FILE – The Philippines’ Hidilyn Diaz competes within the ladies’s 55kg weightlifting competitors through the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games on the Tokyo Worldwide Discussion board in Tokyo on July 26, 2021. (Photograph by Vincenzo PINTO / AFP)
MANILA, Philippines–Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo has two extra tournaments left in her bid for an unprecedented fifth straight Olympic Video games.
The Tokyo Olympics gold medalist ought to preserve her standing on the Worldwide Weightlifting Federation Grand Prix scheduled to start Monday in Doha, Qatar to remain inside rivalry.
Diaz-Naranjo ranks seventh within the ladies’s 59kg class the place the highest 10 after 5 qualifying meets will progress to the Paris Summer time Video games subsequent yr.
“This will probably be my fourth qualifier, so I really want to focus and take away any distractions,” mentioned Diaz-Naranjo, who educated in Bahrain for 2 weeks with husband-coach Julius Naranjo earlier than coming over to Doha.
The nation’s solely Olympic gold medalist shouldn’t be the one one who’s closing in on an Olympic spot.
Former Asian champion Vanessa Sarno and Rosegie Ramos, Diaz-Naranjo’s protege, are each ranked ninth within the 49kg and 71kg, needing yet another match after the grand prix to make it to the French capital.
Becoming a member of them is Cebuano John Febuar Ceniza, who’s working sixth general within the males’s 61kg class that would presumably give Workforce Philippines 4 Olympic qualifiers in weightlifting.
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“We hope to do properly on this match and I’m assured our lifters can preserve their rankings,” mentioned Samahang Weightlifting ng Pilipinas president Monico Puentevella.
The grand prix in Doha from December 4 to 14 will probably be essential to the Olympic qualifying rankings within the males’s and ladies’s division the place a complete of 382 lifters from no less than 72 nations are vying for a ticket certain for Paris.
Different Filipino lifters taking part within the Doha meet are Southeast Asian Video games silver medalist Pretty Inan (ladies’s 49kg Group B), Rose Jean Ramos, the youthful sister of Rosegie (ladies’s 45kg) and Kristel Macrohon (ladies’s 71kg).
“Now we have a slim likelihood of getting a medal in Group B. They may play first so all of the weightlifters in Group A could have an opportunity to regulate the subsequent day,” mentioned Samahang Weightlifting ng Pilipinas secretary basic Patrick Lee.
Two extra Olympic qualification meets have been scheduled—the Asian championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Feb. 20-26 and the IWF World Cup in Phuket, Thailand from April 2-11—earlier than the window closes.
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Diaz-Naranjo and Ceniza ought to keep inside Olympic vary after these tournaments together with Ramos and Sarno.
