Asian Weightlifting Championship 2024: Rira Suzuki won the Silver Medal in the Women’s 49 kg Division

On this fine Sunday, the 2024 Asian Championship finally kicked off in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and the interesting results started flooding the internet immediately.

One of the most exciting competitions today was the women’s 49 kg division, which gave us quite a few outstanding performances. 

Rira Suzuki was responsible for one of them. The Japanese weightlifter became one of the surprises of the tournament by not only winning a silver medal in the Clean & Jerk event but also second place overall.

Suzuki started off shakily during the snatch competition, managing to lift only 82 kg on her final attempt, which left her in 5th place overall behind all the other athletes fighting for a spot on the podium.

However, the Japanese got her revenge during the C&J event, where she managed to lift 109 kg on her second attempt, which proved to be enough to give her second place overall. With a total of 191 kg, just one kilogram more than the third and fourth-placed women, Suzuki became this year’s Asian Championship silver medalist, a huge improvement from her results last year.

Just a reminder, in 2023, she finished in eighth place during the World Championship in Riyadh with a total of 187, so this is a huge improvement in her results. Her last podium finish before this one was during the 2021 World Championship in Tashkent, where she also managed to win a silver medal – so maybe Uzbekistan is her lucky country. 

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