On March 22, local time, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport announced that the Rio Olympic men's 77kg weightlifting champion Nidzat Rahimov will be banned for 8 years for taking illegal drugs, canceling him from March 15, 2016. All competition results through January 18, 2021.
This means that Chinese star Lu Xiaojun is expected to make up for the gold medal at this level of the Rio Olympics, thus achieving the Olympic Games three consecutive championships!
Lv Xiaojun, born on July 27, 1984 in Qianjiang City, Hubei Province, is a Chinese male weightlifter.
In November 2009, Lv Xiaojun won the 77th World Weightlifting Championships in the men's 77kg category and broke the world record, and was elected as the best male weightlifter of the year.
In the 2012 London Olympics, the men's 77kg class broke the world record and won the championship; in August 2016, in the Rio Olympics weightlifting men's 77KG final, he broke the world record with snatch and jerk of 177KG and clean and jerk of 202KG, with a total score of 379KG. , won the runner-up due to the weight heavier than the Kazakh competitor who lifted the same weight.
In 2018, Lv Xiaojun won the men's 81kg championship at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships and set a new world record for the total score of the event.
On July 31, 2021, Lv Xiaojun won the gold medal in the men's 81kg weightlifting class at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
(Making Yueziyan)
Responsible editor: [Fang Jialiang]