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[erpel]

We have new categories since June but no Standards/Records.

[Hawkpeter]

https://fijisun.com.fj/2025/06/11/elder ... 9ukQge83Qw

Not sure how true this story is but someone could write a book just on weightlifting nationality switches and it would be pretty interesting.

[Guima73]

We have new categories since June but no Standards/Records.

https://iwf.sport/2025/06/26/world-stan ... ategories/

[strapping]

https://iwf.sport/2025/06/26/world-stan ... ategories/

I pity and envy the author formulating this as the author is evidently unburdened by reality.

[erpel]

They're too low, but that was expected.

[Guima73]

https://ewf.sport/2025/06/26/european-s ... ategories/

[Hawkpeter]

Some insight here comparing domestic standards to the international ones.

[strapping]

They're too low, but that was expected.

I don't agree.

They're not uniformly low or high, they're just all over the place. Some of them will probably remain unbroken, like they did last time.
Others will be probably broken with in the first few weeks of their existence at Pan Ams.

[Hawkpeter]

He weighed 68.70kg for this, very impressive.

[strapping]

He weighed 68.70kg for this, very impressive.

Probably a medal contender come LA. Seems to me that the North Koreans will be too far ahead as it stands currently but the Chinese, Turkish and Thai lifters will all be solid contenders for those 2 medal slots.