(Tokyo Olympics) Wang Zhouyu female lifted 87 kilograms to win the championship, frankly "won the gold medal but lost to herself"
China News Service, Tokyo, August 2 (Bian Liqun) In the 87kg Olympic women's lifting competition held on the 2nd, Chinese athlete Wang Zhouyu snatched 120kg and lifted 150kg, with a total score of 270kg and won the championship, winning the Chinese weightlifting team this year. The 6th gold in the Olympics.
On August 2, local time, in the Tokyo Olympic Games women's 87 kg weightlifting finals, Chinese athlete Wang Zhouyu won the championship with a snatch of 120 kg and a clean and jerk of 150 kg, with a total score of 270 kg.
Wang Zhouyu won the gold in the Tashkent Asian Championships in April this year with a total score of 286 kg. This result is the same as her total score in the national championship last year, which broke the national record, and the state is relatively stable.
In this game, Wang Zhouyu’s main opponents are Mongolian player Munk Jantsen and Ecuador’s Salazar. The former lifted 247 kg at the Tashkent Asian Championships, ranking Chinese players Wang Zhouyu and Kang Yue to win the third place; Sarah Zell won third place in the 2019 World Championships by lifting 252 kg.
In the snatch session, Muenke Jentsen completed 110 kilograms, Salazar completed 113 kilograms, and the sudden rise of Dominican player Santana grabbed 116 kilograms.
Wang Zhouyu failed in his first attempt to lift 115 kg, succeeded in his second attempt at 115 kg, and succeeded in his third attempt at 120 kg, 4 kg ahead of the second.
In the clean and jerk session, the Mongolian player completed 142 kg. The Dominican player Santana who performed well in the snatch succeeded in the first attempt to lift 140 kg, the second and third consecutive attempts of 144 kg failed, and the Ecuadorian Salazar tried 150. The kilogram succeeded.
Wang Zhouyu succeeded in lifting 145 kg and 150 kg, but failed in his third attempt at 160 kg, and finally won the championship with a total score of 270 kg.
After the game, Wang Zhouyu admitted that although he won the gold medal, he lost to himself.
"I'm not very satisfied with the results. The first one was a little nervous, and I didn't get excited about the clean and jerk, and failed to complete the 280 kg total score goal. They joked that I can also cite this result when I sleep in the middle of the night. Maybe in the competition, I The mentality is still not strong enough."
In this Olympics, the weightlifting competition added 87 kg. In order to participate in the competition, Wang Zhouyu began to gain weight from 2019.
"At that time, starting in February, I gained nearly 10 kilograms in about a month and a half."
Wang Zhouyu revealed her weight gain recipe: "At that time, I drank porridge and two eggs in the morning, ate in the cafeteria at noon, and in the afternoon I would eat some cakes made by my mother after training. I would have dinner after I came back and eat noodles at 9 o'clock in the evening. At that time. It is to eat a lot and practice a lot, and we have to finish training every day later than others, in order to transform these foods into our own." (End)