TEHRAN (Iran News) According to IRNA, Reyhaneh Karimi and Hanieh Sharifi both took the podium in the 71 kg category on Sunday evening.

Karimi won all three bronze medals in the 71 kg category of the Asian Junior and Youth Championships by lifting 91 kg in the single jerk and 120 kg in the double jerks, with a total weight limit of 211 kg.

She also tried to win the double snatch gold by lifting 131 kg in the final two lifts, but failed.

In this category, Sharifi, who had won the Asian Junior Championship, came fourth in the youth age group with a total weight limit of 200 kg.

Earlier, Maryam Keshtkar has claimed a bronze medal in the 59 kg weight category by lifting 94 kg in the clean and jerk. She also lifted 67 kg in the snatch category, finishing the tournament in fifth place with a total lift of 161 kg.

The 2024 Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships are taking place in Doha, Qatar, from December 19 to 25.

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He came first in the 96kg weight class after lifting a total of 371kg (166+205) in the tournament.

Turkmenistan’s Shahzadbek Matyakubov seized the silver with 367kg and Masashi Nishikawa of Japan won the bronze with 362kg.

The competition has started in Guadalajara, Mexico on Nov. 15 and will run until Nov. 23.

The 2023 Junior World Weightlifting Championships have brought together 229 athletes from 44 countries.

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It’s Iran’s first silver medal in the women’s weightlifting in history.

She lifted 90kg in snatch and 115kg in clean and jerk.

Jamali won the silver medal with a total of 205kg.

The gold medal went to Georgian Natia Gadelia who lifter 208kg and Russian Daria Meshcherakova won the bronze medal with 201kg.

Jamali had won the country’s first medal in the history in the 2021 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships in May in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

She he took the bronze in the 87kg with 92-116-208.

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Rahman, a two-time Paralympics champion in London 2012 and Rio 2016, passed away at the age of 31 after a heart attack in his hometown Oshnavieh, northwest Iran, on Sunday.

Calling Rahman a “national hero”, the president added in his message that the Iranian sensation “with his victories in multiple sporting events, was a source of joy and pride for the Iranian people time and time again.”

“Siamand Rahman will forever remain in our minds and hearts and his steel resolve will be an inspiration to the future generations of Iranians,” Rouhani added.

In Rio Games, Rahman became the first-ever Paralympian to lift more 300kg and his bench press record of 310kg still stands in the +107kg weight class.

Meanwhile, the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) president Andrew Parsons expressed his shock and deepest condolences on the passing of Iranian powerlifter.

“The whole Paralympic movement is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Siamand Rahman,” said Parsons.

“Siamand was a pioneer for his sport, an inspiration for many in his home country, Iran, and around the world, and a fantastic ambassador for the Paralympic movement.

“He was also a wonderful human being, a gentle giant and one of the friendliest people you could ever meet.”

Considered as the world’s strongest Paralympian, Rahman set new world records nine times between 2014 and 2016, as well as winning the world title in Dubai in 2014.

He won two more world titles in 2017 and 2019, while his performance at the Rio Paralympics, when he lifted 75kg more than his nearest rival, saw him named best male at the Paralympic Sports Awards that year.

Rahman, a triple Asian Games gold medalist, had been targeting a third Paralympic gold in Tokyo and had promised to try to break his current record in the process.

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Sohrab Moradi, who won a gold at 94kg in Rio but has suffered two serious injuries during qualifying, participated in the competition as the only Iranian lifter.

Iran was supposed to participate in the competition in Dubai with seven weightlifters but their flight was canceled due to coronavirus outbreak threat in the region and country.

He took a gold medal with a total of 370kg (163kg in snatch and 207kg in clean & jerk).

A weightlifter from Saudi Arabia won the silver medal with 302kg and Uzbekistan’s weightlifter claimed the bronze with 290kg.

Moradi badly injured his spine a year ago then dislocated a shoulder last July.

He also is hopeful of a good performance at the Asian Championships in Kazakhstan that is going to be held in April.

Moradi is way down in 78th place in the current rankings and would probably need to lift close to world-record levels in both those competitions to make it – but he is the world record holder in snatch and total at 96kg, both set when he won the 2018 world title.

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According To Iran News, Iran finished in second place at the 2020 Asian Junior Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

The Iranian weightlifters finished in second place with 641 points after winning four gold, 10 silver and five bronze medals.

Uzbekistan came first with 694 points and Saudi Arabi finished third with 615 points.

Iran also came fourth at the Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships with 305 points, winning three gold, seven silver and two bronze medals.

Uzbekistan won the title with 738 points, followed by Chinese Taipei (689 points) and India (321 points).

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The Iranian team gained a total of 622 points in the men’s category and achieved the event’s title. US finished runner up with 553 points and Japan stood third with 522.

This was the fourth consecutive title of Iran in the world event.

The 2019 edition of IWF Junior World Championships was held on June 1 to 8 in the Fijian capital of Suva with the participation of 248 athletes from 47 countries in men’s and women’s categories.

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Chen Shih-chieh of Chinese Taipei and Turkmenistan’s Hojamuhammet Toýçyýew bagged silver and bronze medals of total with 422kg and 421kg.

The 2019 edition of Asian Weightlifting Championships kicked off in Ningbo, China, on April 20 and it wraps up today.

Iran ranks third in the medals table with two gold, three silver and one bronze medal behind China (10 gold, 5 silver, 2 bronze) and North Korea (2 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze).

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Iranian weightlifting team was crowned with 461/7 points, followed by Germany and Iraq 362.5 and 283.5 points, respectively.

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An Iranian weightlifter at 55 kg division has grabbed 3 gold medals at an international weightlifting championships underway in Bahrain.

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