Elreen Ann Ando of the Philippines competes throughout the girls’s 59kg weightlifting occasion on the Paris Olympics 2024, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photograph/Kin Cheung)
Elreen Ando could not have seized a medal, however she earned the respect of the gang within the girls’s weightlifting 59-kilogram division of the Paris Olympics.
The packed viewers at South Paris Area roared as Ando accomplished her clear and jerk sequence at 130kg in her remaining strive, permitting the Filipino to at the very least take house a brand new private greatest and end in sixth place.
Ando exited the medal hunt with a complete of 230kgs.
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China’s Luo Shifang received the gold with an Olympic document of 241kg, making it three-for-three for the Chinese language within the weightlifting competitions thus far. Canada’s Maude Charron completed with silver at 236 whereas Kuo Hsing Chun of Chinese language Taipei settled for bronze with a 235.
Kuo, the 25-year-old two-time Olympian missed twice in each the snatch and the clear and jerk.
Ando shook off a poor begin within the snatch, failing to elevate 100kgs on her first try.
Philippines’ Elreen Ann Ando competes within the girls’s -59kg weightlifting occasion throughout the Paris Olympics 2024 on the South Paris Area in Paris, on August 8, 2024. (Photograph by Miguel MEDINA / AFP)
The Cebuano lifter, nonetheless, picked it up in her second try, wobbling barely to the aspect earlier than steadying herself for a profitable elevate that assured she would progress to the clear and jerk.
Not like in different worldwide weightlifting competitions that award medals for complete, snatch and clear and jerk, the Olympics offers a medal just for the overall. Thus, three misses within the scratch means a participant can now not progress to the clear and jerk.
Ando went for 102 in her remaining elevate however flubbed that one, too.
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After the break, Ando went with 130 as her preliminary elevate for the clear and jerk, 2kg greater than her private greatest.
She missed the primary and managed to shine off the clear within the second however was pushed to her knee throughout the jerk.
Within the third strive, Ando managed the jerk properly sufficient to achieve the nod of three judges.
Ando and John Ceniza are thus carried out with their stint within the Paris Olympics.
Ceniza went three-and-out throughout the snatch within the males’s 61kg earlier than and didn’t progress to the clear and jerk after competing with a sore shoulder.
The Philippine weightlifting squad is now pinning its hopes on the younger Vanessa Sarno, an Asian senior and junior champion. Sarno will compete at 71kg on Saturday.
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