Chapter 424: Weightlifting
After Meng Fan won the gold medal in men's 130kg Greco-Roman wrestling, the news official of the Central Five Sports sent a scarf as soon as possible:
In the 130 kg Classical final of the wrestling event at the just-concluded Kyoto Olympic Games, Meng Fan easily defeated his opponent with an absolute advantage, and won the gold medal in this level event in only three OK years......
: The third athlete in the history of the Olympic Games to win gold medals in cross-major events, and the only athlete to win Olympic gold medals in both judo and wrestling so far! Next, Meng Fan still has weightlifting and freestyle wrestling competitions to play, and every step has the potential to make history! Let's look forward to his wonderful performances in weightlifting and freestyle wrestling!#δΊ¬ι½ε₯₯θΏδΌ##δ»ε€©εε‘ιηδΊε##εδΈι#
The data given by the Central Five Sports News is still very interesting, and several "threes" are used.
Three OK, those who pay attention to Meng Fan's game naturally know that one OK is equal to three seconds.
The third gold medal is the three events of individual judo, judo team and Greco-Roman wrestling.
The third Chinese athlete to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games, the first two are Li Ning, the "Prince of Gymnastics" who won the championship of free gymnastics, pommel horse and rings in the 84 Olympic Games, and Zou Kai, the "Hardware King" who won the championship of free gymnastics, horizontal bar and men's team in the 08 Olympic Games.
The third athlete to win Olympic gold in a major event, the first two of whom were American track and field athletes, Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis, crossed the same events, the long jump in track and field and the 100m dash in track.
These two events are also the most common cross-major events practiced together, both of which have extremely high requirements for speed and explosiveness, generally speaking, the long jump is not weak in sprinting, and vice versa, after all, the speed of you want to jump far and run must be fast.
Going a little further, like the city games or even the provincial games, it is more common for the two events to win the championship by the same person, and it is even more common to go down to school.
Of course, there is still a difference between the two, so the higher the level of the event, the less you can see it, after all, it is already very, very difficult to practice one of them.
For example, Usain Bolt won the 100m, 200m, and 4*100m championships for three consecutive years, but it is not called a cross-event, and Phelps won eight gold medals in an Olympic Games, but they are still in the swimming.
The physical fitness requirements required for a major sport are relatively close β don't use the shot put, hammer throw, high jump, and pole vault in the same field competition to lift the bar β so it's relatively easy to train in one major event, and even so, it's not easy to train multiple events and win the top event.
Like the champion of every event in the Olympic Games, almost all of them are in the extreme area of a certain area of the human body, and it goes without saying how difficult it is for a person to stand in the extreme area of human beings in one aspect, let alone multiple aspects.
This also shows the difficulty of crossing major events, which is why only two people were able to succeed across major events before Meng Fan, and they tried to concentrate on the field of "speed explosiveness" as much as possible.
And Meng Fan praised the two major events of judo and wrestling, maybe in the eyes of ordinary people, they are not all related to strength, in fact, people who really understand these two projects know very well that these are two completely different technical and tactical fields.
Of course, if you insist on saying that you will drop ten times with one force, then you can't help it.
Indeed, Meng Fan's "one force" is really far beyond the scope of what skills can dismantle.
Both wrestling and judo have the skills and tactics of defeating the strong with the weak, but the strength of Shemeng Fan is indeed a little weak in front of him.
If it is a champion in general strength events, such as weightlifting, such as the World Hercules competition, it is really useless to put it in these two events. But Meng Fan is different, after all, he is hanging, and he works hard!
If Meng Fan wins freestyle wrestling again, he will be the only player in history who has won the Olympic championship in classical freestyle, and if Meng Fan wins weightlifting, it will be the first Olympic champion in history across three major events!
If they all win, in terms of the number of gold medals, Meng Fan will also become the first player in Chinese history to win five gold medals in a single Olympic Games, and he is also one of the players who have won the most gold medals in Chinese history - Zou Kai, Chen Ruolin, and Wu Minxia have all won five gold medals.
He will also become one of the third-most gold medals in history at a single Olympic Games, with the most in a single edition being eight in Phelps '08 and the second most in '6 in '04, as well as Phelps '16, Finnish flyer Paavo Rumi in 1924 and Italian fencer Netdo Wadi in 1920.
On the 11th day of the 130kg Greco-Roman wrestling, the Kyoto International Forum building ushered in the final day of the Olympic Games, where the men's weightlifting 109kg and over 109kg champions will be decided.
The competition started at 15:30 in the afternoon, starting with the men's 109kg group B final.
As I said before, the difference between the weightlifting AB group finals is to divide the groups by the registration results, and the final ranking of the two groups of finals is completed, and it is basically difficult for the first place in the B group finals to enter the top eight of the final ranking, let alone win medals, so whether it is live broadcast or broadcast and news reports, group B has always been an insulator.
At the start of the 109kg Group B clean and jerk competition, the 109kg Group A competitors begin to weigh themselves β the weightlifting event is weighed one hour before the competition, and the wrestling is the day before the competition.
Yang Zhe is China's best performing large-level player in recent years, and has won the fourth place in the 16 Olympic Games, and has the strength to attack the medals. The snatch is his forte, having won the gold medal in the snatch at the '18 World Championships, but the clean and jerk was a bit worse, finishing fourth at the '18 World Championships, and the final overall result was silver.
Olympic weightlifting events are ranked only based on the overall score.
In the snatch competition, Yang Zhe finally withstood the pressure and lifted 198 kg, ranking first in the snatch, and also broke the world record in this class after the weight restructuring!
But in the clean and jerk competition, Yang Zhe's weakness was also revealed, although he created his best clean and jerk result, but 226 kg was only in fourth place in the clean and jerk, and the 240 kg of the Armenian runner who was the first in the clean and jerk was 14 kg, but fortunately, another favorite Georgian player failed to make two consecutive clean and jerk and finally missed the top three in the overall score, while Yang Zhe won a valuable bronze medal with a total score of 424.
Immediately followed by the men's 109 kg above group B competition, also in the process of the clean and jerk competition, Meng Fan and other athletes began to weigh.
After weighing, each athlete reports the weight of his snatch according to his own registration results, and the competition weight of the athletes according to the requirements cannot be less than 15 kg of the registration score.
Meng Fan's registration results are based on the last continental trials, which is not high, almost in the middle of the 12 players in Group A, and the reported snatch weight is relatively better, reporting a 208 kg, ranking third in all the opening weights. The favourite, current world record holder Rasha Talahadez of Georgia, is the top opener at 213kg.
The world record is 217kg, and the Georgian had grabbed 220kg in the 105kg and above category.
The Group B game ended quickly, and it was Group A's turn, and the broadcast or something was immediately accessed.
"CCTV, CCTV! Now the game for you is ....... Judging from the reported opening weight, my country's player Meng Fan is in third place...... At the start of the competition, the first competitor to appear was a player from the Northern Dynasty, who had a starting weight of 192 kg...... It was very smooth, no problems, and the results worked. It can be seen that his strength is still more than that, and he may be able to increase his weight to more than 200 kilograms. β
β...... Now it's Iran's turn, and he has a starting weight of 206kg...... Hey, it's a pity, the elbow was bent, and the referee lit up two red lights. He didn't change the weight, and the second attempt was still the same weight...... Success!"
"The next player to play is my country's player Meng Fan...... Wait, it seems to be a change. Zhan Xugang, the coach of Meng Fan who appeared in the camera, must be familiar to the audience of weightlifting, and he is also an Olympic champion..... Yes, it is indeed changed to 214 kilograms, which means that Meng Fan will play behind Talahades!"
On the field, because of Meng Fan's temporary weight change, the Kazakhstani player, who was originally ranked second in the opening row, could only appear in advance and successfully grabbed 208 kg.
Then the favourite Talahadez came on the court, and he did not change his strategy because of Meng Fan's weight change, and he successfully lifted 213kg after coming on the court, ensuring a guaranteed result.
...... Dean Zhan's side changed the weight again - there are two opportunities to change the weight in a trial lift - this time it was directly changed to 218 kg, which is the super world record score scored by Meng Fan in China!
As a result, the Kazakh athlete had to play again, and twice in a row failed to lift 215kg.
Tara Hadez weighed in at 217 kilograms, which is his previous world record.
He had never encountered the experience of someone not playing when he was about to grab the second hand, and Meng Fan's change of weight suddenly disrupted his rhythm.
To be honest, he was a little unsure of Meng Fan!
Change, he's ready to change!