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2015 Chinese Summer Test Event

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Meanwhile in China…

More videos from the Chinese Test Event have surfaced, including some summer training.

Thanks to yangyang’s instagram we have more footage from the event.

Update

12.09.2015: Yangyang delivers Chen Lijun’s 182kg Clean and Jerk!

09.09.2015: More updates from yangyang! 165kg Long Qingquan Clean and Jerk, 175kg Lu Xiaojun Snatch.

06.09.2015: Yangyang uploads Tian Tao snatching 170kg

05.09.2015: Yangyang uploaded Chen Lijun’s 154kg Snatch and Lu Haojies(77kg) 165kg Snatch.

Check out:

  • Wu Jingbiao(56kg), 138kg Snatch (matches world record)
  • Lu Xiaojun(77kg), 175kg Snatch, 300kg Squat attempt
  • Chen Lijun(62kg), 150kg 154kg Snatch (matches WR), 177kg Clean and Jerk
  • Liu Hao(94kg), 180kg Snatch
  • Long Qingquan(56kg), 130kg Snatch, 165kg Clean and Jerk

Thanks to ATG reader Victor the news coverage and Tian Tao’s weibo has been translated:

  1. Liao Hui is in the military; he had a mission earlier that day so he could not compete but arrived later to watch.
  2. They didn’t have to make weight.
  3. Liu Hao: 180 snatch
  4. Chen Lijun: 145 + 177, says he hopes to do 330 in Houston to give Kim Unguk some competition (though I don’t see how since he only did 322 at home without losing weight. However, it is worthy to note that although it only shows him getting 145 and 177, those may not be his final scores since the reporter said something about Chen Lijun surpassing the WR at this event. The way it was said, it is uncertain whether he did or simply carried a disposition to do so later.)
  5. Lu Xiaojun (175 snatch) and Long Qingquan (165 C&J) did not perform well as they went 2/6 (no bomb outs). Yujie said he will spend the last 2 months before Houston getting them to lift more consistently.
  6. Tian Tao sustained a lower back injury and did not train for 3 weeks. He said that the injury flared up again at the test of strength. At the rate that Tian Tao is progressing, basically, injury is the greatest threat to his gold in Rio. But I’m also amazed that with an injured back and 3 weeks without training (strictly speaking, it says no training for 3 weeks but I find it hard to believe he didn’t do some light stuff), he cleaned 220 with ease and came very close to jerking it.

/u/dirtyid from reddit also posted a translation: “Lu’s best backsquat is 305kg.”

Lu’s 300kg Back Squat Attempt

Lu’s 175kg Snatch, Liu’s 180kg Snatch, Chen’s 177kg Clean and Jerk, Long’s 165kg Clean and Jerk

Chen Lijun’s 154kg Snatch & 182kg Clean and Jerk (both match the current WR)

Wu JingBiao 138kg Snatch (same weight as Halil Mutlu’s world record)

Long Qingquan 130kg Snatch, 165kg Clean and jerk

Lu Haojie(77kg) 165kg Snatch

Tian Tao’s 170kg Snatch

Previously: Tian Tao 220kg Clean and Jerk attempt.

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Comments

  1. wlift84 says

    Bodyweights for the test event (Yang Yang had a shot of the scoreboard):

    Long Qingquan 58.5
    Wu Jingbiao 59.6
    Meng Cheng 58.4
    Long Decheng 58.5
    Chen Lijun 65.4
    Huang
    Minhao 65.6
    Lu Xiaojun 78.5
    Lu Haojie 78.4
    Tian Tao 88.1
    Liu Hao 100.0
    Yang Zhe 106.5
    Wu
    Changsheng 108.0

    • Victor says

      He matched both WR’s?? That’s supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! After Incheon, I really thought there was no way Chen Lijun could even try to challenge Kim Unguk’s record…

    • Victor says

      It also says that despite Chen Lijun winning the nationals, his score of merely 320kg meant that his spot in Houston was in jeopardy (since this did not give much hope of victory over Kim Unguk). This test event was crucial to his securing his spot. Also, his 154 is actually a PR for him. In this current training period, his snatch had skyrocketed. Previously, his PR was 148, a weight that he had made only once. Now, his snatches 150+ easily and causally.