Meanwhile Last year in China …
Tian Tao (17 y/o 77kg in the video, now 85kg) Squats 280kg for a double!
Learn more about Chinese Weightlifting in Larry’s Article Series.
Also see his short interview here.
And in case you have not seen the 215kg attempt I shared on the ATG Facebook Page the other day, here it is again.
17 y/o 77kg. Mother of god.
Tian’s clean looks really ugly… It obviously works but man it looks horrible
I actually think it looks quite graceful, albeit a little slow.
Very efficient use of energy on the clean and it looked fine very typical pull for chinese lifters. That is also an absolutely unreal attempt for that weight class let alone at 17…It looked clearly max effort so it wont be super crisp. I love how casually and easily he does the squats beltless with no wraps also. Compared to Lu Xiaojun he looks small also so I figure he can grow into his body more.
It seems he uses some sort of belt. I hope to see him at Worlds
He gets under it crazily fast… I personally think it looks utterly amazing, would love to be able to keep the bar that close.
I really don’t know why you say Tian’s clean was ugly. It looks great tbh.
I seriously don’t want to believe this. Why not be a top ranked powerlifter too? Stupidly strong.
PL probably doesn’t pay the bills for them