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2018 World Weightlifting Championships
The 2018 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 1 to 10 November 2018. The logo of IWF World Championships 2018 has consisted of abstract illustration of weightlifting athlete designed by Ashgabat based design firm, Belli Creative Studio This was the first World Championship, after the IWF changed their weight classes and nullified all world records. As a result this World Championship saw a total of 31 senior men's world records set, and 41 senior women's world records set. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk) Team ranking Men Women Participating nations A total of 582 competitors from 85 nations participated. * (5) * (2) * (8) * (5) * (1) * (7) * (1) * (16) * (2) * (4) * (8) * (13) * (4) * (20) * (12) * (13) * (1) * (3) * (8) * (9) * (7) * (10) * (5) * (1) * (9) * (5) * (7) * (11) * (2) * (8) * (3) * (3) * (3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashgabat
Ashgabat or Asgabat ( tk, Aşgabat, ; fa, عشقآباد, translit='Ešqābād, formerly named Poltoratsk ( rus, Полтора́цк, p=pəltɐˈratsk) between 1919 and 1927), is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies between the Karakum Desert and the Kopetdag mountain range in Central Asia, near the Iran-Turkmenistan border. The city was founded in 1881 on the basis of an Ahal Teke tribal village, and made the capital of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924. Much of the city was destroyed by the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake, but has since been extensively rebuilt under the rule of Saparmurat Niyazov's "White City" urban renewal project, resulting in monumental projects sheathed in costly white marble. The Soviet-era Karakum Canal runs through the city, carrying waters from the Amu Darya from east to west. Since 2019, the city has been recognized as having one of the highest costs of living in the world largely due to Turkmenistan's inflation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Mosquera
Francisco Antonio Mosquera Valencia (born 1 April 1992) is a Colombian weightlifter, World Champion, three-time Pan American Champion and Pan American Games Champion competing in the 62 kg category until 2018 and 61 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. Career Injury before Olympics In 2016 he tore his Patellar tendon in his left knee 10 days before the beginning of the 2016 Summer Olympics and was unable to compete. His recovery lasted 15 months and he was unable to compete until the 2017 Bolivarian Games, during which he competed in the 62 kg division winning a gold medal. World Championships Mosquera won a gold medal in the 62kg division at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships in Anaheim, this makes him the second Colombian weightlifter to win a gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championships after Leydi Solís also at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships. He also won a silver medal i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Dayin
Li Dayin (; born 12 February 1998) is a Chinese weightlifter and Asian Champion competing in the 81 kg division. He has set three world records and holds all three junior world records in the 81 kg division. He won the gold medal in the men's 81kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. Career World Championships In 2018 the International Weightlifting Federation updated the weight classes, and he competed in the newly created 81 kg division as the 2018 World Championships. The 81 kg competition saw 5 world records set and 11 junior world records set. In the snatch portion Li set two junior world records and was in third place after Lü Xiaojun and Mohamed Ihab exchanged world record lifts. In the clean & jerk portion of the competition he exchanged junior world records with Harrison Maurus, his final gold medal winning lift of 204 kg secured him the bronze medal in the total and junior world records in all lifts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lü Xiaojun
Lü Xiaojun (; born 27 July 1984) is a Chinese Olympic weightlifting, weightlifter. He is a three-time Olympic champion and five-time world champion competing in the 77 kg category until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. He has been banned for EPO Early life Lü was born in a village administered by Qianjiang, Hubei, Qianjiang City, Hubei, Hubei Province. His father, Lü Yuan, and the rest of his family were farmers. When he was 13 years old he joined a local sports school to be trained as a weightlifter, which was an opportunity to escape rural poverty. In 1999, to remove the financial burden on Lü's family, his coach Dengling Hu sent him to join the provincial team. Weightlifting career In 2003 Lü represented the Hubei provincial team in the Chinese national weightlifting championships, competing at 69 kg. He won the bronze total for his class. The same year, due to his outstanding performance, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohamed Ehab
Mohamed Ehab Youssef Ahmed Mahmoud (born 21 November 1989), known as Mohamed Mahmoud or Mohamed Ehab, is an Egyptian weightlifter, and World Champion competing in the 77 kg category until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. Early life Ehab was born in Faiyum, Egypt a city located 100 kilometers southwest from Cairo. He was introduced to weightlifting by his father. Ehab started training with a coach at the age of 8 after his brother took him to a weightlifting gym. He went on to join the Egyptian national team at the age of 15 at a body weight of 56 kg. Ehab's biggest influence in weightlifting was his father, after his passing Mohamed decided to dedicate his life to the sport. Career Olympics At the 2016 Summer Olympics he competed in the men's 77 kg weight class, getting third place for the snatch and second place for clean & jerk, giving him a third place which was upgraded to silver in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Won Jeong-sik
Won Jeong-sik (, born 9 December 1990) is a South Korean weightlifter, Olympian,Jeongsik Won nbcolympics.com and World Champion competing in the 69 kg category until 2018 and 73 kg starting in 2018 after the reorganized the categories. Won took up weightlifting aged 14 and has a degree from the . He is married to the fellow Olympic weightlifter |
Feng Lüdong
Feng Lüdong (born 23 October 1991) is a Chinese weightlifter, competing in the 69 kg division until 2018 and 73 kg and 67 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. Career In 2018 he competed at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in the 73 kg division, and won a bronze medal in the snatch portion. He competed at the 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships The 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships were held in Ningbo, China from 20 to 28 April 2019. It was the 48th men's and 29th women's championship. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking by al ... winning a silver medal in the 67 kg division. Major results References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Feng, Ludong Living people 1991 births Chinese male weightlifters World Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Chinese people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadzim Likharad
Vadzim Likharad (born 6 September 1993) is a Belarusian weightlifter. He participated at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships The 2018 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 1 to 10 November 2018. The logo of IWF World Championships 2018 has consisted of abstract illustration of weightlifting athlete designed by Ashgabat based design fi ..., winning a medal. In 2020 he tested positive for a Dehydrochoromethyl-testosterone metabolite and is banned until 2024 by the International Weightlifting Federation. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Likharad, Vadzim 1993 births Living people Belarusian male weightlifters World Weightlifting Championships medalists European Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Belarusian people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shi Zhiyong (weightlifter, Born 1993)
Shi Zhiyong (; born 10 October 1993) is a Chinese weightlifter, two time Olympic Champion, three time World Champion and four time Asian Champion competing in the 69 kg category until 2018 and 73 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. Shi was born Shi Lei (Chinese: 石磊), but his coach Zhan Xugang gave him the new name after former Olympic Champion Shi Zhiyong. He holds the current world records in the -73 kg class for the snatch, clean and jerk and total, and has set 13 world records. Career Olympics In 2016 he competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 69 kg category. After the snatch portion of the competition he was in second place, trailing Daniyar İsmayilov by a single kg. Shi was able to beat Daniyar İsmayilov by two kg in the clean & jerk portion of the competition, lifting 190 kg over Daniyar's 188 kg, this gave him a total of 352 kg and an Olympic gold medal. In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Óscar Figueroa (weightlifter)
Oscar Albeiro Figueroa Mosquera (born 27 April 1983) is a Colombian weightlifter, and Olympic Champion (gold-medalist) competing in the 62 kg category until 2018 and 67 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. He was born in the rural township of Zaragoza, located in Cartago, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. He initially retired from the sport after the 2016 Summer Olympics, but has returned to international competition and has competed at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships. He formally announced his retirement again in November 2019. Career Olympics At the 2004 Summer Olympics he ranked 5th in the snatch as well as the clean & jerk in the 56 kg category, lifting a total of 280 kg, and finished 5th overall. In the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, Figueroa failed to make a lift in the snatch category, he was unable to lift the bar from the floor in all three attempts. After the competition, it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doston Yokubov
Doston Yokubov (born 5 April 1995) is an Uzbek Olympic weightlifter. He won the gold medal in the men's 67 kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He also represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ... held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Major results References 1995 births Living people Uzbekistani male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters of Uzbekistan Weightlifters at the 2014 Asian Games Weightlifters at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in weightlifting Asian Games silver medalists for Uzbekistan Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games World Weightlifting Championships medalists Islamic Solidarity Games competitors f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
