On September 16, the 14th Games weightlifting competition kicked off at the Stadium of Weinan Sports Center in Shaanxi Province, and the women's 49 kg competition was held on the first weightlifting day, and the Tokyo Olympic champion Hou Zhihui won the championship with a snatch of 96 kg, a deadlift of 118 kg and a total of 214 kg. However, despite the blessing of the Olympic champion status, Hou Zhihui's gold medal was not easy to win, and Jiang Huihua, a famous player in the Chinese weightlifting team and a player from Guangxi, launched the most powerful challenge to Hou Zhihui.
Hou Zhihui (right) won the championship and Deng Fangjia photographed
In this game, Hou Zhihui grabbed the lift and safely chose 89 kg. The first attempt was the first appearance of Hou Zhihui's return from the Tokyo Olympic Games, and she appeared very calm and confident when she stepped onto the high stage, grabbing magnesium powder and inhaling with great general demeanor. The audience was even more powerful, and when Hou Zhihui appeared, she sounded the cheers of the mountain and the tsunami, and her popularity was bursting when she returned from winning the gold, and the world record for grabbing this level was the 96 kg created by Hou Zhihui in the 2021 Weightlifting Asian Championships.
Hou Zhihui in the game Deng Fangjia photo
In the first test, Hou Zhihui steadily lifted 89 kilograms, but Jiang Huihua raised 90 kilograms. In the second attempt, Hou Zhihui successfully challenged 94 kilograms, which was the result of Hou Zhihui's victory at the Tokyo Olympic Games. On the other side, Jiang Huihua lifted 93 kilograms and chased Hou Zhihui. The third test was successfully completed by Jiang Huihua, who selected 95 kilograms. In the third move, Hou Zhihui chose 96 kg and finally lifted steadily, leading by 1 kg to enter the deadlift competition.
In the deadlift competition, Hou Zhihui chose 111 kg in the first move and lifted it, and Jiang Huihua lifted 113 kg in the first move. In the second move, Hou Zhihui took the lead in lifting 116 kilograms, which was also the result of her victory at the Tokyo Olympics. The second move, Jiang Huihua, directly challenged 118 kg successfully, which gave Hou Zhihui great pressure. In the third move, Hou Zhihui must choose to impact 118 kg, otherwise he will not be able to win the championship. Hou Zhihui's personal deadlift best was originally 117 kilograms set at the 2021 Asian Weightlifting Championships, and this time she had to break through herself. In the third attempt, Hou Zhihui stabilized his mentality, successfully lifted 118 kilograms, and once again threw the pressure to Jiang Huihua.
Jiang Huihua in the game Deng Fangjia photo
For Jiang Huihua, even if the choice of 119 kg is successful, the overall result is only to chase Hou Zhihui, she will be in the second place because of the later creation of this result, so Jiang Huihua must choose at least 120 kg to win the championship, and this level of the world record is 119 kg set by India's Mirabai. Jiang Huihua chose 120 kilograms in the third move, but the weight was too large, and she failed to lift successfully, and finally won the runner-up.
The national games victory was 4 kilograms higher than the Olympic victory, Hou Zhihui said that it was because of "going home", she said: "Back in China, I feel very warm, down-to-earth, and my mentality is more stable." Coupled with the fact that the competition at the National Games is really fierce, even more intense than the Olympic Games, this also contributed to my good result. ”