Enny Alvarez came close to winning a medal in the 59kg Persian competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, but in the movement of the push it went blank and lost the option.
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Alvarez She was a lioness on the platform, she transformed herself and showed that these were her Games after two years in which she had trouble getting over the 234 kilos of the World Championships in Bogotá.
Yenny Alvarez
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The start was very close, but the Colombian performed well and finished third with 105 kilos. She was surpassed by the Canadian Maude Charrion, with 106, and the Chinese, Shifang Lou, who lifted the barbell with 107 kilos.
The satisfaction of his first lift was expressed with a strong blow when he lifted the 105 kilos that gave him third place partially.
The Cali-born girl burst with joy, knelt down and grabbed the platform with her fists, a way of expressing that her objective in that first movement had been achieved.
Yenny Alvarez
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Alvarez had just completed the perfect cycle, winning gold medals at the Bolivarian, South American, Central American and Caribbean Games and at the Pan American Gamesbut two years ago he was trying to improve his mark and he hadn’t done it.
What’s more, in none of those events did he lift the 105 kilos in the snatch he did this Thursday in Paris, hence the happiness, the satisfaction, the blows to the wood.
However, in the clean and jerk everything was different. In her first lift she asked for 130 kilos and it was null, she went to 132, forced, because Hshing-Chun Kuo, from Chinese Taipei, with whom he was fighting for bronze, as he also lifted 105 in the snatch, lifted 130 kilos on the first attempt.
Alvarez He couldn’t lift the 132 kilos on both occasions and was left with empty hands.
The Valle del Cauca native had never lifted 132 kilos in the Olympic cycle. At the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games she lifted 131, her maximum weight, but this time she couldn’t.
Her best total was 234 kilos at the 2022 World Championships in Bogotá, but here Luo won gold with 241 kilos, Charrion won silver with 236 and Kuo won bronze with 235.
Lisandro Rengifo
Special correspondent from EL TIEMPO in Paris
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