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The Olympic medal chances of athletes from around the world have changed dramatically after China decided not to select Rio 2016 gold medallist Deng Wei, its leading female athlete in the Tokyo 2020 rankings.
Lidia Valentin has earned her place at a fourth straight Olympic Games without making a lift in her final qualifying competition, the Open de Colombia in Cali.
Lidia Valentin of Spain, who has won gold, silver and bronze medals at the Olympic Games, is moving up to a new weight in an attempt to qualify for Tokyo 2020.
Thursday, 8 April 2021 Iryna Dekha of Ukraine took advantage of the absence of Lidia Valentin to win gold at the European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow and effectively confirm her place as Europe’s top qualifier in the women’s 76 kilograms for Tokyo 2020. Valentin had a serious bout of gastroenteritis at the weekend and had to go to hospital rather than fly to Moscow. It was a controversial success for Dekha, as the Russian teenager Iana Sotieva thought she had won by making her final clean and jerk of 137kg. Sotieva, 18, the European youth champion, screamed and jumped with deli...
Saturday, 6 March 2021 More than 400 weightlifters have returned to the platform to compete live in Spain and the United States this weekend, raising hopes of a return to some sort of normality after a year lost to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among them was Lidia Valentin, one of the world’s most popular weightlifters, who topped the standings in the Absolute Spanish Cup in Leon today, where the men’s winner was David Sanchez. That event was restricted to the top 30 lifters in Spain, 15 men and 15 women, across all weight categories and was televised live on the La Liga channel. In Salt Lake...