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https://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/317866/

 

Armenian lifter Varazdat Lalayan named world champion

December 16, 2024 - 13:59 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia’s Varazdat Lalayan won gold in the super heavyweight category of the World Weightlifting Championships in Bahrain, becoming the world champion for the first time.

Lalayan, 25, won a small gold medal in the snatch and a small bronze medal in the clean and jerk.

Gor Minasyan, an Armenian lifter representing Bahrain and competing in the same weight category, won a small silver medal in the snatch event after lifting 210 kg above his head.

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https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1150783/lalayan-super-heavyweight-world-champion

 

Manama 2024: Lalayan new super-heavyweight king

 

• By Rafael Khalatyan
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•  Monday, 16 December 2024

 

 

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The 2024 World Weightlifting Championships in Manama, Bahrain, concluded on Sunday with the men's and women's super-heavyweight categories. 

Armenia's Varazdat Lalayan became the first world champion in the men's +109 kg category after the era of Lasha Talakhadze's dominance. China's Li Yan stormed into the women's +87 kg category with a new world record.

Paris 2024 silver medallist Lalayan was the main gold medal contender, with fellow Paris 2024 bronze medallist Gor Minasyan, representing Bahrain, expected to challenge him, while Iran's Ali Davoudi and Alireza Yousefi could spoil his day with their strong clean & jerks.

Lalayan was perfect in the snatch, making all three attempts and finishing with an impressive 215 kg, while Minasyan, who has the second-best snatch in the history of weightlifting (217 kg) after Talakhadze, failed on his third attempt at 215 kg and finished with 210 kg, only four kg ahead of Davoudi, who has a much better clean & jerk. Yousefi set a new career best in the snatch with 194 kg.

Lalayan was also impressive in the clean & jerk. He started with 245 kg, failed at 252 kg, but managed to lift the bar on his third attempt and finished with 467 kg, repeating his career best from Paris. This was enough to win bronze in the clean & jerk and gold overall, making Lalayan the first Armenian ever to win a world title in the super-heavyweight category. Although Armenia has always had strong heavyweight lifters such as Ara Vardanyan, Ashot Danielyan, Ruben Aleksanyan, and Gor Minasyan, none of them was able to win gold medals at the World Championships. He is also the 19th super-heavyweight since 1969 to win the world title and the first in the post-Talakhadze era, which lasted from 2015 to 2024. 

Gor Minasyan of Bahrain failed to win a big medal in total for the hosts. GETTY IMAGES

Minasyan and Davoudi failed their first two attempts in the clean & jerk. Minasyan managed to lift 245 kg on his third attempt, while Davoudi, after failing twice at 250 kg, lifted 253 kg and secured the silver medal with a total of 459 kg. 

The 21-year-old Yousefi secured gold in the clean & jerk with his second attempt at 258 kg, and on his third attempt, he lifted 262 kg to beat Minasyan's total and claim bronze. The 262 kg in the clean and jerk is only 5 kg short of Talakhadze's world record, and Yousefi has plenty of time to improve.

Another youngster, Ali Rubaiawi from Iraq, was fourth in the snatch and clean & jerk and fifth in the total. He improved his own Junior World records in the snatch (204 kg) by 4 kg and the total (451 kg) by 14 kg, which he set at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. He also renewed Yousefi's Junior World record in the clean & jerk (247 kg) by one kg. 

Rubaiawi and Yousefi could pose a major problem for the favourites in the super-heavyweight category in the new Olympic cycle. As will Li Yan, the new women's super heavyweight champion. 

The 20-year-old came out of nowhere, having never competed in the IWF before the World Championships, and is now China's great hope for the new Olympic cycle.

20-years-old Ali Rubaiawi set new junior world records. IWF

She renewed the world record in the snatch of her compatriot, Paris 2024 champion Li Wenwen, lifting 149 kg on her third attempt. She was also the best in the clean & jerk with 175 kg. Her total of 324 kg was 29 kg more than silver medallist Park Hye-jeong. The Paris 2024 runner-up also finished second in Manama, while her teammate Son Young-hee took bronze.

China topped the men's team event with 566 points, followed by Iran (560 points) and North Korea (495 kg).

In the women's competition, North Korea were the best with 776 points, 63 points ahead of China. Colombia was third with 566 points.

North Korea also topped the overall Big (total) medal table with nine gold, five silver and two bronze medals. All of the North Korean athletes who competed in Manama returned home with medals. China came second with four gold, two silver and three bronze medals. Kazakhstan came third with two gold and one silver. Asia dominated the competition with 17 gold medals across the 20 weight categories. Bulgaria, USA and Armenia were the only three non-Asian countries to win gold medals. 

The IWF will hold the next World Championships in October 2025 in Førde, Norway, with new bodyweight categories.  In the men's competition, they will be: 60kg, 65kg, 71kg, 79kg, 88kg, 98kg, 110kg, and +110kg, and for women the new categories will be: 48kg, 53kg, 58kg, 63kg, 69kg, 77kg, 86kg, +86kg.