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who picks up the attempts ? coaches or weightlifters themselves ? to me it looked like he had much more in tank, he just didn't have to lift more. I mean apparently he wasn't under pressure to lift more, he only had to beat Huang Minhao. at least that's how I could feel from the competition.

I think so, he is easily top 6, looks like a medal contender in Tokyo considering he is just 21 but still I don't know how they award these wild cards, they don't necessarily give them to the best eligible athletes. btw another 1-2 finish for China, huge margin over the next guy. so I assume Chen Lijun is almost guaranteed a place in Tokyo. to me both Chen and Huang were capable of breaking the World Records here but they didn't attack it because of their own competition. Chen beat Huang by 1kg. but both of them finsihed 6 out of 6. our Pakistani friend somehow fainted in CJ and lost the total bronze by 1kg to Uzbekistan.

but I forgot something, Pakistan is eligible for a wild card and he has done enough to be eligible for that . so our Pakistani friend still can qualify for the Olympics.

His name is not in the ranking, because he missed the 2nd qualification window (2nd half of 2019)

Talha Talib did great in snatch and won the bronze with an impressive 148kg unfortunately for Pakistan, he can't qualify for the Olympics Huang Minhao equaled his Snatch world record of 155kg. he could lift more from what I saw

yes indeed, nobody knows how Chinese coaches will decide about it. they may even end up using the coin toss

no as far as I know, but I might be wrong

Kuo Hsing-Chun broke Snatch and Total World Record to win the gold medal easily at women's 59kg. obviously China is not going to send a weightlifter in this weight their girl lost by 20kg margin to Kuo

brackets are out for the whole freestyle competition interesting note, Geno Petriashvili and Taha Akgul will wrestle right in the first round also Tsabolov has his debut for Serbia here. 74kg will be very interesting with him, Zhamalov and Chamizo.

yeah something like that but the 4th guy was from Uzbekistan. so it wasn't like he was gifted a very easy medal. sometimes even a lucky medal can encourage people in that country to invest more in that specific sport.

men's freestyle medal table 3-3-2 3-2-0 1-2-4 1-1-2 1-0-3 1-0-3 0-1-3 0-1-2 0-0-1 Iran won the team title, but despite winning more gold medals, Kazakhstan lost the 2nd place to India. it was a disappointing tournament for our freestyle team. Iran won only 3 golds which is NOT a good results in 10 weights. but those 3 guys teched all of their opponents and were quite dominant. our 125kg lost by just an accident and he could tech everybody too. we were expecting at least 4 gold medals from these 4 guys but we didn't even achieve that Yazdani despite beating everybody (including world silver medalist Deepak Punia) 10-0 tried a new style. not wasting his whole energy in first 2 minutes. he was calm and just collected points without trying too much. Ghasempour also dominated 92kg, what a pity he is in the same weight as Yazdani and had to try a non-Olympic weight. he is just too good to waste his talent behind Yazdani out of 20 wrestlers we sent here (Freestyle and Greco) only Yazdani will wrestle in Tokyo for sure. Shabani (97kg gold medalist) also has a chance but there will be trials between him and Mohammadian. for the others, they had to win the gold and also be dominant to stand a chance. I assume they missed it, except 125kg guy, they will probably give him another chance.

the old one but this is not final, results from the the Polish tournament will be counted too https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/201214_ranking_fs_3.pdf https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/201214_ranking_gr_0.pdf https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/201214_ranking_ww_1.pdf

nowhere really, I know it sucks IWF used to have a good livescore system 10 years ago. looks like they really "progressed" in all aspects. the only source for the results is the live stream. and if you are lazy to watch the whole thing , just go to the last minutes and see the results

I think this is the first total medal. the same guy won a bronze in CJ last year but those individual lift medals don't really matter. even though I have to say, it was only 4 weightlifters in 55kg. still who cares. that's an achievement for Sri Lanka. ------------ China won two other golds in Olympic weights today, but no World Records. Liao Qiuyun won the women's 55kg by something like 9kg margin. still her records weren't great by Chinese standards. not sure if she secured her place in the Olympic team with that performance. and in the men's side, 61kg turned out to be "very easy" for China. Li Fabin tried the CJ World Record in his last 2 attempts but failed. he was close in his first try. still he won the gold by 26kg margin over someone from Saudi Arabia if Eko Yuli Irawan doesn't participate in Tokyo, nobody is going to threaten Li Fabin in Tokyo @Vic Liu what do you think ? is Li Fabin safe for Tokyo ?

Finalists in second day of freestyle: 61: Turobov vs Askarov 74: Kaipanov vs Hosseinkhani 86: Yazdani vs Deepak 92: Tsogtgerel vs Ghasempour 125: Lazarev vs Boltin it was a very disappointing tournament for our freestyle team. Majid Dastan at 61kg was very poor and Taheri at 125kg lost by pin to someone very weak. he was leading 6-0 and then bang got pinned. we will have 3 in the final but Yazdani and Ghasempour winning the gold was a sure thing even before the tournament. Yazdani is trying a different style here, probably preparing himself to wrestle more than just 1-2 minutes (he usually finishes his matches that fast) I just hope Deepak Punia doesn't chicken out like he had in 2019 worlds. he most probably will lose 10-0 but Yazdani needs more time on the mat. this is his first international tournament in past 2 years! (exactly since the day he beat Deepak by walkover in the worlds final)

can you guess those 4 weights China will participate ? I mean women's competition. Jiang had a crazy 125kg attempt in her last CJ try. desperate try to catch up with her teammate , obviously she failed . I think she was capable of lifting 120-122 to take back her WR again.

I could take a screenshot from the livestream , but here is the total result Hou 213 WR Jiang 207 MIrabi 205 Hou also broke the snatch WR , Mirabi Chanu broke the CJ World Record

medal table in men's freestyle after the first day 1-2-1 1-1-3 1-1-0 1-0-2 1-0-1 0-1-1 0-0-2 today we had wrestlers from in the bronze medal match, unfortunately all of them lost and as for Iran, it was a terrible terrible day, very disappointing. our 57kg and 65kg wrestlers lost to world class wrestlers, that was expected. but Hosseini (70) and Savadkouhi (79) lost to wrestlers much weaker than themselves. we brought our best wrestlers in non-Olympic weights (unlike most of the Olympic weights) and they were terrible here. Shaabani dominated the competition to win the gold, good for him. I believe he and Mohammadian are almost in the same level. it will be hard to pick one of them for the Olympics but Mohammadian has the upper hand now.

first world record in first event kind of funny if someone breaks the world record and still doesn't get selected for the Olympics team in her own country. thanks to WL qualification rules.

Finalists in first day of freestyle: 57: Ravi vs Sarlak 65: Bajrang vs Otoguro 70: Khasanov vs Talgat 79: Gong vs Savadkouhi 97: Yergali vs Shabani 65kg final between old rivals will be match of the competition. for Iran, our 70kg guy was extremely disappointing Ghiasi at 65kg also got manhandled by Otoguro in the semifinal. he is a very poor wrestler and I wasn't expecting anything more from him. the other 3 made it to the final. I believe Savadkouhi and Shabani will win the gold. Sarlak will be underdog against the world bronze medalist.

India lost the women's team title to Mongolia by just 5 points, it came down to the 65kg final between MGL and IND and the Olympic bronze medalist Sakshi Malik got pinned early in the match to gift the title to Mongolia. women's FS medal table 4-1-2 2-4-1 2-1-3 2-1-1 0-2-1 0-1-0 0-0-2

you are probably right, but that's the point, nobody knows that change for sure. what if they only make exceptions for Oceania athletes ? in short, whoever misses the continental championships will miss the Olympics most probably.

Start list https://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2021/04/2020_ASIAN_CH_TASHKENT_UZB_START_BOOK.pdf some Asian top weightlifters are absent here, if I understand the rules correctly. everybody has to participate in one event in the new window to be eligible. they may change the rule since the Oceania Champs is cancelled, but if the rule stands, whoever doesn't participate at the Asian Champs won't be eligible to qualify unless he participates in the last renaming event in Colombia which is unlikely. how he hell someone ignores the Asian Champs in Uzbekistan to participate in Colombia (and that event in Colombia is not even a sure thing) no need to say that PRK is not participating some missing names. most importantly Irawan (61kg) without him, there is nobody to challenge China for the gold in this weight. and an interesting name in the list is Ruslan Nurudinov. 2016 Olympic Champion who is back after serving 2 years ban for his doping case in 2012 !

Medalists from the first day of women's competition, only 1 bronze medal since we had less than 8 wrestlers in all events. 50: 1) Islamova 2) Immaeva 3) Seema 55: 1) Dulguun 2) Usmonjonova 3) Ualishan 59: 1) Sarita 2) Shoovdor 3) Anarkulova 68: 1) Zhumanazarova 2) Delgermaa 3) Jeong 76: 1) Syzdykova 2) Medet Kyzy 3) Pooja and without both China and Japan, Asia will have a new team champion in women's wrestling, Kazakhstan or Mongolia, or maybe India.

the new Sadulaev is a bit conservative, he scores 3 or 4 and wins 3-0 or 4-0. some people think he is getting weaker but I don't think so, he just doesn't care about the scoreboard anymore. he wants the win with less possible risks. some wrestlers scored 1 or 2 against him "made him angry" and he destroyed them later