Syria’s first medal at the Tokyo Olympics (video)

Syrian weightlifter Maan Asaad won his country’s first medal at the current Summer Olympics in Tokyo, winning bronze in the weightlifting competitions in the 109kg category.

Asaad, 27, lifted 190 kg in the snatch and 234 in the net (424 kg), to finish third behind Georgian Lasha Talakhadze, who broke the world record with 488 kg, and Iranian Ali Daoudi ( 441 kg).

This is Syria’s first medal at the current Olympic Games, knowing that during her previous participation, which started in 1948, she won 3 medals, gold won by Ghada Shuaa in the competition of heptathlon in Atlanta 1996, silver for free wrestler Joseph Attieh in the 100 kg in Los Angeles 1984, and bronze for free wrestler Joseph Attieh in the 100 kg in Los Angeles 1984. For boxer Nasser Al-Shami in the 91 kg in Athens 2004.

Asaad has competed in the current games after getting rid of the shoulder pain that followed his participation in the Asian Championships in Uzbekistan last April, when he won three silver medals with a local record of 433 kg (195 snatched and 238 nets).

He was the happiest solution in fifteenth place at the Rio 2016 Olympics, and competed at the time with a weight of +105 and his group reached 400 kg (180 snatch and 220 nets).

During his career, he won the Syrian championship in various categories, winning his first international championship at the age of 14 at the Asian junior championships in Uzbekistan 2009, and at the Asian championship in Kyrgyzstan first place in 2013 and the Challenge Cup in Switzerland 2019.

In 2019, he finished fifth at the world championships in Thailand and won three silver medals at the 2021 Asian championships in Uzbekistan.

Source: agencies

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