PH weighlifter Elreen Ando secures return to Olympics

FILE–Philippines’ Elreen Ando is returning to the Olympics after securing her ticket to the Paris Video games.

Elreen Ando stunned everyone with a efficiency to recollect on the Worldwide Weightlifting Federation World Cup in Phuket, Thailand on Wednesday evening to nearly clinch a return journey to the Olympics.

The Asian Video games bronze medalist within the ladies’s 59kg class secured the ticket to the Paris Olympics after ending forward of Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo of their last Olympic qualification face-off.

Ando registered a private excessive of 228 kilograms within the complete, following a 100 within the snatch and 128 within the clear and jerk, sufficient to land at seventh general properly contained in the qualifying commonplace of their weight class.

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The 25-year-old Cebuana overshadowed Diaz-Naranjo, the nation’s first and solely Olympic gold medalist who completed eleventh general with a complete carry of 222 following a 99 within the snatch and 123 within the clear and jerk.

The highest 10 lifters in every class will progress to the quadrennial Summer season Video games the place just one consultant from a rustic secures a spot.

Looking for a fifth straight Olympic look after her golden stint in Tokyo 2020, Diaz-Naranjo was forward by one kilogram from Ando after the snatch solely to fail in two successive makes an attempt at 127 within the clear and jerk.

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China’s Luo Shifang struck the gold medal with a 248 output whereas North Korea’s Kim Il Gyong settled for the silver with a 240. Canada’s Maude Charron positioned third (236) adopted by China’s Pei Xinji (233) and Hsing-Chun Kuo of Chinese language Taipei (230).

The IWF will formally announce the ultimate listing of athletes who certified to Paris by the top of the month.