In the 2025 Asian Weightlifting Championships, the Chinese team ended with 31 golds, 15 silvers and 11 bronzes, and the new Olympic cycle got off to a good start

This Asian Championships is the first continental competition that the Chinese weightlifting team participated in after the official training team formed in the Los Angeles Olympic cycle. As the new cycle and new division will be executed in June this year, this Asian Championship will become the farewell match of the old level of the Paris cycle, which also means that the records set by this competition will be "permanently sealed", which is of great significance.

World champion Li Yan won three gold medals

In this context, the Chinese weightlifting team sent a total of 20 male and female athletes to participate in the competition, achieving full participation. In the Chinese team's roster this time, veterans such as Olympic gold medalist Liu Huanhua and world champion Li Dayin are the core, supplemented by young forces such as Zhao Jinhong and Li Yan, who won good results in the World Youth Championships last year, and a number of potential new stars who have made their debut on the international stage are ready to go. The whole team is united in their efforts to achieve a "good start" in the first international competition of the Olympic cycle in Los Angeles.

On May 15, Beijing time, the 2025 Asian Weightlifting Championships continued to usher in the final day of competition in Jiangshan, Zhejiang. On the same day, the men's 109 kg and women's 87 kg and above competitions were held, and the world champion Li Yan won 3 gold medals. In the women's 87kg above group A final, Li Yan, who represented the Chinese team, is the world champion of the event and the world record holder in the snatch.

In the competition of the day, Li Yan made his finale in the snatch link, and lifted 135 kg smoothly. Since the previous competitor's best score was 125kg, this means that Li Yan locked up the gold medal in the snatch. In the second, she lifted another 140 kilograms, and in the third she failed to challenge 145 kilograms.

The two players of the Korean team, Park Hye-jung and Son Yong-hee, won the silver and bronze medals in the snatch with 125 kg and 121 kg respectively. The process of the clean and jerk competition was the same, Li Yankai secured the gold medal with 162 kg, and then increased his score to 170 kg, steadily taking the two gold medals in the clean and jerk and the total score (310 kg).

South Korea's Park Hye-jeong won the silver medal with 285kg, and Son Yong-hee won the bronze medal with 282kg. Since there are no Chinese players in the men's 109kg and above class, the Chinese team's journey in this Asian Championships is over. In nine days, the Chinese team won 57 medals, including 31 gold, 15 silver and 11 bronze, and won the medal table.