Wang Jiali won three gold medals in snatch , snatch and total score. Photo provided by/ Qi Xihui
Red Net Time News October 9 (Reporter Zhou Yumo) 2022 Asian Weightlifting Championship kicked off on the evening of October 8 local time. In the Olympic women's 49kg competition, Wang Jiali, born in 2002, won three gold medals in snatch, clean and twitch and total results, helping Chinese Weightlifting Team to get a good start in the first international event that it participated in the Paris Olympic cycle.
This Asian Championship is the first time that young player Wang Jiali has participated in an international competition. According to China National Weightlifting Team , during the snatch competition, due to the frequent changes in weight of the players, Wang Jiali lifted 80 kilograms, but was sentenced to failure due to timeout. The second hand was 81 kilograms successful, and the third hand was 85 kilograms unsuccessful. In the end, Wang Jiali led the second place with a score of 81 kilograms and locked the gold medal. In the clean and jerk competition, Wang Jiali showed her absolute strength. She successfully scored all three 100, 103 and 105 kg, with a total score of 186 kg, and successfully locked all three gold medals.
Wang Jiali's coach Qi Xihui told Red Net Sports reporter that Wang Jiali had an injury problem with her knee joint before the game, so she did not conduct systematic training before the game, which had a certain impact on her game, and the game results were slightly different from her best results.
As the Tokyo Olympic women's 49kg champion Hou Zhihui junior sister and fellow villager of the same level, Wang Jiali said after the game: "We must learn from senior sister Hou Zhihui and shoulder the heavy responsibility!"
At present, the world record of women's 49kg snatching and total results are 96 kg and 213 kg created by Olympic champion Hou Zhihui in the 2021 Tashkent Weightlifting Asian Championships. The world record for clean and clean is 119 kg created by Indian star Mirabai at the 2021 Tashkent Weightlifting Asian Championships.
This competition is not only Wang Jiali's first international competition, but also her head coach Qi Xihui participated in the first national competition as a coach. The National Weightlifting Team said that enriching international competition experience for young players is an essential part of their rapid growth. For the young coaching team sent this time, the national team also hopes to achieve the effect of training new players and running-in teams through the competition.
Wang Jiali and Qi Xihui will return home with the national weightlifting team after all the Asian Championships are over.
