On the evening of August 7, Beijing time, in the 2024 Paris Olympics weightlifting event, the Chinese weightlifting team made its debut to hit the first gold, and Li Fabin appeared in the men's 61kg gold medal match. After the snatch was completed, Li Fabin had established an 8 kg advantage, and there was no suspense in the clean and jerk, Li Fabin finally broke the Olympic record and won the championship and defended his title domineeringly! The Chinese weightlifting team ushered in a good start, and Li Fabin won the 23rd gold medal of this Olympic Games for China!
Our main opponents: Indonesia's Irawan, United States' Morris. In the last Tokyo Olympics, Li Fabin defeated Irawan to win the championship. Although the young Morris is relatively weak in the snatch, he is very strong in the clean and jerk, and previously broke the world record held by Li Fabin with 176kg.
In terms of registration results: Li Fabin snatch 135 + clean and jerk 169, Irawan 135 + 165, Morris 125 + 170, the gold medal battle is expected to be between these three people. At this level, Li Fabin is the world record holder in the snatch + total score, and Morris is the world record holder in the clean and jerk.
Snatch stage: Team United States Morris lifted 122 kg in the first place, failed in the second 125 kg, lifted 126 kg in the third, and the result was fixed at 126 kg; Last Olympic Games runner-up Irawan failed to lift the first 135 kg, the second successfully lifted, the third 139 kg failed, and the final result was 135 kg; Li Fabin lifted 137kg in the first hand, 140kg in the second and 143kg in the third and broke his own Olympic record! Obviously, Li Fabin is in very good shape today! In this way, Li Fabin has already established an 8-kilogram lead in the snatch stage.
Clean and jerk stage: Irawan took the lead, the first two attempts of 162 kg all failed, in order to be able to slow down, the third time was added to 165 kg, but Thailand's Sirachai also directly added to 167 kg, forcing Irawan to play in a row, 165 kg still failed; Li Fabin couldn't lift 167 kg, and after a little slowdown, Li Fabin's second attempt of 167 kg was successfully lifted and locked the gold medal!