IWF Grand Prix in China happened from 21.09-23.09.
I think most of the sessions will be live streamed and later archived on CNTV5
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Highlights
18 year old Hou Zhihui, competing at 49kg bodyweight, clean & jerked 118kg (3kg below the 48kg WR)!
She also snatched 90, 93 and just barely missed 98kg (current 48kg Snatch World record) behind.
18 year old Huo Zhihui, competing at 49kg bodyweight…She snatched 90, 93 and just barely missed 98kg (which is the current 48kg Snatch World Record) behind.In the Clean & Jerk she lifted 110, 115 and finally 118kg, which is just 3 kg below the 48kg WR!Remember her name. Future world champion right there.PS: you can also see her in a bunch of training videos on ATG's YouTube Channel (Chinese Junior Team Training)
Posted by All Things Gym on Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Liao Hui snatching 170kg and taking a shot at the 77kg Clean & Jerk World Record!
Cleaned the 211kg, but missed the Jerk.
Liao Hui 170kg SnatchLiao Hui Snatching 170kg!He went x160, 160, 170, weighing in at 73.72kgLive Stream on ATG
Posted by All Things Gym on Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Liao Hui 211kg Clean & Jerk AttemptCrazy! Liao Hui takes a shot at the World Record (of the weight class above him!)He attempted 211kg. Cleaned it, but missed the Jerk.
Posted by All Things Gym on Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Li Yajun (53kg) Snatching 101kg (2kg below World Record) and Clean & Jerking 120kg
Li Yajun 101kg SnatchLi Yajun (53kg, China) snatching 101kg! Just 2kg below the World Record set by Li Ping.Watch the Full Recordings on ATG.舉重 黎雅君 Li Ya Jun
Posted by All Things Gym on Monday, September 21, 2015
Li Yajun 120kg Clean & Jerk22 Year Old Li Yajun (53kg) clean & jerks 120kg to win Gold at the Grand Prix in ChinaLive Streams are linked on ATG
Posted by All Things Gym on Monday, September 21, 2015
Recordings
85kg Full Video
69 & 77kg Full Recording
58 & 63kg
48 & 53kg
62kg Recordins With Ding Jianjun winning.
Can’t wait to wake up at 5am for this!
Interesting things that I noticed in the startlist:
-The women’s classes are weaker than what I expected. Only the chinese seem to take this seriously.
-Many male chinese lifters are out of their natural weight division. Zhang Jie in the 69’s, Liao Hui in the 77’s, and both Lu Haojie and Zhang Guoshun in the 85’s.
-The 62kg class should be awesome. Add Hristov, Kim Un-Guk and Chen Lijun, and it would’ve been a WChamps group A startlist.
-Ridiculous entry totals from the Kazakhs
-Nijat Rahimov now competes for Kazakhstan? Azerbaijan got Azerbaijaned! LOL
Not enough lifters, probably funding issues for other countries. The KAZ entry totals aren’t final.
8 out 15 Chinese lifters are above their normal category. And names I expected:
No Tian Yuan or Tan Yayun at 48.
No Zhang Wanqiong at 53.
No Wang Shuai at 58.
No Chen Youjuan at 69.
Nobody at 56, thought Long Decheng or Li Fabin would be here.
I would not have guessed to see Liao Hui at all. This is almost confirmation for Shi Zhiyong to be at the WWC
No Lu Xiaojun OR Su Ying at 77. Will they both be at the WWC!? It’d be a shame if one of them doesn’t lift once more in 2015.
Oh and Farkhat Kharki is another transfer in the tradition of Chinshanlo/Maneza. His old/real name is He Zhichun.
Don’t forget about russia alexey yufkin sergei petrov and dmitry khomyakov are on the list. Ivanov alexander and khetag khugaev might be at presidents cup in december.
What does China get out of it? Does Kazakhstan send anyone over? They’ve never sent anyone good for a medal, that’s for sure. Chinshanlo and Maneza are champions! Why does China keep doing this?
Well some people seriously bolster their income I’d presume, Kazhakstan has oil money. The question to me would be: is that worth more than the lost medals and titles.
Of course they also bought Russians before, Eduard Tjukin (2004 OG Bronze for RUS), Viacheslav Yershov (Russian record, then AG Gold), Alla Vazhenina (OG silver) and of course Svetlana Podobedova (WC, OC).
Kazhakstan won four Golds in London, but in reality three of those were Russian/Chinese. I’m not a fan.
Jesus, I didn’t know it was that bad. The guys who sold Chinshanlo and Maneza need to be brought up on corruption charges. It’s not about 2 people; it’s about all the national assets used on all of the people who had to be recruited and trained in order to find those 2 champions. This is selling national assets for personal gain. Absolutely ridiculous!
Su Ying’s coach told me he will lift in Houston.
Thanks.
This probably means that liao hui wont be competing in houston.
Not a big surprise though.
well since liao missed the test event due to some army business, i guess this will be his test of some sort since he didnt cut to 69.so houston is not out of possibility
Liao hui won last year at wwc14 so he needs to win 2 major events to qualify for rio2016. Basically, going to this grand prix he could easily secure his spot for rio.
He doesn’t need to win, just participate.
Um… why do the women’s not go over 69kg and men’s not go over 85?
75 and + 75 category women and above 85 category men will be at presidents cup in russia in december.
LOLOL Are you serious? This is a 2-part competition co-hosted by China and Russia?? That is hilarious!
Yup. Check iwf’s website. What’s wrong with that? Haha ilya’s going to compete at presidents cup in grozny russia in december to secure his spot on rio2016. And I think ivanov alexander and khetag khugaev might be there as well.
COOL!
They’re independet of each other. The Russian GP has always been 75/+75/94/105/+105 since 2011.
Thought Li Yajun would attempt the snatch WR at 104. Said her knee hurt on IG.
Also, Jesus Christ where did Hou Zhihui come from? Never heard before the JWC and now she’s in the running for top 48 against Jiang and Tian. Only 1kg overweight she attempted 98 (senior WR snatch) and equaled 118 (Junior WR C&J) all while having two more years as Junior.
LOL Huang Minhao 147+152
That’s a pretty good Rybakou ratio.
My best ratio is 81-85 in comp, lol
Rybakou once did 182.5+187.5. But today, 85kg Ye Jiajun almost out-Rybakou’ed Rybakou. He went 150+160 but had he missed his last clean and jerk, he would have went 150+150 LOL. And those clean and jerks didn’t look overly easy either!
Great to see Liao make that after the Spring Nationals debacle
Goodness grief, Liao Hui’s 211. I thought it was just a fun attempt when I saw it but only after he missed did I realize that that would have counted for the WR for both the clean and jerk and the total in the 77! He would have taken Perepetchenov’s and Lu Xiaojun’s records had he made it! And he was not too far; maybe if he took another breath before jerking…
Anyone know what happened to Liang Chenxi? He failed a 130 snatch and dropped out of the competition. Was he injured? I did not see the video.
He held his back but it didn’t look too serious (few minutes in here): http://tv.cntv.cn/video/VSET100150761698/7ef7164c5e8e432e902ae6d58b815289
Thanks, I’ll give you something back from that LOL
Liang Chenxi has a shoulder injury so he wasn’t at all in competition form.
Liao Hui said that before going, he told Lu Xiaojun that he would attempt the record. The reporter asked if he would stay in 77 and he said that 69 is where he really was best at. Lu Xiaojun said that he would reward Liao Hui if he was successful at breaking the 77 world record. After missing his 160 opener, Liao Hui felt the power of youth suddenly course through his body again, and thus, he finished the competition in a relatively satisfactory manner. (I think he means that he found his mental form after his opener missed.)
overweight 69kg lifter competing in 77kg class for the first time and instantly capable of setting world records and beating one of the longest standing records in the book with his second c&j attempt after a 21 kg increase … just for the lolz … Liao Hui is mental! Best weightlifter of our time. Beautiful execution of the lifts.
Liao Hui is a great lifter, but he’s definitely not the best weightlifter of our time.
Who then??? Ilya?
Depends on how he counts “our time” and what’s the best weightlifter? The guy with most gold medals or the guy who dominates the most when he competes, or the guy with the most records? Pyrros Dimas has 3 Olympic golds and a bronze. Ilyin has never lost the total. Liao Hui wrecks and demoralizes his competition every time, and is the only man to hold all 3 records in his class. He has never even lost a snatch or clean and jerk medal, which is more than what Ilya can say, BUT he was busted once in 2010! There is no real definition for best weightlifter.
i would give a slight edge to Ilya because he was able to win across different weight classes.
Well, Liao Hui just won the 77 now and he did it with amazing ease. He damn near broke 2 WRs of the class above him while not even close to filling out the weight class! Ilya’s main attraction is that through all of his competitions (and there are many), he’s never lost! Liao Hui actually lost once before when he was a 77 and he competed at some joke East Asian Friendship competition where there were only 3 lifters in his class. I assume Sa Jae Hyouk beat him. He said he just couldn’t get serious on that day LOL
True, he was busted. I don’t think I need to even say it, none of the top guys are saints when it comes to recovery. Ilya is included, but that’s another can of worms that I won’t get into. There is no need to take away from this discussion or piss off Gregor.
I should have said “best among currently active lifters”. I don’t care much about medals or relative dominaton as a criteria because then the respective competitors have to be considered as well. Best criteria TO ME would be (potential) sinclair. Liao Hui has a 370 total @69 in him. From a personal view I also like the “best” lifter to have good sn/cj ratio. There is quite a difference between Liao and Ilya regarding their actual best sinclairs and more so, their potential sinclairs. Ilya had to give everything he got basically everytime he competed and only really dominated in OG 2012. Best weighlifter in general is of course Naim and will probably be for quite some time.
Yes, Ilyin or any 105 would have to total 442 to match Liao Hui’s already set WR. I don’t know about 370 but I could see 365 happening with 6/6.
Ilyin’s record is outstanding among modern day lifters – but he still has some way to go to match the performances of Yuri Zackharevich, who as a junior totalled 440kg (200kg/240kg) in the then 100kg class before moving up to the 110kg Class, where he put at least another 10kg on both those snatch and c&j figures.
Ilyin needs to significantly improve his snatch if he is to get close to Yuri’s career best figures.
Despite weighing 55kg/9 stone more in bodyweight, Rezadadeh’s then super heavyweight snatch WR of 213kg was only 3kg better than Yuri’s 110kg Class snatch WR !
Liao Hui in my opinion is the best pound for pound lifter i have seen in the past 25 years – the margins he is winning major championships by is astonishing.
Uhhh you seem to be forgetting Naim. Naim is by far the best pound for pound lifter in the past 25 years.
Ilya is the best weightlifter of our time that is currently competing on high level. I’m pretty sure 9/10 would agree on that. He is the star of weightlifting right now. But I agree with you that liao Hui is outstanding in his weightcategory in a way Ilya never been. But if you are talking potential i would say Tatiana Kashrina is the most promising weightlifter right now. Most likely the first women to lift over 200kg in clean & jerk 🙂
The Best weightlifter for all time – this is Liu Chunhong (69 kg) from Team of China. She Won Championship-2005 in Doha in 75 kg (and Beat Podobedova and Zabolotnay) when her own weight = Only 69 kg). Liu Chunhong – is Really a CHAMPION of CHAMPIONS !!!!!!!!!!!! (and My Favorite Girl-Weightlifter). The First women, which to lift over 200 kg (and even over 210 kg) in Clean and Jerk – it will be Zhou Lulu (from the China). Zhou Lulu – Really most Strong women in the World. (but Not our russian Kashirina)
Zhou Lulu? ты смейошся или правда думаеш ета корова. Толкнет 200 до Тани????
Китаянка Толкнет ровно Столько (в Толчке) сколько потребуется ей для Победы (как это делает в Толчке тот же Ильин), нужно будет Толкнуть 220 – толкнет 220. Ее потолок в Толчке – неограничен. (то есть его просто нет). Она преобразует всю свою массу – в поднятые в Толчке над головой килограммы. (Если она Берет Штангу на грудь то 200 % будь уверен что толкнет с груди Железно Любой вес). А Кто выигрывает Толчок – тот как правило побеждает и по Сумме 2-х упражнений. Это “корова” – как бы Действующая Олимп Чемпионка, у России же в женской штанге – Олимп Чемпионок – просто НЕТ *и возможно и в РИО не будет) . А у Китая – их Уйма (Золотых победителей Олимпиад среди женщин в Штанге)
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You sound like a fan boy, right to a tee. Zhou will never clean 220, let alone jerk it. Tell me what happened to Zhou last time she went head to head against Tanya in Poland? She lost the cnj by 8 kilos. You see Zhou is a lot like Chingiz, strong as hell just can’t pull it together in snatch. Let’s see if she can snatch 150 first. Not to mention she outweighs Tanya by at least 25 kilos. You use this Olympic champion routine as if it means the world. She maybe a champion, true, but she onlywon by one kilo. Besides the entire Russian team had bad luck in London. Just listen to yourself please. She has no ceiling in the cnj, really??? Sure doesn’t seem like it to me.
We will see in Rio 🙂 maybe we will see 2 women lift 200kg +
Can’t take anything away from Ilya, he is hell of a lifter. I just think Liao or any Chinese lifter for that matter are exposed to the masses like that crazy Kazakh is. He never lost any competitions, but let’s be honest and agree that Liao is the better technician. Ilyas lifts almost look as if he doesn’t quite sets up all the way/ properly and just rips/rushes the weight. It still works out just fine for him though. The most promising lifter to me is Tian Tao, dare I say he is the strongest lifter when comparing weight class/ratio. I mean he cleans 220 like its nothing, squats 270 for reps. I also would love to see Albegov put on a performance of a lifetime. 215 snatch by him would be a thing of beauty to see.
I also think Bezhanyan could beat Ilya in cnj.
yes i agree with you that Liao Hui or any other weightlifter for that matter looks like they are more technical than ilya. Ilya just walks up to the weight and grabs it so when he miss a lift it looks like he didnt prepare at all. But somehow it works for him. Also agree that Tian Tao is very promising but i would stil hold Ilya higher since he acctually dominate the stage. Looks just as easy when Ilya cleans the world record weight. Ilya could probably clean 10kg above WR to. But i doubt he can jerk it. So that Tian Tao and Ilya have incommon.
Gonna have to disagree with you there. Ilya’s 432 total from World’s last year gave him a 473.151 Sinclair. Liao’s 359 total from the same event gave him a 484.390 sinclair–the highest out of any male competitor. And here’s the crucial point: Liao passed on his 3rd C&J and could easily have done 3-7 kg more than he finished with. Ilya on the other hand was pushed to his absolute limit.
Well comparing Ilya’s competition last year isn’t really fair since he only trained hard for 1 year before the competition? After Rio we will know what he really can do.
I’d say it’s entirely fair since Ilya deliberately chose to begin training for Almaty when he did. He knows what he’s doing and how to peak. If you’d rather look at his London performance, his sinclair then was 477.92 which is still lower than Liao’s in both 2014 (484.4) and 2013 (483.77).
I think part of the reason Liao passed his third lift was because he was lifting with a large laceration on his hand that he sustained from broken glass. He said that the stitches came off only on the day before his competition and that it had already began to re-open. Lifting a max clean and jerk might have caused it to burst open completely.
Zhang Wangli 150kg C&J at 65kg! WR at 63 is 145. Monster lift.
On second thought, this is lunacy. She’s also 2kg over the 63 total WR. As a Junior. And she only made her opening snatch. Watch out Deng Wei.
That’s crazy. Can’t wait for the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tSWceePxT0
She said her snatch could have been way better; it was a pity she missed twice because 113 feels very light to her. Clean and jerk was, of course, on point.
Saw that video on CNTV. Waiting for a better recording.
The supposed 85+69 program on CCTV5 only showed an abridged version of what already aired on CCTV5+ earlier, no women. Maybe more will turn up later but I doubt it.
Based on what they’re saying, the commentators are pretty critical of the American lifters’ form and technique. Although they did comment on how jacked Anthony Pomponio looked haha.
That is true. Chinese commentators often say that American and sometimes, even European (non Russian) technique is so poor that it’s difficult to judge their true ability. Someone could miss a lift purely due to technical issues and smoothly make the next lift 10kg higher, whereas Chinese lifters are more consistent with form and thus, if you see him struggling with a weight, the chances of him making anything much heavier is slim to nil.
They said Pomponio looked like a Spartan warrior LOL
Wonder what happened to vyacheslav yarkin of russia? Anyone?
He got injured during the junior worlds.