Asian Games, Event Introduction in Weightlifting
In South Korea, medal candidates such as Kim Soo-hyun, Park Hye-jung, and Son Young-hee are returning to the international stage, but the current skills of North Korean weightlifters are a question mark.
Weightlifting is considered one of the oldest sports among the official Asian Games sports, along with track and field and swimming.
From the 1st New Delhi Games in 1951 to the 19th Hangzhou Games, it was held as an official event every time. 온라인카지노
Even in the Olympics, it maintained its status as an official event from the 1st Athens Games in 1896 to the 32nd Tokyo Games in 2021.
However, due to the 'banned drug scandal' that tainted the barbell, it recently received an 'expulsion warning' from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Although it was adopted as an official event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the number of Olympic weight classes will be significantly reduced from 14 at the Tokyo Games to 10.
In the Asian Games, the number decreased by only 1, from 15 at the 2018 Jakarta/Palembang Games to 14 at the Hangzhou Games.
Weightlifting is a lonely game.
When standing on a platform measuring 4m
Weightlifting is divided into two categories: snatch and clean and jerk.
In the Asian Games, each division is given three periods, and the ranking is determined by the total.
Weightlifting is a sport in which physical abilities such as strength and agility have an absolute influence, so it is easy to fall into the ‘temptation of drugs.’
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), which declared a 'war on banned substances', reorganized the eight weight classes for men and women into ten weight classes each for men and women in October 2018.
It was a weight class reorganization with the intention of erasing the ‘record created by drugs.’
However, the view on weightlifting is still cold.
As the IOC has reduced the number of Olympic medals in weightlifting, athletes are having a hard time because the weight class systems for the Olympics, World Championships, and Asian Games are different.
Hangzhou Asian Games weightlifting consists of 7 weight classes for men (61 kg, 67 kg, 73 kg, 81 kg, 96 kg, 109 kg, and over 109 kg) and 7 weight classes for women (49 kg, 55 kg). class, 59 kg class, 64 kg class, 76 kg class, 87 kg class, and 87 kg or more class).
Weightlifting at the 2024 Paris Olympics includes five weight classes for men (61kg, 73kg, 89kg, 102kg, and over 102kg) and five weight classes for women (49kg, 59kg, 71kg, 81kg). Class, 81kg and above).
Korean weightlifting star Kim Soo-hyun (29, Busan City Sports Council) will compete in the 76kg class at the Hangzhou Asian Games and aims to compete in the 81kg class at the Paris Olympics.
14 Korean athletes will compete in weightlifting at the Hangzhou Asian Games, which will be held from September 30 to October 7.
Korean weightlifting suffered the humiliation of no gold twice in a row at the 2014 Incheon and 2018 Jakarta/Palembang Asian Games.
In Incheon in 2014, he won one silver medal and one bronze medal, and in Jakarta and Palembang in 2018, he won three silver medals and two bronze medals.
In 2018, China, the strongest country in weightlifting, was even more disappointed as it did not win a gold medal even though it was banned from participating in the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympics due to its history of using banned substances.
Korean weightlifting has not produced a gold medalist since Jang Mi-ran (currently Vice Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism) in the women's heavyweight class at the 2010 Guangzhou Games.
This year in Hangzhou, we expect Kim Soo-hyun to win a gold medal in the women's 76kg class.
Kim Soo-hyun placed third at the World Championships last December and won the Jinju Asian Weightlifting Championships in May this year.
At the Jinju Asian Weightlifting Championships, women's 87kg and over category, 2nd place Park Hye-jung (Goyang City Hall) and 3rd place Son Young-hee (Busan City Sports Council) are expected to battle for second place following the 'strongest' Li Wen-won (China).
Jin Yun-seong (Goyang City Hall) and Jang Yeon-hak (Asan City Hall) in the men's 109kg class and Lee Sang-yeon (Suwon City Hall) in the 67kg class are also medal candidates.
Among them, Son Young-hee and Jang Yeon-hak, who won silver medals in 2018, are aiming to win medals in two consecutive Asian Games.
China, the ‘strongest weightlifter’, is expected to dominate this competition as well.
The variable is North Korea's return to the 'international stage'.
North Korea produced gold medalists in eight out of 15 weight classes at the 2018 Asian Games when China was absent.
However, the 'current skills' of North Korean weightlifters, who have not competed in senior international competitions since the 2019 World Championships, are shrouded in mystery.