Weightlifting is present at almost all Olympic Games. Among women, competitions have been held since 2000, beginning with the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney. Competitions consist of lifting weights in two ways: snatch and clean and jerk.
Participants in weightlifting games
260 weightlifters will attend the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Among them there will be 156 men and 104 women. Several championships will be held, in total 15 sets of medals will be played. 10 people, 6 men and 4 women, can participate from one country. The number of athletes in one weight category is no more than two. Otherwise the choice of weightlifters for summer Olympic Games not limited.
- Up to 56 kg;
- Up to 62 kg;
- Up to 69 kg;
- Up to 77 kg;
- Up to 85 kg;
- Up to 94 kg;
- Up to 105 kg;
- More than 105 kg.
- Up to 48 kg;
- Up to 53 kg;
- Up to 58 kg;
- Up to 63 kg;
- Up to 69 kg;
- Up to 75 kg;
- More than 75 kg.
The selection of athletes takes place at continental and world championships. Each of them counts as a qualifying tournament. At the beginning of June, the qualification of the competition has not been fully completed, so many future participants who will be hosted by the Olympics are still unknown.
Weightlifting competition calendar
On each day there will be a final competition in one or more categories. Weightlifting competition schedule:
- Aug 6: women up to 48 kg;
- Aug 7: women up to 53 kg, men up to 56 kg;
- Aug 8: women up to 58 kg, men up to 62 kg;
- Aug 9: women up to 63 kg, men up to 69 kg;
- Aug 10: women up to 69 kg, men up to 77 kg;
- Aug 12: women up to 75 kg, men up to 85 kg;
- Aug 13: men up to 94 kg;
- Aug 14: women over 75 kg;
- Aug 15: men up to 105 kg;
- Aug 16: men over 105 kg.
Venue of the competition: Riocentro complex.
Weightlifting athletes perform snatch and clean and jerk. A snatch is a lifting of the bar in one motion overhead. This sport presupposes the possibility of different execution techniques, depending on who it is more convenient for whom: to put their feet together or separately, along which trajectory to direct the barbell. But when the weight is taken, the weightlifter cannot just drop it to the floor. He must stand up straight and wait for the referee to whistle to signal that the weight has been taken. Only then can the athlete lower the barbell.
The jerk is the other way to lift the weight. The barbell should be raised and placed on your chest. After the referee's whistle, it can be lifted up.
Barbell sizes are different for men and women. The male bar has a weight of 20 kg, the female bar - 15.
The competition takes place as follows. The first step is to put on the heaviest discs available on the neck. After that, progressively lighter weights are put on. The athlete is given three attempts per exercise. If the weight does not work out, the athlete is eliminated from the competition.
Russian athletes have companions in misfortune. Weightlifting representatives are also unlikely to be able to compete at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The reason is the same as that of the "queen of sports" - big problems with doping.
Alarming news came on Wednesday evening from Tbilisi, where the congress of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is taking place. On the first day of the event, completely dedicated to the problems of doping, the Executive Committee made a number of important decisions.
There are two news for the Russian national team - bad and very bad. Let's start with the first one. The IWF officially redistributed the Olympic quotas that were provided to countries at the end of the 2015 World Cup. Then, we will remind, the Russian athletes initially received the right to go to Rio with the largest team of six men and four girls.
However, it soon became known about the failure of doping tests in four Russians at once, whose results influenced the distribution of quotas. Received disqualifications, and. Six months later, the IWF decided to take away from Russia one Olympic ticket from each sex. At best, five men and three girls will now go to Rio.
But there is also some very bad news. The Executive Board ruled that if a country’s representatives failed at least three doping tests following a recent sample cross-check from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, they would be suspended for a year and automatically skip the Olympics in Rio.
Three national teams fall under this article - Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Russian athletes violated anti-doping rules at least three times. The doping tests of Marina Shainova and Nadezhda Estyukhina in 2008, as well as Apti in 2012, were positive. They all have various anabolic steroids. All three should lose the Olympic medals they won - Shainov and Aukhad's silver, and Evstyukhina's bronze.
Belarusians also have three positive tests - from, Marina Shkermankova and. All were caught in 2012. Kazakhstan has the most sad situation - the country should lose five gold medals at once, which they won at both Olympics, as well as Zulfiya Chinshailo and those who won in London.
However, there is still a small hope that Russian weightlifters will go to Rio, and the IWF itself admits it. First of all, you need to fully prove that all three athletes used prohibited substances.
For this, both the "A" and "B" samples must show a positive result. In the case of Shainova and Yevstyukhina, the clarity is already complete - anabolics were found in both of their analyzes. The autopsy results for Aukhadov's B sample are still unknown. There is a tiny hope that she will give a negative result, and then the Russian national team will be "carried over".
There is a precedent - the athlete and the rower got off with fright after rechecking the Beijing samples. Their "A" samples were positive and their "B" samples negative.
However, if it is nevertheless proven that Aukhadov, the 2013 world champion and the bronze medalist of the last world championship, took steroids, then the Russian weightlifting team will remain at home for the entire next year. The likelihood of this is very high, and the end in this matter will be put in the coming days. For example, it is already known that Ilyin's B sample taken in London gave a positive result. Aukhadov should also check soon.
Athletes also found themselves in a similar difficult situation. On June 17, the Council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) upheld the ban on the participation of Russians in international competitions, including the Olympic Games.
However, some of the subjects of the "queen of sports" still hope to get to Rio. June 21 announced that the IAAF may make an exception for individual athletes who have never violated the rules and have undergone enhanced testing.
The same right to selective disqualification remains with the IWF. However, it is hoped that some Russian contenders for Olympic medals, such as world champions and will be able to take advantage of this, is hardly necessary. The IWF has repeatedly disqualified entire countries in the past and made no exceptions.
By the way, separately, following the results of the first day of the congress, members of the IWF condemned the appointment of the President of the Russian Weightlifting Federation, Sergei Syrtsov, to the post of head of the anti-doping committee in the European Weightlifting Federation. Over the past six years that he has been in charge of Russian weightlifting, the number of athletes caught on doping is growing almost every month, and it is strange that they were not removed from the Olympics even earlier, and there is still little hope for a different outcome.
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The official decision to remove domestic weightlifters was published on the IWF website. The verdict on imposing such a tough sanction was passed by the executive council of the federation.
The IWF noted that eight Russian weightlifters were supposed to go to Rio, but two of them, Tatyana Kashirina and Anastasia Romanova, were excluded from the application by the Russian Olympic Committee, after it announced that domestic athletes with doping history would not be able to take participation in the Olympic Games-2016.
Four more of our weightlifters appeared in the report of Richard McLaren.
The IWF also recalled that banned substances were found in the blood of seven Russian Olympic weightlifters in 2008 and 2012.
“To date, Russian weightlifters have found seven positive-doping samples, studied as a result of the combined process of rechecking of doping tests of the Games in London and Beijing, while the second wave of rechecking of the Olympic Games 2008 is not yet completed and is not at the stage when names and countries can be publicly disclosed, ”the statement said.
The IWF especially noted that they were forced to remove Russia in order not to “spoil the reputation of the sport”.
“The integrity of weightlifting as a sport has been violated many times and at various levels by representatives of Russia. Therefore, it was decided to apply appropriate sanctions to protect our sport, ”the IWF says on its website.
It is reported that the quotas inherited by domestic representatives will be distributed among weightlifters from Albania, Georgia, Moldova, Belgium, Croatia, El Salvador, Mongolia and Serbia.
In Russia, the decision of the IWF was met, to put it mildly, with misunderstanding. So, the ex-head coach of the national weightlifting team David Rigert accused international federation in "banditry".
“This is absolutely unfair. This is real banditry. They feel their impunity.
Yes, they sinned, but not enough to remove them from the Olympics. Moreover, not only our country has problems.
For a whole generation of athletes, that's all, the finish line. Someone will end their career, someone may not stand it. Somewhere in the localities there will be not very smart people to reap from all sides, "R-Sport quotes Rigert.
Note that in addition to the silver medalist of London Kashirina and the medalist of the World Championship Romanova, the bronze medalist of London Ruslan Albegov, whose doping test from the Olympic Games-2012 turned out to be positive, lost his chances to go to the Olympic Games in advance.
Information about this became in fact a verdict for the Russian national weightlifting team, because earlier the IWF stated that the Russian Weightlifting Federation (FTAR), as well as other federations, would face a one-year disqualification if at least three samples from the 2008 and 2012 Games turn out to be positive after rechecking.
At that time, positive “B” doping tests were detected in just three Russians: Nadezhda Evstyukhina, Marina Shainova and Apti Aukhadov.
A little later, positive results were given by samples from OI-2012 in four more domestic weightlifters: Natalia Zabolotnaya, Svetlana Tsarukayeva, Alexander Ivanov and Andrey Demanov.
Despite the disappointing news, head Alexander Zhukov optimistically stated that three Russian weightlifters should go to Rio.
“There will be a small team in weightlifting, probably three people,” Zhukov told TASS.
Unfortunately, the forecasts of the functionary were not destined to come true, and the weightlifting team will become the first Russian team completely removed from the Games, because the same athletes will be represented at least by Daria Klishina.
Note that the sword of Damocles hung over the domestic weightlifters at the end of December last year, when four Russians were caught using prohibited substances, including the hero last championship world Alexey Lovchev.
Lovchev, who set two world records in Houston, immediately called the incident a political action.
Later, the athlete was disqualified for four years and filed an appeal with the Lausanne Court of Arbitration for Sport, which did not help Alexei "cut off the term."
Then Lovchev blamed the Canadian laboratory for everything, where, according to him, they made a mistake, mistaking the permitted ecdisten for the prohibited ipamorelin.
“If I took ipamorelin, then metabolites should be found in my analysis, you cannot hide them, but they are not found. There are several more factors that prove my correctness and the mistake of the laboratory in Montreal. Yes, the blow is strong, but we keep it, we haven't stopped training. We hope that justice will prevail in the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, ”Lovchev told Match TV before filing an appeal.
After an unsuccessful appeal to the CAS, the athlete was appointed sports advisor to the governor of the Vladimir region.
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Everything you need to know about weightlifting before the Olympics.
The Olympics (especially the summer ones) are rapidly degrading - the fault is not only doping and the total number of fraudsters, but also the doping control system itself. It is controversial, imperfect and definitely kills the audience's interest. Sport chops off itself, “chops off” athletes' heads and loses fans.
One can argue for a long time whether it is necessary to store samples for 8 years, endlessly recheck them, develop new methods of raids, but ... I don’t want to watch Games, where much is not clean, where you are deceived for your own money; or you're wasting your time with a farce.
Just imagine.
August 4, 2012. London... You bought a ticket to the weightlifting hall (what if something like this happened to you) or you settled comfortably in front of the TV - weight category up to 94 kg. Records were set, powerful weights were taken, medals were played, hymns were sung.
And after 4 years, it turns out that 6 of the 8 best athletes in this weight category were doping. Someone earlier, someone later, someone during the Games.
Look at this picture carefully and ... be horrified:
And next time think hard: is it worth wasting time on THIS, which is always lacking for much more important matters?
Talk about the fact that everyone takes doping, but not everyone is caught, we will leave it for another discussion.
Or another example. More important to us. Soon the fate of Russian weightlifters will be decided - will they be allowed to the Games in Rio. And judging by the latest news, with so many positive samples you will have to stay at home. Yesterday, after rechecking the London doping tests, we have new defendants.
Here is the list by name:
Beijing 2008
Marina Shainova (silver in weight up to 58 kg)
Nadezhda Evstyukhina (bronze in weight up to 75 kg)
London 2012
Svetlana Tsarukaeva (silver in the weight up to 63 kg)
Natalia Zabolotnaya (silver in weight up to 75 kg)
Apti Aukhadov (silver in weight up to 85 kg)
Alexander Ivanov (silver in weight up to 94 kg)
Andrey Demanov (4th place in weight up to 94 kg)
Outside the Olympics
Valentina Popova
Irina Sibetova
Vasily Polovnikov
Valeria Kaverina
Yuri Selyutin
Daria Goltsova
Dmitry Lapikov
Vladislav Lukanin
Natalia Khlestkina
Anastasia Romanova
Marina Shainova
Olga Zubova
Maxim Sheiko
Olga Afanasyeva
Ilya Atnabaev
Artem Grigoryan
Denis Kekhter
Alexey Kosov
Alexey Lovchev
Olga Zubova
Finally, the third important point: President of the Russian Weightlifting Federation Sergey Syrtsov- Chairman of the Anti-Doping Commission of the European Weightlifting Federation.
However, main news about weightlifting you already.
On August 9, at the Olympic Games in Rio, weightlifters competed for two sets of awards, one each for men and women.
First women in the weight category up to 63kg determined the winners. Here, an unconditional victory over rivals, with a difference of 14 kg, was won by the Chinese woman Deng Wei, her total is 262 kg.
The national team of Kazakhstan did not remain without medals in this weight, Karina Goricheva brought another bronze medal Olympic Games 2016. Amount of Karina Goricheva - 243kg
Men competed for awards in weight up to 69kg here, as well as among women, the Chinese athlete SHI Zhiyong won, although his amount was only 1 kg higher than the result of Daniyar Ismayilov, a Turkmen athlete currently playing for Turkey. Ismayilov is in second place with an amount of 351kg.
Following the Turkish citizens, Izzat Artykov, the representative of Kyrgyzstan, comfortably settled down on the third step of the Olympic pedestal, his bronze sum at the Olympics in Rio is 339kg!
Weightlifting, Olympic Games 2016 - results
Women's 63kg, Olympic Result1) DENG Wei (China) - 262kg
2) CHOE Hyo Sim (North Korea) - 248
3) Karina Goricheva (Kazakhstan) - 243
Full results: (Downloads: 27)
Men's 69kg, 2016 Olympics result
1) SHI Zhiyong (China) - 352kg
2) Daniyar Ismayilov (Turkey) - 351
3) Izzat Artykov (Kyrgyzstan) - 339
Full results:
