Laurel Hubbard, the New Zealand national team, who participated in the Olympic Games for the first time as a transgender athlete whose mind and body do not match in the weightlifting women's over 87 kg class at the Tokyo Olympics, failed all three snatches in the first half. , It ended without a record.
43-year-old Hubbard announced that he was transgender in 2013 and began to participate in women's events after undergoing sex reassignment surgery, and this June the International Weightlifting Federation announced the Tokyo Olympics. I got the right to participate in the 7th place in the ranking about the right to participate.
He was the first transgender athlete to participate in the Olympics in a class of over 87 kg for women held on the 2nd.
Hubbard tried 120km in the first half of the "snatch", where he raised the barbell all at once, among the shutter sounds of many cameras, but failed because he couldn't keep his balance.
The second time I increased the weight and challenged 125 kg, raised the barbell overhead for about 5 seconds and showed a guts pose with a smile, but it was judged as a failure and the third time I tried 125 kg again failed it's over.
As a result, the first Olympics ended without a record, with the barbell lifted to the shoulders and then raised above the head for the second half of the "jerk".
At the venue, the mix zone where the athletes were interviewed was packed with a large number of media, which can be said to be unusual in this competition, and in a hurry, a special partition was set up to secure the conductors of the athletes, showing the high degree of attention. ..
After the trial, Hubbard responded by raising his hand to the applause from the people involved in the venue, but in the mix zone, while TV stations in each country asked for an interview, he silently passed in front of the camera and his home country. I was only interviewed by a New Zealand TV station.