Chen Lijun was sure that he would not be able to participate in the Paris Olympics! In the brutal competition between the two weightlifting heroes, Li Fabin won

The 2024 Weightlifting World Cup is being held in Phuket, Thailand, and this is the most important match of the Chinese weightlifting team before the Paris Olympics. According to the Olympic squad selection method previously announced by the team, this World Cup is also the last team selection match, which is very important.

In the men's 61kg event, the competition was fierce, and the Chinese team sent two Olympic champions, Li Fabin and Chen Lijun, to participate, and finally Li Fabin won the snatch and overall championships, and broke the snatch world record and locked the Olympic qualification;

Li Fabin

At the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, Li Fabin won the gold medal in the men's 61kg class, and Chen Lijun won the gold medal in the men's 67kg class. However, in the Paris cycle, the men's 67kg class was not listed as an Olympic class, and Chen Lijun had to lower his weight to participate in the 61kg class, which is not easy for the 31-year-old veteran.

In this World Cup in Thailand, in order to lose weight, Chen Lijun lost 1.7 kilograms in the sauna the day before the game, and he didn't eat much in Phuket in the past few days, which greatly affected his physical condition.

Chen Lijun

However, the results of the competition were not ideal. Chen Lijun lost a lot of energy and strength after losing weight sharply, failed three attempts in the snatch, and then withdrew from the clean and jerk competition.

In the end, Li Fabin won two gold medals in the snatch and total score with a snatch of 146 kg, a clean and jerk of 166 kg, and a total score of 312 kg. The 20-year-old Morris of the United States broke the world record in the clean and jerk originally held by Li Fabin with 176 kilograms and won the gold medal in the clean and jerk, and Li Fabin ranked fifth in the clean and jerk. Morris won the silver medal with a total of 303 kilograms.

At present, Li Fabin maintains an absolute lead in the intra-team competition, and has shown excellent form in the World Cup, basically qualifying for the Paris Olympics.

Chen Lijun missed the Olympics, and after the game, he left a sentence: "I'll go back to take the cubs!"

On August 4, 2022, Chen Lijun and his wife were overjoyed. At the Asian Games last year, Chen Lijun held his daughter on the podium. Now, he's going back to his family.

After the game, Li Fabin expressed his admiration for his good brother, he said that it was not easy for Chen Lijun to lose so much weight to participate in the Olympic Games, and he basically did not eat after coming to Thailand, which was very hard, and competitive sports were really cruel; from a personal point of view, Li Fabin said that he could not afford to lose, so he could only fight with all his might.

(Michau Sports)