Minor competition thread

[brian.degennaro]

Liu Huanhua surprised me, I expected 190 to be an absolute limit on the snatch but it appears like it can be a consistent 3rd attempt or somewhat reasonable second attempt. Catching the bounce on the 230 was beautiful and I hope to see him make that an opening attempt in the future. I do not think he can keep pace with Akbar on the snatch (whom I suspect will raise the record to 200+ soon), but I think we may see some solid attempts with 240+ from him and Akbar in the future, possibly this fall.

[erpel]

Li Yan 145+178



Ouisal Ikhlef 130+169

[Hawkpeter]

If anyone was interested in footage of African Championships, there were live streams now saved on the Egyptian WL Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id ... ive_videos

[erpel]

There's an Asian Games/WWC prep comp in China were:

Zhang Haiqin did 101WR/126/227WR @W53
Pei Xinyi did 111/140/251 @W61 (W63 WR was 254)

https://tv.cctv.com/2026/08/05/VIDESmkv ... 0805.shtml
https://tv.cctv.com/2026/08/06/VIDEgWuv ... 0806.shtml

[strapping]

Finally the breakout performance from Pei?

[erpel]

Liao Guifang did 127+161 @86
Li Yan snatched 150!

https://tv.cctv.com/2026/08/07/VIDEnJpI ... 0807.shtml

[strapping]

150 snatch makes her the 2nd to ever do it as far as I know? The other closest would be Zhou Lulu 148.

[erpel]

ATM, I think Pei and Yang Liuyue are equal for the total with Pei better in the c&j and Yang in the snatch. I can see the latter progressing to 115+140 at 61 while Pei seems maxed out at 250.

Both Li WW and Zhou LL snatched 148. I think Li Yan is the only one to do (exactly) 150.

I'd like to know Liao's bw, seems like they just put her in 86 full time since it's an easier class? Dunno...

BTW, men were also competing in this but no "Chinese results". Liu did 175+210.