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On one leg.
Chinese weightlifter Li Fabin not only won the lifting gold medal of weights in the category of 80 during this weekend week, but managed to lift
Occurred during his first attempt at the clean and jerk – weightlifting is divided into two tests: snatch and clean and jerk – where the athlete must hold the weight with his whole body.
There, Fabin made a maneuver that forced him to hold them 166 pounds of weights – almost three times his own body weight – on his left leg.
But what in any case could cause a serious injury, for the Chinese weightlifter it was a way to control the load he was lifting to start scoring in the competition.
In fact, this was not the first time that you have tried this technique. In the Asian championships of 2017 I had already done it. There he told the media that it was not to “humiliate” his rivals, but the best way to control the weights.
Fabin kept the gold after lifting 313 kilos (the combined score between snatch and clean and jerk, as the results are calculated in this Olympic discipline ).
The silver went to the Indonesian Eko Yuli Irawan and the bronze, to the Kazakh Igor Son.
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