Yoo Dong-ju, 5th place in IWF World Cup men's 89kg class Jump to 10th place in Olympic rankings
Korean weightlifting representative Yoo Dong-ju
Yoo Dong-ju (30, Jinan County Office) raised his ranking for participation in the 2024 Paris Olympics from 17th to 10th.
Yoo Dong-ju lifted 166kg in snatch, 209kg in clean and jerk, and 375kg in total at the 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Cup men's 89kg competition held in Phuket, Thailand on the 6th (local time).
On this day, Yoo Dong-ju ranked 8th in the snatch, but ranked 5th in the clean and jerk, and also took 5th place in the all-important total.
The IWF World Cup is the last competition to increase your ranking for participation in the Paris Olympics.
Yoo Dong-ju, who appeared on the Olympic stage in succession in Rio de Janeiro (14th place) in 2016 and Tokyo (8th place) in 2021, raised her ranking for participation in the Paris Olympics to 10th place in this competition and is qualified to participate in the Olympics for the third time in a row.
12 athletes in each weight class will compete in the weightlifting competition at the Paris Olympics.
However, Yoo Dong-ju's trip to Paris has not yet been confirmed.
The IWF limited the quota for each country for the Paris Olympics to a maximum of six, three men and three women.
After calculating the Olympic rankings, the Korea Weightlifting Federation will select six athletes to participate in the Paris Olympics by evaluating their ‘potential to win a medal’.
Yoo Dong-ju can only predict whether he will participate in the Paris Olympics when the rankings of Korean male athletes in other weight classes are confirmed.
On this day, in the men's 89kg class, Carlos Nassar (19, Bulgaria) lifted a total of 396kg (181kg in snatch, 215kg in jerk and jerk), followed by Yeason Lopez (25, Colombia) with a total of 392kg (182kg in snatch, 210kg in jerk and jerk). ) and won.
In the men's 81kg class, North Korea's Lee Cheongsong (26) won with an overwhelming record of 166kg in snatch, 200kg in jerk and jerk, and 366kg in total.
The record of Maksad Meredov (23, Turkmenistan), who ranked second in this weight class, was 328 kg (146 kg in snatch, 182 kg in clean and jerk).
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