Vanessa Sarno within the 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships.
MANILA, Philippines–Vanessa Sarno took a serious step towards qualifying for the Paris Olympics subsequent yr after she collected three silver medals within the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Jinju, South Korea, on Tuesday.
The previous Asian junior and senior champion completed second behind China’s Liao Guifang within the snatch, clear and jerk and whole classes of the ladies’s 71-kilogram division.
Sarno lifted 107kg in snatch and 132kg in clear and jerk for a complete raise of 239kg.
It was a far cry from the 268kg of Liao, who constructed her whole on a 120kg raise in snatch and 148kg in clear and jerk.
However with a yr to go to the Olympics, Sarno is aware of precisely how a lot floor she must cowl to be aggressive in Paris. Extra importantly, her end places her inside the highest eight with a number of extra qualifying legs scheduled this yr.
Sarno’s silver shall be an enormous increase for her as she prepares to fly to Cambodia to defend her Southeast Asian Video games title.
Vanessa Sarno within the 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships.
Sarno owns the meet document in clear and jerk (135kg) and whole (227kg) however stays unsure if she’ll chase down these marks in Cambodia.
“I can’t actually say if I can break the SEA Video games document as a result of I’ll be coming from the Asian [championships],” Sarno advised the Inquirer earlier than leaving for Korea. “However I’ll nonetheless do my greatest to be higher within the SEA Video games.”
“I wish to win the gold. I simply can’t say if I can higher my document. We’re going to do heavy [load] within the Asian [championships] after which it’s going to be troublesome to go heavy once more within the SEA Video games with only one week [to recuperate].”
The weightlifting delegation that went to Korea is about to reach again within the nation on Wednesday earlier than flying to Cambodia the next day.
Chinese language Taipei’s Chen Wen-Huei completed with the bronze in Korea, with a complete raise of 232kg.
Sarno beforehand advised the Inquirer that reserving an outright spot for the Paris Olympics was her prime precedence this yr, particularly for the reason that sport has been scrubbed off the 2028 Los Angeles Video games calendar because of the failure of its worldwide federation (IWF) to implement wanted modifications as mandated by the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC).
And with the likelihood that it might take greater than only one Olympic cycle for the IWF to scrub and rinse itself of its alleged sins, Sarno says the urgency has been heightened for her to qualify for Paris.
“I all the time assume, ‘What if that is my final likelihood?’ I’m pressured and motivated on the identical time to provide my all simply to get that ticket to Paris,” she advised the Inquirer.
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