Meanwhile in China …
Time for the 2015 Chinese Weightlifting Nationals (see 2014 here).
As was pointed out in earlier check ins with the team, there won’t be any any free passes this year. That means we will get to see the big names show up! As usual the men go first. Women will compete in May.
This should be an exciting week! I will update this page throughout the week.
69kg Addendum: Feng Ludong’s 162kg Snatch at 69kg.
Apart from Liao Hui, this is the highest weight any 69kg lifter has snatched since the 2000 Olympics!
Chinese Nationals: Feng Ludong's 162kg Snatch at 69kg.Apart from Liao Hui, this is the highest weight any 69kg lifter has snatched since the 2000 Olympics!https://allthingsgym.com/2015-chinese-weightlifting-nationals/Thanks to wlift84 for the clip: https://www.youtube.com/user/wlift84/videos
Posted by All Things Gym on Saturday, April 25, 2015
+105kg
- Ai Yunan 196/235/431
- Sun Kai
- Liu Guohui
105kg
- Yang Zhe 180/220/400
- Cao Shiwei 170/207/377
- Zhang Xiliang 173/204/377 (bw)
- Wu Changsheng 165/207/372
- Di Xianglong 171/201/372 (bw)
- Zeng Qingyu 167/204/371
105kg Full Recording:
Short Yang Zhe Interview: Translation from Victor:
I could not get any respectable amount of training done this winter due to injuries. I have never been plagued by so many injuries before. Even without weight on me, my knees can barely operate freely. My next goal is to recover and condition my body to resist these injuries from returning.”
94kg
- won by Liu Hao 176/215/391
- Tian Ye
- Zhang Huacong
94kg Highlights: Translation from LL
He said he managed to improve his snatch by quite a bit, and he is getting more confident about 180kg snatch (not too sure if I got this right).
The reporter asked him why he is unhappy with his results even though his total was so much more compared to second place.
He said he shouldn’t compete with the rest of the (chinese 94kg lifters) field because they are his (little) friends/brothers (i think he meant training partners?).
He has to bring China’s 94kg lifting category to a level that is able to compete with the rest of the world. His aim is to improve the standard of the other 94kg Chinese lifters, such that China has a place in the world stage.
85kg
Tian Tao , 170, 175, misses 181, 210, missed 219
All Tian Tao Lifts:
Chinese Nationals: All Tian Tao Lifts (85kg)Snatch: 170, 175, x181Clean & Jerk: 210, x219https://allthingsgym.com/2015-chinese-weightlifting-nationals/
Posted by All Things Gym on Thursday, April 23, 2015
Results:
- Tian Tao 175/210/385
- Chang Xuechuang 161/200/361
- Zhao Yongchao 160/200/360
- Zhang Ke 163/196/359
- Tan Biao 155/196/351
- Cao Gang 155/196/351 (bw)
Short Tian Tao Interview: Translation from Victor.
In his interview, he says he refuses to take 215 because it’s pointless to him and he can’t get excited about it.
Natural progression would be 210, 215, 219, but he said he only wanted the 219 and that if he keeps trying, one day, that weight will fall to him. He also says that his body was soft and his rhythm was off. It is unclear if he was talking about a specific lift or his overall performance.
Possibly, he was referring to his 210 because he said he was worried that if he missed his opener, it would be difficult to decide what to do from there.
85kg Full Recording:
From reader Yuen:
So from the Tian Tao’s performance, the commentators said that he has improved his snatch overall (quite clearly) and as long as he could snatch above 175 consistently for next few championship meetings (including Rio) he could easily win the gold for China. (but they’re more particular with the Olympic gold) Nonetheless, they also mentioned that Tian’s C&J has reached 230kg in training. Yup 230, not 220. Lol. So now its more about consistency and improving his snatch overall.
77kg
- Su Ying 170/200/370
- Lu Xiaojun 170/200/370
- Lu Haojie 165/197/362
- Caoshi Jiaqi 168/191/359
- Zhong Guoshun 165/190/355
- Feng Yubin 161/187/348
Lu Xiaojun says he was only at 80-90% because although his strength training was sufficient, his consistency training was not.
Also, interestingly, Su Ying, Feng Ludong, and Shi Zhiyong are all Zhejiang locals competing at home, which may contribute to their great success so far.
69kg
- Shi Zhiyong 157/195/352
- Feng Ludong 162/188/350
- Wu Chao 155/190/345
- Lin Qinfeng 155/188/343
- Liang Chenxi 153/183/336
- Xin Qiaohui 150/183/333
- Liao Hui bombs with x160, x160, x161 in the Snatch
Short Liao Hui Interview
Translation from Victor.
The preparation today was going very well, but the training prior to this period was not my best.
My mind wasn’t really there today. I opened too high and attacked the weight with my body a bit soft. I didn’t do the clean and jerk because you need a total for it to be meaningful and there was the concern that if my mentality wasn’t suitable for lifting this day, I would injure myself on the clean and jerk.
He wasn’t speaking like he was all there either. I think he meant that things in the warm-up room were going too well, which caused them to up his opener to 160 but he may have expended too much energy in the backroom and caused this situation to happen.
69kg Full Recording: Liao Hui at 53:40
62kg
- Winner: Chen Lijun 146/174/320.
- Zhang Jie 145/173/318
- Lei Haitao 137/173/310
56kg
Starts off with a bang! Full Recordings below.
Wu Jingbiao snatches 139kg for an unofficial World Record in the 56kg (unofficial because it’s not a IWF sanctioned meet).
Update: from Victor
Interesting tidbits from the snatch video:
- Cheng Meng performs excellently in training, but his personality is unsuited for competition as he loses his confidence and swag when he competes. He also may have some small injuries.
- On 4/2, Long Qingquan became a father and he has yet to see his child due to preparation for this competition.
- Chen Lijun is now under YuJie.
- The 135 snatch opener is the highest opener that anyone in the world has posted for the 56kg.
- In training, Wu Jingbiao attempts 5 consecutive snatches at 140kg and usually succeeds in 4.
- As Yujie took the reins of Chinese weightlifting, he has come up with a new system that divides top lifters into 3 groups. The system is aimed at inspiring competition while also fostering cooperation and was created to combat the recent threats on the international stage that challenge Chinese weightlifting dominance.
Points from the clean and jerk:
- After getting only bronze in Incheon, Wu Jingbiao deeply reflected with his coaches on the many points of his weaknesses and set out to correct each one.
- In his recent training, Wu Jingbiao often and consistently clean&jerks 170kg (so that 167 final lift was not some crazy BS that he wouldn’t even be able to rack like we all would have thought a couple months ago).
56kg Results:
- Wu Jingbiao 139/163/302
- Long Qingquan 133/165/298
- Li Fabin 131/158/289
- Deng Changmin 127/160/287
- Long Decheng 126/160/286
- Meng Cheng 128/152/280
On another note, the 56kg clean and jerk video told us that Lu Yong, who is in attendance, is now the vice chair of Guangdong’s athletic department.
56kg Full Recording:
Short news piece about the nationals. Translation from Victor:
The 2015 nationals will take place in Zhejiang, at the training center opened in the name of Zhan Xugang.
While most people may take a day or even 2 off before competition, Wu Jingbiao decided to train in the morning before his meet.
Wu says, “I just did some light, jerk-related exercises, nothing that can sap my energy for later. It’s my habit to train. Actually, among myself, Long Qingquan, and Li Fabin, we are close to equal and it all depends on who is able to better bring out his training on this day. I am not nervous. It will be very interesting.”
The reporter notes that Wu Jingbiao’s outlook towards competition has changed with the years.
@unofficial world record in 56 kg category: Very strong lift. China is THE powerhouse in weightlifting. Russia doesn’t stand a chance at the moment.
China and Russia have very little class-overlap in the men’s. The 56 is still way open for a 3-nation match among China, Vietnam, and North Korea. It’s hard for me to get too excited about Wu’s performance because he’s done 137+163 before in 2012 and lost over 10 kg of it when he lifted internationally, and that was peaking for the Olympics too. Maybe Long Qingquan is still more solid, and might improve more. Cheng Meng’s results are very disappointing; it’s his time to explode like Khugaev and he’s actually lost weight in his clean and jerk.
Sorry, didn’t see the response. It’s pitty that one cannot sort responses by date.
Well that is still somewhat true, although it seems to me that the winner in the super heavyweight category of the chinese nationals didn’t do much worse than Chingiz. Okay, I assume Chingiz had a really bad day. Failing with 235 in the clean and jerk is very strange for a super.
However, my point stands when just looking at Olympics. One gold in 2004 for Russia, China won almost everything up to 77 kg.
I hope that the russian athletes will perform better in future. Very often they disappoint or are hurt all the time. Maybe they should hire the coach from Kazakhstan. There was an interesting article about their training and they do very well.
Even in the lighter weightclasses China’s dominance is slipping. Best Korea has been dominant in 56/62 and will even challenge in 77s. I think Rio will be a fantastic competition, I personally have Tach winning. The only weightclass that they simply have no competition is 69.
I wonder what Thach could do as 62kg. He seems to tall for 56kg right now.
He is 1.60 m tall. More convenient for 62 kg class.
Wu Jingbiao is also 1.63m according to his London 2012 profile. Li Fabin seems to be at 1.60m as well, standing next to him.
That true, look at the difference 🙂 Om 1.52, Hristov 1.56
It’s going to be interesting to see the results. I hope for some nice lifting in the heavier classes as well.
Wu Jingbiao??? 139+163??? I seriously thought the dude was dead, never to clean over 160 again! I thought Long might break records since he’s been talking a lot of smack about being stronger than he ever was under Yujie. This is a shocker!!
Let’s not forget Long with 298 from 3/6. Back to his 2009/2010 form where he totaled 300+ nationally. From the current perspective it looks like China will send both to challenge Om and Thach at 56. Rio could very well become the best 56kg Olympics ever with three to four guys with near 300 totals lifting. Previously it was only one (or two if you count the Friendship Games 84) who could lift in those regions, the rest behind.
News video main points translation: The 2015 nationals will take place in Zhejiang, at the training center opened in the name of Zhan Xugang. While most people may take a day or even 2 off before competition, Wu Jingbiao decided to train in the morning before his meet. Wu says, “I just did some light, jerk-related exercises, nothing that can sap my energy for later. It’s my habit to train. Actually, among myself, Long Qingquan, and Li Fabin, we are close to equal and it all depends on who is able to better bring out his training on this day. I am not nervous. It will be very interesting.” The reporter notes that Wu Jingbiao’s outlook towards competition has changed with the years.
Interesting about his little pre competition training session.
Interesting tidbits from the snatch video:
1. Cheng Meng performs excellently in training, but his personality is unsuited for competition as he loses his confidence and swag when he competes. He also may have some small injuries.
2. On 4/2, Long Qingquan became a father and he has yet to see his child due to preparation for this competition.
3. Chen Lijun is now under YuJie.
4. The 135 snatch opener is the highest opener that anyone in the world has posted for the 56kg.
5. In training, Wu Jingbiao attempts 5 consecutive snatches at 140kg and usually succeeds in 4.
6. As Yujie took the reins of Chinese weightlifting, he has come up with a new system that divides top lifters into 3 groups. The system is aimed at inspiring competition while also fostering cooperation and was created to combat the recent threats on the international stage that challenge Chinese weightlifting dominance.
Holy cow, awesome info right here!
Points from the clean and jerk:
1. After getting only bronze in Incheon, Wu Jingbiao deeply reflected with his coaches on the many points of his weaknesses and set out to correct each one.
2. In his recent training, Wu Jingbiao often and consistently clean&jerks 170kg (so that 167 final lift was not some crazy BS that he wouldn’t even be able to rack like we all would have thought a couple months ago LOL).
godamn wu jingbiao!!!
Surprising info on Cheng Mengs competition attitude .. from the outside his performance at the Youth Olympics had “BOSS” written all over it.
I thought the same. He looked very confident on all his lifts.
Some people have boss attitude only when they are boss. When he’s in a competition fighting for bronze, he may not feel like he’s got anything to be boss about…
anyone know how Zhang Jie did in the 62s?
I heard during the 2013 Chinese games, Zhang Jie upped himself to 69 but didn’t compete due to wrist injury. If it’s true, why anyone would voluntarily waddle into Liao Hui’s territory is beyond me. But then again, anything can happen. If someone told me yesterday he thought Wu Jingbiao would clean 167, I would have wagered my house for an M&M against that bet LOL
…but Zhang Jie lifted as 62 in the 2013 NG?
Was it national trials then? There was 1 that he missed because of wrist injury and they say he planned to lift in in 69. I don’t think it was 2014 national trials, though it may have been.
He lifted in Spring 2013 as 62 so it has to be 2014. He didn’t appear on camera last year and the only report of him moving up to 69 I could google is also from that time.
He got silver but I’ve not seen his lifts or numbers.
Oh, he went back down to 62. Ok, thanks for the confirmation. I was wondering too.
The news bit you posted on youtube says Zhang Jie totalled 318. Didn’t give the breakdown nor Lai Haitao’s score.
Would like to know what the startlist looked like. Lai with bronze seems off since he only did 285 last year. Wonder if Ding Jianjun, Yu Tao, Huang Minhao or Chen Hongqing even lifted.
There were a LOT of misses in the 62kg class.
Thanks for all the additional information.
He did 145/173.
Jesus has bombed X_X WHY?!??!?!
Seriously!? Man, I’ve been lurking on ATG for a long time but Liao Hui bombing just made me post a comment for the first time. This is huge! Does this means he’s not going to the World Championships? Is there any other way for him to qualify? Oh man. I wonder what Yu Jie is thinking now. Oh well. I hope Tian Tao wins. Been idolizing him for a few years now.
As long as he proves himself in fall nationals, he should be fine
Hopefully he does. What sad timing to just have a bad day or maybe his peaking is off for one reason or the other.
Did he perform in C&J?
Wow. Just watched the actual footage. He seemed a little less confident than usual. I wonder what was going on.
Funny thing is at the last attempt, Yu Jie was smiling, thinking “meh, off day, 160 looked close, good enough”. Liao’s a legend 3X WWC Gold, Olympic Gold in 08, JWR and Senior Word Record Holder. That said, legends beforehand have been picked over. Zhang Guozheng (04 gold medalist), in fact, even though he totaled 340 something, was not chosen to go to Beijing. Liao Hui at the time, received the last spot over Zhang.
Zhang Guozheng did not total in the Beijing trials. Liao Hui did 355, Shi Zhiyong 346.
http://sports.sohu.com/20080422/n256448168.shtml
LOL There is a video, though I can’t find it at the moment, when Zhang Guozheng bombed the clean and jerk and was walking backstage, the camera catches him at exactly the right moment and you hear him clearly saying, “Bombed out… fvck your mother. No way to keep living.” LOL
https://youtu.be/xiH0ZSsbS6Y?t=2m19s
Right on. Thanks, Steve!
My bad, I think I’m confusing it for his total in Chiang Mai.
It ain’t the worst thing for Liao Hui to sit out for 1 World’s, though I do wanna see him go to Rio and become double Olympic Champion. Oleg Chen once said that Liao Hui was unreal but if any other Chinese 69 shows up, he would be able to fight for gold. Let’s see if he still thinks that way when Shi Zhiyong or Feng Ludong show up and totals over 350 LOL
LOL! True. Just got home and am going through all the footage now. Man, Shi Zhiyong was just epic. Looking forward to watching the 77kg and 85kg classes when footage is up. I read/heard an interview somewhere wherein one of the Chinese national team members (can’t remember who) said that after winning Nationals, international comps were usually just a matter of formality. Still, I want to see Tian Tao win the 85kg division. I hope Su Ying goes to World’s and glad to see Lu Haojie putting up good numbers after struggling with injuries for so long.
I remember Su Dajin saying that after the 2009 nationals, but also heard it from elsewhere as well *I think*.
Less tears for Liao Hui and more fawning over Shi and Feng please! 350(+) totals are huge. The 162 snatch and 195 jerk have to be the highest (apart from Liao) in a decade.
I agree, and an amazing number of attempts at 190 kg or more in the clean and jerk, by quite a few lifters. So many world class lifters from China that never seem to make it to the international arena.
I also agree. As per history, it does seem like the spring games will be followed by the fall games. Do you know if winners here will be selected for WWC 2015?
Traditionally the international teams seem to be selected on Nationals results (the main nationals in Spring like this), or in National Games years (every four years, one year after Olympics) the winner of the NG will go to worlds.
But there are some exceptions in the past, so I can imagine Liao Hui going to the WWC anyway.
Liao Hui interview: The preparation today was going very well, but the training prior to this period was not my best. My mind wasn’t really there today. I opened too high and attacked the weight with my body a bit soft. I didn’t do the clean and jerk because you need a total for it to be meaningful and there was the concern that if my mentality wasn’t suitable for lifting this day, I would injure myself on the clean and jerk.
He wasn’t speaking like he was all there either. I think he meant that things in the warm-up room were going too well, which caused them to up his opener to 160 but he may have expended too much energy in the backroom and caused this situation to happen.
That said, this isn’t the first time Liao Hui bombed. He did this exact same thing before and did not do the clean and jerk either, though that was closer to the start of his career. Looking at the numbers in these competitions, I would say YuJie’s new system works. There are remarkable group improvements in the 56 and 69, not so much in the 62, and can’t tell without more data in the 77. However, it seems that the most notable athletes who did not experience a huge jump from this new method are YuJie’s own vaunted athletes returning from Hainan! Doubtless it remains, though, he is a masterful coach. Looking at history, YuJie’s athletes are usually relatively conservative at the nationals as compared to how they lift at the Worlds or Olys. I wonder if it’s just a matter of how they peak the lifters. While others decided to peak them for the nationals, YuJie won’t peak them until they get to international competition. In any case, I sure hope it’s not because Liao Hui lost his drive since triple-sweeping the 69 world records…
Even though Lu has been dominating the 77 kg’s, I’d rather see more Haojie and Zhong Guoshun given chances and now it looks like they might have the ability to get world team spots. Good stuff
Speaking of, anyone know what happened to Zhong Guoshun? Man, can’t wait for those recordings.
Its unbelievable what these guys are doing! Shame they cant send 3 lifters / category.
Good point. IWF should consider giving a free pass to previous year world champion in each division. This means certain countries can enter more than eight lifters. Countries could declare which 8 athletes they want their scores to count for overall team championship.
IOC has screwed strength/power sports such as weightlifting, wrestling, t
Taekwondo and countries can not even enter athletes in all weight divisions.
Why Lu Haoije still in 77 kg division?
Terrific clean technique from Wu Jingbiao. Very efficient use of leg strength. His max front squat can’t be much higher.
Hats off to Li Fabin, nice fight from him
Watched Su Ying’s lifts from last year’s Junior World’s. I have to say, the guy is HUGE. Lol. Looks just as big as Lu Xiaojun. Future is looking bright for this guy. Can’t wait for recordings of the 77kg to be up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2cP3vnrCho
In this video, Lu Xiaojun says he was only at 80-90% because although his strength training was sufficient, his consistency training was not. I assume this applied to all of Yujie’s team since so far, none of them have had a high success rate. I thought Yujie doesn’t peak his team for nationals and this seems to confirm it. So sadly, we may not see anything like the 175+220 that we hope to see from Tian Tao. Maybe 167+205 or something, I think.
Also, interestingly, Su Ying, Feng Ludong, and Shi Zhiyong are all Zhejiang locals competing at home, which may contribute to their great success so far.
On another note, the 56kg clean and jerk video told us that Lu Yong, who is in attendance, is now the vice chair of Guangdong’s athletic department.
This is good information and glad to hear Lu Yong is doing good. Hope to see China send two representatives per weight class to World’s and I would agree. After seeing the numbers of Lu Xiaojun, it does look like they don’t really care too much about the Nationals. Granted, 170/200 is still amazing. When are the Fall Championships happening? If these guys are all going to World’s then I doubt they’ll make an effort to peak for the Fall Nationals.
Tian Tao liveblogging: snatches 170-175-181x
jerks: 210-219x-/
Wow, Tian Tao attempting a 400 kg total. Missed the 181 kg snatch behind, looked doable though. Haven’t seen the 219 clean and jerk, but he has done 218 kg and been close on 219 kg before. His snatch looks to be improving, and a 400 kg total was not unrealistic at this meet, judging by the look of the snatch and his previous results in the clean and jerk.
So from the Tian Tao’s performance, the commentators said that he has improved his snatch overall (quite clearly) and as long as he could snatch above 175 consistently for next few championship meetings (including Rio) he could easily win the gold for China. (but they’re more particular with the Olympic gold) Nonetheless, they also mentioned that Tian’s C&J has reached 230kg in training. Yup 230, not 220. Lol. So now its more about consistency and improving his snatch overall.
OMG 230??
I assume they meant the Clean. That would be plausible considering how easy he stands up with 220.
Yup. According to what the commentator just said. I know right. the WR is 218 but he could do 230 during training.
Incredible, if he stays healthy it’s going to be interesting to follow his results the coming years. Is there any video of the 219 kg miss yet? Would be nice to see if it’s the usual balancing issue in the bottom position of the jerk.
He power jerked it this time. His opener of 210 was easy but almost lost it backwards.
Yea, watched it just now. As before, he cleans even a world record weight with apparent ease. Then he loses it behind on the jerk, not going very low, as you mentioned. He looked really happy during the competition, smiling all over the place. 🙂
230! What the actual fuck?
Yes, it’s a little unclear what they meant when they said 230. First, they said he can clean 230 but right after, they compared it to the clean&jerk record of 218. I tend to believe it was just the clean. Also, they mentioned that Tian Tao’s best snatch in training was 178, though right after missing 181, he lamented that he pulled it too hard, causing it to get over and behind him, so it definitely was not a strength deficit that keeps him from lifting more. I think Yujie’s training style very rarely calls for max outs, or Tian Tao’s training maxes would be higher seeing his strength here.
I believe its a 230 clean too. But I’m not surprise too if he jerked that weight up during training.
The new Shi Zhiyong clone is a monster. Frame looks good for 77s given their depth in 69 should move him up perhaps. Either way if he’s not on a Rio ticket its another big slip up. Incredible confidence and hit 195 squat jerk to win.
Yeah, but they’ll probably keep him in the 69, with Su Ying and Lu Haojie in the 77s. These are the new generation of Chinese weightlifters. It won’t be many years before Lu Xiaojun and Liao Hui will need someone to take their places and they’ve left some gigantic shoes to fill. Su Ying, for one, says that he ws displeased with his 370 performance and said that his training results were much stronger..
http://www.cwa.org.cn/news/gnxw/2015-04-23/469097.html
Chinese press is hinting he’ll go to worlds instead of Liao Hui. He already was national champion last year and set for the Asian Games (the priority in 2014) but got injured so Lin Qinfeng went instead.
Also great quote:
“I
feel like a total score of 352 kg, there should be room for
improvement, this result may be good enough for the world game, but I’m
afraid that in the national competition pressure is still very large.”
Like I said, wouldn’t be a bad thing for him to go to Houston later this year in Liao Hui’s stead. Liao Hui may just wanna take it easy and focus on Rio; people like him and Lu Xiaojun probably don’t have too many peaks left before they start to really fade. Using Shi Zhiyong and Su Ying in Houston might be a great way to give them some rest to better the chances of a double big bang Olympic finale in Rio while still virtually assuring no loss of gold medals in 2015. I think it’s on Yujie’s mind that he’s got to avoid any Zhan Xugang 2004 scenarios from happening in 2016. But then again, if it becomes evident that the high numbers we are seeing now are from these coaches peaking their athletes too soon and they can’t repeat those numbers in the test-of-strength event before the World’s, I think we’ll be seeing the good ole 1-2 punch again from Liao and Lu come November.
Did Zhan Xugang bomb the snatch in ’04 because he was burned out?
Maybe; he was at least not notably injured. He was old and he failed 3 times to lift a weight that would not have been especially challenging to him earlier in his career. So it looks like he was too old and burned out. Hoping to mint a triple Olympic champion, China looked over younger options like Li Hongli and allowed Zhan to lift instead. But 2004 was an especially tough year in the 77, with Sagir and Filimonov totalling 375 and 372.5 respectively so I doubt Li Hongli would have won either but he probably would have still been good for a medal.
Well, isn’t Tian Tao the cutest lil’ rebel? In his interview, he says he refuses to take 215 because it’s pointless to him and he can’t get excited about it. Natural progression would be 210, 215, 219, but he said he only wanted the 219 and that if he keeps trying, one day, that weight will fall to him. He also says that his body was soft and his rhythm was off. It is unclear if he was talking about a specific lift or his overall performance. Possibly, he was referring to his 210 because he said he was worried that if he missed his opener, it would be difficult to decide what to do from there.
Tian Tao is such a boss. Lol. He hopes he hits 220kg in the next international competition.
All I have to say is that China is LOADED with lifters
I really enjoyed what Liu Hao said so I will do a rough translation!
He said he managed to improve his snatch by quite a bit, and he is getting more confident about 180kg snatch (not too sure if I got this right).
The reporter asked him why he is unhappy with his results even though his total was so much more compared to second place. He said he shouldnt compete with the rest of the (chinese 94kg lifters) field because they are his (little) friends/brothers (i think he meant training partners?). He has to bring China’s 94kg lifting category to a level that is able to compete with the rest of the world. His aim is to improve the standard of the other 94kg Chinese lifters, such that China has a place in the world stage.
Thanks for this. I ad it to the post
Liu Hao in the 94 kg cat looked much better than last year. I think he might get to the point where he lifts 405 in the total. That would be very nice and could give him world championship medals easily.
Only thing notable about the -105 video was that Yang Zhe had an unspecified injured and his recent training was lackluster because he didn’t have any good fellow 105s in China to push him.
Gregor, this was not from the Yang Zhe interview; it was from the -105 video. Yang Zhe’s interview, though, wasn’t much different. Basically, he said, “I could not get any respectable amount of training done this winter due to injuries. I have never been plagued by so many injuries before. Even without weight on me, my knees can barely operate freely. My next goal is to recover and condition my body to resist these injuries from returning.”
Oh, thanks for the correction.
If he’s not greatly exaggerating, then I think his performance was incredibly admirable, especially the 220 jerk on knees that aren’t functioning normally just on body-weight. He wasn’t far off on his 191 snatch attempts either. Taking his condition into consideration, I’d say this was his most admirable performance yet and really lays testament to the conquering difficulties aspect of weightlifting!
Doesn’t look like Ai Yunan’s lift were shown (no morning news today). 🙁
Can anyone translate the Su Ying interview at the end of the highlight video? Did he say anything interesting?
He said he is unhappy with his missed lifts and did not really bring out the power of his training. He is confident he can do better and will work to improve. Also, he found a luxurious sense of enjoyment competing against Olympic champion and silver medalist Lu Xiaojun and Lu Haojie.
Wow. He was unhappy and did not really bring out the power of his training. Lol. Can’t wait to see him at his best then. Thanks, Victor!
Caoshi Jiaqi’s 168@77 snatch is a new Chinese Junior record since he’s *1995. I think he’ll be (part of) the future.
He did 157/177/334 last year. You can see him at 5:35 of the 2014 77kg video.
https://allthingsgym.com/2014-chinese-weightlifting-nationals-69kg-77kg/