Senior Asian Weightlifting Championships in Ashgabat Enters Second Day

AKIPRESS.COM - Senior Asian Weightlifting Championships in Ashgabat entered second day on Monday with Kristina Shermetova grabbing two bronze medals in the women's 53kg, Laurel international management said.

China's Wei Chengji confidently won the women's 53kg. The 23-year-old Chinese swept all three events and lifted 200kg in total to take home three gold medals.

Turkmen Kristina Shermetova took advantage, when Vietnam's Thi My Dung Tran was not able to lift 102kg in three Clean and Jerk attempts and did not manage to reach the podium. Tran's miss handed Shermetova both the Clean and Jerk and the Combined bronze with a total of 182kg.

Thailand's Supattra Kaewkhong confidently took silver with a total of 190kg.Turkmen's Shermetova set a personal record with 104kg in the Clean and Jerk, and said she did not pay attention to her rivals during the competition: "I did not know she [Tran] missed.

I was concentrating on my own performance and did not look at the others.SnatchGold Chengji Wei (China) 88Silver Thi My Dung Tran (Vietnam) 87Bronze Supattra Kaewkhong (Thailand) 82Clean and JerkGold Chengji Wei (China) 112Silver Supattra Kaewkhong (Thailand) 108Bronze Kristina Shermetova (Turkmenistan) 104CombinedGold Chengji Wei (China) 200Silver Supattra Kaewkhong (Thailand) 190Bronze Kristina Shermetova (Turkmenistan) 182Women's 58kgHsing-Chun Kuo (TPE) defended her 2016 Combined Asian title in the women's 58kg successfully.

The 23-year-old bronze medallist from the 2016 Rio Olympic Games totalled 241kg, an amount which would have won her the Olympic Gold...