Hopefully he can stay injury free and continue to push the -96kg weight class to new heights. Before jumping up a c lass though, at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games Tao put on an impressive performance as an 85 kg athlete, earning a silver medal with a snatch of 178 kg and a clean & jerk of 217 kg.Īll eyes will be on Tao as he continues through the qualification period for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. I recently moved to Facebook to act as a research scientist in machine learning. Email: XX AT YY dot com, where XXfeitia,and YYfb.

At the 2018 IWF World Championships, Tao took home second place behind Moradi with his previously mentioned 407kg total. Mailing Address: Facebook Headquarters 1 Hacker Way Menlo Park, CA 94025. Since moving up to the -96kg weight class, Tao has slowly been gaining his stride on the platform. By Daniel Etchells at the SAT Indoor Athletics Stadium in Pattaya. I believe he also held the unofficial world record for the clean and jerk at 220kg/485lbs until it was broken by Iranian weightlifter Kianoush Rostami, who won gold over Tian Tao at Rio. Tian Tao is a silver medalist at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Tao’s latest results are an awesome suggestion of what we can hopefully expect from him in the upcoming year. Heres some background for people who dont know him. It ran from July 6th through July 7th in the Tokyo International Forum. A post shared by WE LIFT WEIGHTS STEADY TOKYO served as a a test run for multiple countries and athletes ahead of next year’s Tokyo Olympic Games, and also served as a Silver-level qualifying event. 2016 junior world champ Liu Jiawen was in good shape and easily managed to win three titles with all new national records: 170/210/380.

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