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Forest Hill sophomore Jamarkus Emerson (139 pounds) placed fourth in the Class 3A Olympic category and finished fifth in the traditional event, while Archbishop McCarthy’s Jordan Castro (119) placed fourth in both the Class 2A traditional and Olympic competition.
International Weightlifting Federation
The IWF World Cup, which ended in Phuket, Thailand on Thursday, was an exciting, high-quality, well organised competition that will live long in the memory. It was also unique. Weightlifting at the Olympic Games in August will be very different from what we saw over 12 days at the World Cup...
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The final day of the IWF World Cup was not like the 11 that came before it. There were no world records, nobody knocked a team-mate out of the Olympic rankings, and the two biggest names in the men’s super-heavyweights were in the crowd rather than on the platform.
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China’s Olympic champion Li Wenwen built the biggest rankings lead in all 10 weight categories for Paris 2024 when she returned to the platform six months after suffering an elbow injury at the World Championships.
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Teenager Yekta Jamali boosted her chances of going to the Paris Olympic Games when she made a career-best total in her first competition for the IWF’s Weightlifting Refugee Team (WRT). Jamali was the best young female weightlifter in Iran when...
International Weightlifting Federation
Liu Huanhua from China broke two world records and built a big lead in the Olympic rankings with the final lift of a memorable day at the IWF World Cup in Phuket, Thailand. Another highlight was a jump of 18 places by Davranbek Hasanbayev from Turkmenistan in a B Group that produced four medallists.
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Olivia Reeves from the United States achieved the best result of her career when she defeated all three world record holders in the women’s 71kg at the IWF World Cup in Phuket, Thailand. At the final qualifier for Paris 2024...
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Rising star Vanessa Sarno books her ticket to the Paris Games, paving the way for the Philippines to have its biggest weightlifting contingent in the Olympics in nearly four decades
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The European and Pan American 89kg champions Karlos Nasar and Yeison Lopez were in world record form as they finished well clear of Asia’s contenders on another day of excitement at the IWF World Cup in Phuket, Thailand.
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Rahmat Erwin, one of the strongest favourites for Olympic gold, has been knocked out of Paris 2024 by his Indonesian team-mate Rizki Juniansyah in one of the biggest upsets in weightlifting history. It happened on another day of drama in the 73kg category at the IWF World Cup in Phuket...
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Athletes and support personnel taking part in the IWF World Cup in Phuket (THA) gathered today in the IWF Anti-Doping Seminar, the first of its kind in 2024, but a customary initiative of our International Federation at its main events.
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Hampton Morris from the United States made a huge final lift to take the 61kg clean and jerk world record from China’s Olympic champion Li Fabin at the IWF World Cup in Phuket. Winner Li had earlier beaten his own snatch world record...
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26-year-old John Ceniza joins 20-year-old Rosegie Ramos as the Philippines' first two Olympian weightlifters ahead of the 2024 Paris Games
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Rosegie Ramos, a 20-year-old weightlifter from Zamboanga, joins the growing list of Filipino athletes in the 2024 Paris Olympics
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Hou Zhuhui earned the chance to win Olympic gold for China for a second time when she bettered her own world record in a sensational performance at the IWF World Cup. There was drama from start to finish in two sessions of the women’s 49kg.
