chance a lot. but still total record is lower than what Sohrab Moradi can do in a normal day. I assume Chinese coaches follow Moradi's injury news very closely to decide about their Olympic team. I'm sure they won't settle for anything less than 4 gold medals for their men's team.

Rostami bombed out. very normal. and now he is blaming the organizers (there was 4-5 minutes delay before his first attempt) 3rd time in a row he is bombing out. and our stupid federation still letting him to continue this way. and Tian Tao as usual misses 2 attempt, jump up 5kg and lifts it !

Kianoush Rostami's opening record is way too high . looking forward for another bomb out

here is my preview about the Pan American Qualifiers. I skip that 1) 2) 3) things. just keep in mind they are listed in order Freestyle 57: huge gap between USA / Cuba and the rest. even though Cuba had nobody in the worlds in this weight but they have 2 good options here. 65: again huge huge huge gap between top 2 and the rest. nobody among the rest convinced me to be 4th in the list so I left it with 3. it could be 2 actually 74: the Colombian guy (who is in fact American) can surprise top 2. 86: I assumed USA will be represented by someone better than Downey. if they send him again Cuba will be the favorite. VEN is also not that far behind them 97: I assumed Salas will be back for Cuba, still it could be only 2. I had hard time to pick more than 2 wrestlers for this weight. CRC guy is American. and not that bad. 125: Didn't list Cuba here, because in past couple of years they used Oscar Pino in this weight. now he qualified Cuba in Greco-Roman. I don't think per rules he can Cuba in another event. but with Cuba you never know. they may send someone better ! or make Mijain Lopez return the favor and qualify them in freestyle lol -------------------------- Greco 60: 67: 77: 87: 97: 130:

Not just "some good wrestlers" most of Russian top wrestlers are coming from Dagestan and even most of Russian-born wrestlers representing other countries are also from Dagestan. for example 97kg final between Sadullaev and Sharifov (AZE) was battle of Dagesntani wrestlers. good weather probably there is something in Caspian Sea about wrestling. because more than half of Iranian top wrestlers also come from the province of Mazandaran, the southern coast of Caspian Sea.

Silver in total and bronze in CJ for Ali Miri. not bad . and I'm sure in few years nobody will remember it was a non-Olympic weight and the new rule of using video challenge helped him in his 2nd CJ attempt. WL is probably the easiest sport to use the video challenge, I don't know why they were so stubborn about it until now. while most teams care about the Olympics. our coach tried to play "smart" and his team is winning medals in non-Olympic weights let's see what that idiot Rostami will do with Tian Tao tomorrow.

I searched a bit and in fact there will be "seeding system" for all Olympic qualifiers. but it will be different https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/important-updates-ranking-series-olympic-qualification-events they are going to use 3 tournaments, 2019 Worlds, 2020 Continental Champs, one Ranking series tournament in 2020. and you have to participate in two of them to be eligible to be seeded !!! and I don't think this is going to help much. for example Iran most probably will try different wrestlers for the Olympic Qualifiers and even if they send the same wrestler, this is highly unlikely to send the same guy to the Asian Championship and/or a ranking event short time before the Olympic Qualifier. I think most of top wrestling nations will do the same. it just doesn't make sense . we may end up having Chinese Taipei as top seed ! (as the only wrestler participated in two of these 3 events) and what's the point of being "seeded" when other top guys are unseeded. you still can get them right in the first round the article says only top 2 will be seeded for the Olympic qualifier but I think Olympic itself will be the same as the WCh. top 4 will be seeded. as for Asia, let's just hope Kazakhstan doesn't do the drawing