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Lesman and Meso – Champions of Day 8 of the 2022 Asian Championships

The program of 8th day at the 2022 Asian Championships included the Men 96kg and the Men 102kg categories, where in both categories an IWF Ambassador Athlete became the Asian Champion. Men 96kg category This was the first competition of Lesman Parades Montano current M96kg Snatch World Record holder under the nationality of Bahrain, after changing it from Colombian and also the first competition after a surgery. His result couldn't have been better as he right away won the Snatch Gold with 182kg, which was just 5 kg below his record of 187kg and then became the Asian Champion in Total with 397kg. This shows great prospects regarding his performance for the 2022 IWF World Championships which will be held in December in Bogota, Colombia. Silver Snatch medal went to Po-Jen Chen (TPE) with 177kg who placed 5th at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Finally Nurgissa Adiletuly (KAZ) finished the podium with his second lift of 172kg. In Clean&Jerk Artyom Antropov (KAZ) proved to be the strongest with 219kg. Lesman collected a Silver medal with 215kg which was his personal best at international competition. The C&J podium was completed with Chen with his third lift of 206kg. The Total Podium of the category was as follows: Lesman Paredes Montano (BRN) - 397kg Po-Jen Chen (TPE) - 383kg Artyom Antropov (KAZ) - 377kg Lesman Paredes Montano (BRN) - Snatch 1st attempt @Bahrain Weightlifting Federation Men 102kg category This category featured Tokyo 2020 Champion in M96kg, Fares Elbakh, who due to the new Olympic bodyweight categories went up to 102kg.  The Gold medal in Snatch went to Sharofiddin Amriddinov (UZB), 2022 Junior World Champion in 102kg, with 172kg, Fares Elbakh (QAT) finished at 2nd place with 171kg, and Reza Dehdar took Bronze with 170kg. In C&J Amriddinov added a Bronze medal to his collection with 196kg which he lifted on his second attempt. The competition between the two strongest in C&J became interesting after both Dehdar and Elbakh made a successful first lift (202kg and 215kg). Dehdar with his team decided to increase his next lift to 230kg for which the answer of the team of Elbakh was to increase to 235kg. Of course as they weights were to big for both as it was only a strategy, Dehdar had to decrease to 221kg which he tried to lift and then 222kg on his third attempt but both were unsuccessful. As Elbakh already won with his first lift he declined all his remaining attempts and collected the Gold medal. Total Podium of the Men 102kg category: Fares Elbakh (QAT) - 386kg Reza Dehdar (IRI) - 372kg Sharofiddin Amriddinov (UZB) - 368kg Men 102kg Total Podium @Bahrain Weightlifting Federation The last day tomorrow will feature the Men 109kg, the Women +87kg and the Men +109kg

Day 7 – 2022 Asian Championship

The seventh day featured two female categories, the Women 81kg and Women 87kg categories. Women 81kg category In the Snatch portion of the Women 81kg category the medalist were as follows: Seyedehelham Hosseini (IRI) became the Asian Champion with 102kg, second place went to Motoka Nakajima (JPN) with 100kg and the last medal of Snatch was collected by Rigina Adashbaeva (UZB) with 97kg. In Cleand&Jerk the competition was a close one between the medalist. Hosseini won another Asian Champion title with her second lift of 125kg, Aisha Omarova (KAZ) made a Silver medal finish with 124kg and Nakajima completed the podium with her lift of 123kg. Total podium of the Women 81kg category: Seyedehelham Hosseini (IRI) - 227kg Motoka Nakajima (JPN) - 223kg Aisha Omarova (KAZ) - 217kg Women 81kg Total Podium @Bahrain Weightlifting Federation Women 87kg category In the Women 87kg category, Ankhtsetseg Munkhjantsan from Mongolia became the overall winner as with her lifts of 114kg-135kg-249kg collected all three Gold medals.  The other medalist in Snatch were Tursonoy Jabborova from Uzbekistan who placed 2nd with 112kg and Ying-Yuan Lo from Chinese Taipei who finished at 3rd place with 110kg. In case of C&J the two teammates from Chinese Taipei, Lo and Chia-Hsin Tian made a podium finish with 133kg and 131kg.  Women 87kg Total Podium was as follows:  Ankhtsetseg Munkhjantsan (MGL) - 249kg Ying-Yuan Lo (TPE) - 243kg Tursunoy Jabborova (UZB) - 242kg Women 87kg Total Podium @Bahrain Weightlifting

Day 6 – 2022 Asian Championships

On day 6 of the 2022 Asian Championships the action continued with Men 89kg and the Women 76kg categories. Men 89kg category The day started with the Men 89kg category where 15 Athletes were competing for the Asian Champion titles. In Snatch, Emil Moldodosov (KGZ) won with 166kg, which was his all time best at international competition. Silver medal went to Assylzhan Bektay (KAZ) with 165kg. Mohammad Zarei (IRI) made the same best lift however as he did it later, he could only take the Bronze medal. In C&J Bektay made a winning lift of 197kg, Masoud Chatrei (IRI) went home with a Silver medal with his lift of 196kg and Moldodosov collected a Bronze with 195kg. The Total podium was as follows: Assylzhan Bektay (KAZ) – 362kg Emil Moldodosov (KGZ) – 361kg Masoud Chatraei (IRI) – 358kg Men 89kg Total Podium @Bahrain Weightlifting Federation Women 76kg category The last competition of the day was the Women 76kg category.  In Snatch, the clear winner was Cuiting Peng (CHN) whose starting lift was 17kgs more than the Silver medalist's best lift, therefore she took Gold with her only good attempt of 115kg. Darkhijav Otgonbayar (MGL) placed second with 98kg and Aray Nurlybekova (KAZ) the third with 97kg. In the C&J portion of the category once again Peng won Gold with 128kg, Silver went to Duangkamon Khongthong (THA) with 125kg, and Nurlybekova added another Bronze medal to her collection with 124kg. Women 76kg Total medalists: Cuiting Peng (CHN) - 243kg Aray Nurlybekova (KAZ) - 221kg Duangkamon Khongthong (THA) - 221kg    Cuiting Peng (CHN) @Bahrain Weightlifting

Fifth day of the 2022 Asian Championships

On the fifth day of competition it was time for the Women 71kg and Men 81kg categories. Women 71kg category The day started with Group B of this category and followed by the Group A where alltogether 13 athletes were competing. In the Snatch portion of the category, Chinese athlete Qiuxia Yang at her first international event since 2017 took the Gold medal with 106kg. Silver medal went to Gulnabat Kadyrova from Turkmenistan with 102kg, and Anuujin Ganzorig from Mongolia took Bronze with 99kg. In C&J, the two teammates, Tsabitha Alfiah Ramadani and Restu Anggi from Indonesia placed third and second with 118kg, 120kg. The winner was once again Yang with her second lift of 122kg. Total medalist: Qiuxia Yang (CHN) - 228kg Gulnabat Kadyrova (TKM) - 219kg Anuujin Ganzorig (MGL) - 215kg Women 71kg Total Podium @Bahrain Weightlifting Federation Men 81kg category After yesteday's B Group, the A Group finished the fifth day of competition. This session included Rahmat Erwin Abdullah Tokyo 2020 Bronze medalist and World Champion of the M73kg category. In Snatch, the Bronze medal was won by Rahmat Erwin Abdullah (INA) with his second attempt of 151kg. Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov (UZB) placed 2nd with his first lift of 154kg, after his two last lifts were unsuccessful. The clear winner was Delin Lu (CHN) who didn't leave any chance for the others and with 165kg won the Snatch Gold. In C&J, two athletes from Uzbekistan made a the podium finish: Ogabek Tukhtaev lifted 189kg and earned Bronze, while Toshtemirov collected his second Silver of the day with 192kg. Erwin Abdullah after performing his best C&J at international competition with 198kg finished at 1st place. The Men 81kg Total Podium was as follows: Delin Lu (CHN) - 353kg Rahmat Erwin Abdullah (INA) - 349kg Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov (UZB) - 346kg Rahmat Erwin Abdullah (INA) @IWF Tomorrow it will be time for the Men 89kg and Women 76kg

Day 4 at the 2022 Asian Championships

The fourth day in Manama started with the Men 81kg (Group B) which will have its Group A tomorrow. The action of the day continued with the Women 64kg and Men 73kg categories. Women 64kg category In the first A session of the day Pham Thi Hong Thanh from Vietnam won confidently as she only started both Snatch and Clean&Jerk when all the other athletes finished with their attempts. The winning Snatch and Clean&Jerk was 100kg and 117kg.  In case of Snatch, Thipwara Chontavin from Thailand won Silver with 91kg, while in C&J Sarah from Indonesia placed second with 112kg. Finally the Bronze of Snatch went to Sarah with 89kg, and Wei-Chia Li from Chinese Taipei collected the C&J medal with 111kg. Total Podium of the category: Pham Thi Hong Thanh (VIE) - 217kg Thipwara Chontavin (THA) - 201kg Sarah (INA) - 201kg Pham Thi Hong Thanh (VIE) @IWF Men 73kg category In the Snatch portion of the category we almost witnessed the first World Record (Junior) when Rizki Juniansyah almost broke his own record with the attempt of 158kg but it was a no lift. Even though he didn't accomplish a new World Record he won the category by 9kgs with the lift of 152kg. Second place went to Shulin Xiang from China with 143kg and Doston Yokubov from Uzbekistan completed the Snatch podium with 140kg. The biggest suprise of the category came when Juniansyah bombed out as he tried to lift 186kg three times but he was unsuccessful in all his attempts. This gave the chance for M67kg World Champion, Yokubov who with 182kg became Asian Champion. Xiang added another Silver medal to his collection with his only one good lift of 178kg, and Nawaf Almazyadi from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia finished at third place with 170kg. Total Podium of the category: Doston Yokubov (UZB) - 322kg Shulin Xiang (CHN) - 321kg Nawaf Almazyadi (KSA) - 309kg Doston Yokubov (UZB) @Bahrain Weightlifting Federation The 5th day of the competition will feature the Women 71kg and Men 81kg

Gold Medal for China and Uzbekistan -Third Day at the 2022 Asian Championships

The third day of the 2022 Asian Championships featured the Women 59kg and Men 67kg categories. Women 59kg category The Women 59kg started the day in Manama on the third day of the competition where 9 athletes were competiting for the Asian Championships titles.  In the Snatch portion of the program Quang Thi Tam (VIE) with only one good lift (93kg) took Gold. Her best was 4kg more than what she lifted at this years Asian Junior Championships where she also won. Second place went to Enkhtamir Enkhbaatar (MGL) who went 3-from-3 with her best lift being 92kg. The Snatch podium was completed by Xue Long (CHN) who lifted 91kg at her first international competition. In Clean&Jerk, Thi Tam won Bronze with 115kg. While she tried to lift 119kg on her third attempt - which lift would have brought her the Gold in both C&J and Total - sadly it was a no lift. Second place went to Natasya Beteyob (INA) with 116kg and the Asian Champion title went to Xue Long after on her last attempt she could manage 118kg. Women 59kg Total Podium: Xue Long (CHN) - 209kg Quang Thi Tam (VIE) - 208kg Natasya Beteyob (INA) - 205kg Women 59kg Total Podium @Bahrain Weightlifting Federation Men 67kg category The last category of the day was the Men 67kg one which started at 18:30 local time. In this category the ranking of the medalist remained the same throughout the competition: Uzbek athlete Adkhamjon Ergashev won it all with 138-176-314kg, Mohammad Yasin from Indonesia took Silver with 137-166-303kg, while Anucha Doungsri from Thailand placed third with 136-165-301kg. Adkhamjon Ergashev (UZB) @IWF Tomorrow the action continues with the Men 81kg (Group B), the Women 64kg and Men 73kg categories featuring 2021 IWF World Champion Doston Yokubov (UZB) and current Junior World Record holder Rizki Juniansyah