The 2017

Asian Weightlifting Championships The Asian Weightlifting Championships is a weightlifting championship organised by the Asian Weightlifting Federation for competitors from the Asian countries. It has been held since 1969 for men and 1988 for women. In 2008 the championships provi ...

were held in

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 ...

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...

between April 23 and April 29, 2017. It was the 47th men's and 28th women's championship.

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

144 athletes from 27 nations competed. * (2) * (2) * (16) * (9) * (8) * (1) * (10) * (4) * (9) * (6)* * (2) * (1) * (2) * (1) * (5) * (1) * (3) * (3) * (9) * (1) * (3) * (2) * (7) * (15) * (5) * (10) * (7) * Athletes from

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...

competed as ''Asian Weightlifting Federation (AWF)'' due to the suspension of the country's Weightlifting Federation.

References

Results

External links

* {{Asian Weightlifting Championships Asian Weightlifting Championships

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