Super upset! Weightlifting World Championships Li Wenwen gutter capsized, the first time in four years, why?

In terms of the superiority of winning the championship, the world's No. 1 women's strong man Li Wenwen called two, no one dares to claim one, and she won the last World Championships held last year with a huge advantage of 24 kilograms. However, in the women's 87 kg and above competition of the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships performed on the evening of September 16, Li Wenwen capsized in the gutter, this giant actually lost, and it was lost in a way without results, which can be called a super upset in the weightlifting arena!

Li Wenwen is 23 years old, not to look old, she was on the podium of the Tokyo Olympics two years ago and was crowned world champion for the first time four years ago. Li Wenwen has been invincible since her debut for 4 years, whether in the Olympic Games, World Championships, Asian Championships, and National Games. The women's over-87 kg snatch, jerk and overall world titles are written in her name.

Boldness of execution stems from superb skill. This year's World Championships women's 87 kg and above competition kicked off, the first snatch competition, when the other participating athletes three trials basically ended, Li Wenwen has not yet appeared in the arena, her open bar weight is 130 kg, lift her snatch position is to sit two and look one, strong enough.

Maybe the weight is a little light, when Li Wenwen pulled the bar above her head, she accidentally pulled it over her head, and the bar fell back and failed! The second took her to challenge 130 kg again, and she was even more unlucky and injured her elbow. The third test can only choose to give up, no results.

It was unexpectedly to end the trip to the World Championships in this way, but it also reminded Chinese weightlifting that it is necessary to make a more detailed, detailed, and detailed competition plan in the future. What to do if the head boss fails, and come up with a more scientific and detailed response plan to prevent accidents.

The gutters of the World Series overturned, Li Wenwen was the first time, the Chinese weightlifting team was not the first time, and even had several accidental losses of Olympic gold medals. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Chen Lijun lost too much weight and caused pre-competition cramps, and Li Yajun did not know that the referee determined that she lost the first attempt in the jerk, and the last two continued to add weights and lost both resulting in no results in the jerk; At the Tokyo Olympics two years ago, Liao Qiuyun regretted to pass by the gold medal because his tactics were too conservative...

Compared with the above three famous athletes, Li Wenwen's women's 87kg and above category can be called the most advantageous weightlifting event in China at present.

First, Li Wenwen's strength is outstanding. The three champions of the snatch, jerk and overall results decided last night were 124 kg, 165 kg and 289 kg respectively, and the three world records held by Li Wenwen were 148 kg, 187 kg and 335 kg.

Second, the strength gap between large-level players is much larger than that of lightweight fighters, showing a trend that the larger the level, the larger the gap. Hou Zhihui, who won the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, has already entered the team list and flew to Rio with the delegation. At this time, the Russian weightlifting team was banned due to a doping incident, which meant that the first women's weightlifting powerlifting at that time, Russia's Kashrina did not participate in the competition, which made Meng Suping, the world's second largest powerhouse, suddenly become the largest women's weightlifting giant at that time. In the face of changes in the situation, the Chinese weightlifting team made sufficient rules and decided to let Meng Suping replace Hou Zhihui at the last minute, and the personnel change maximized the insurance coefficient of the national lifting gold medal.

However, no matter how big the advantage and how high the insurance coefficient is, everything is based on the results of the competition, Li Wenwen lost the gold medal last night, and this tuition fee is a bit high. Having said that, for the decision-makers of the Chinese weightlifting team and Li Wenwen, this unexpected loss may be a good thing, reminding them that the competitive arena is unpredictable, and any one event has no 100% probability of winning gold even if the advantage is great, Chen Lijun, Li Yajun, Liao Qiuyun are like this, and Li Wenwen is also like this.

A lesson from the past, a lesson for the future. I hope that the Chinese weightlifting team will not make such low-level mistakes again.