China dominates 2025 Asian Weightlifting Championships with 31 medals
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
The 2025 Asian Weightlifting Championships concluded in Jiangshan, Zhejiang Province, on Thursday, with team China securing 31 gold, 15 silver, and 11 bronze medals. The host nation capped off its dominant performance with a golden sweep by world champion Li Yan on the final day of competition.
In the women’s +87kg category, Li faced a star-studded opponents including Paris Olympic silver medalist Park Hyejeong of South Korea. “The results might seem close on paper, but I knew I had the edge,” said the confident Chinese lifter.
Her confidence is not without reason. Li entered the snatch segment as the final competitor and clinched gold outright with her opening lift of 135kg, then she lifted 140kg, finishing a commanding 15kg ahead of Park (125kg). South Korea’s Son Younghee claimed bronze with 121kg.
Li successfully lifted 162kg and 170kg before passing her third attempt in clean and jerk. Her total of 310kg secured a clean sweep of gold medals in snatch, clean and jerk, and total weight. Park took silver in total (285kg) and bronze in clean and jerk (160kg), while Son earned clean and jerk silver (161kg) and total bronze (282kg).
In the men’s +109kg division, South Korea’s Hwang Wooman claimed snatch gold (196kg). Iran’s Sharifikelarijani Ayat secured clean and jerk (227kg) and total (422kg) golds.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
