Qatar’s Fares Ibrahim was far from his best but still showed enough class to clinch gold at the 2022 Asian Weightlifting Championships in Manama, Bahrain Saturday.
The Tokyo Olympic 96kg champion, moving up to the Paris 2024 weight category of 102kg, lifted 171 in snatch and 215 in clean and jerk for a total of 386. The 24-year-old was back on the stage for the first time since December last year.
Fares failed with two of his snatches and declined to take his final two clean and jerks, but two lifts were enough for him to finish well clear of the rest of the field.
Iran’s Dehdar Reza with a total lift of 372kgs (snatch: 170 and clean and jerk 202) took silver, while the bronze medal went to Uzbekistan’s Sharofiddin Amriddinov after the junior world champion finished with 368kgs (snatch: 172KG and clean and jerk 196).
With the first qualifying event for Paris 2024 - the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Colombia - in December, many of Asia's top athletes decided against competing in Bahrain, which is hosting a major weightlifting competition for the first time.
Meanwhile, 96kg World Champion and World Record holder in the snatch Lesman Paredes secured his fifth straight victory and gave Bahrain its first major success in weightlifting. Paredes has recently switched his allegiance to Bahrain from his home country Colombia.
Paredes lifted a career-best clean and jerk and a total of 397kg, only 3kg short of his winning total at the 2021 World Championships.
Paredes total of 397kg put him clear of Chen Po-Jen of Chinese Taipei, who held on to second place when Kazakhstan's Artyom Antropov failed with his final attempt.
The Tokyo Olympic 96kg champion, moving up to the Paris 2024 weight category of 102kg, lifted 171 in snatch and 215 in clean and jerk for a total of 386. The 24-year-old was back on the stage for the first time since December last year.
Fares failed with two of his snatches and declined to take his final two clean and jerks, but two lifts were enough for him to finish well clear of the rest of the field.
Iran’s Dehdar Reza with a total lift of 372kgs (snatch: 170 and clean and jerk 202) took silver, while the bronze medal went to Uzbekistan’s Sharofiddin Amriddinov after the junior world champion finished with 368kgs (snatch: 172KG and clean and jerk 196).
With the first qualifying event for Paris 2024 - the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Colombia - in December, many of Asia's top athletes decided against competing in Bahrain, which is hosting a major weightlifting competition for the first time.
Meanwhile, 96kg World Champion and World Record holder in the snatch Lesman Paredes secured his fifth straight victory and gave Bahrain its first major success in weightlifting. Paredes has recently switched his allegiance to Bahrain from his home country Colombia.
Paredes lifted a career-best clean and jerk and a total of 397kg, only 3kg short of his winning total at the 2021 World Championships.
Paredes total of 397kg put him clear of Chen Po-Jen of Chinese Taipei, who held on to second place when Kazakhstan's Artyom Antropov failed with his final attempt.
