Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo arrives in Colombia ahead of world title bid
Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo remains in Colombia in front of weightlifting's 2022 IWF Globe Champions in Bogota which begins on Monday (5 December).
The Philippines' just Olympic champ to this day will certainly quote for her very initial globe headline in the Colombian funding along with her 55kg competitors occurring on Wednesday.
Diaz-Naranjo won 55kg gold at Tokyo 2020 in 2015, however that value course has actually been actually went down for Paris 2024 where she strategies towards relocate as much as 59kg in exactly just what will be actually her 5th as well as last Olympic Video games.
In the meantime, she is actually staying in her typical course as well as wishing to include much a lot extra equipment towards her compilation at the very initial Globe Champions to become organized in Southern The united states.
The IWF Globe Champions is actually likewise the very initial certification occasion for the Paris Video games along with important position factors for gets.
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Diaz-Naranjo leads a 10-strong Filipino group in Bogota.
Possessing wed her stamina as well as conditioning trainer, Julius Naranjo, in July, the celebrity lifter needed to return to research researches.
Final month, she effectively protected her thesis which will certainly allow her towards finish her level in company administration coming from Manila's De La Salle University of Saint Benilde.
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Keeping that scholastic turning point checked off, Diaz-Naranjo has actually had the ability to emphasis completely once once more on her showing off profession.
Prior to taking flight towards Colombia, she remained in the Unified Conditions at a star-studded educating camp in Suwanee, Georgia.
Signing up with her were actually Canada's Olympic 64kg champ Maude Charron, 76kg Tokyo silver medallist Katherine Vibert (previously Nye), as well as two-time Frying pan United states champ Jourdan Delacruz.
Diaz-Naranjo just lately exposed that, in spite of being actually an Olympic champ, she still discovers it challenging towards money her educating, taking a trip as well as competitors costs.
However she significantly delighted in this expertise in front of her very initial significant competiton because keeping her Southern Eastern Oriental Video games headline in Might.
Talking afterwards victory in Vietnam, she informed Olympics.com "This is actually the start of my trip in the direction of Paris 2024. I'm thrilled. [It will certainly be actually a] bit difficult towards certify once once more in Paris. However once once more, I will certainly perform my finest along with Group HD.
"For our team towards certify as well as gain once once more the gold medal in Olympics - we'll perform our finest." - Hidilyn Diaz in Might 2022
That will certainly Hidilyn Diaz contend versus at Bogota IWF Globe Champions?
Along with her entrance overall value of 210.0kg, Diaz has actually been actually seeded second responsible for Colombia's Rosalba Morales that definitely will certainly certainly not absence for house sustain.
Morales won Southern United states Video games gold in Asuncion, Paraguay in Oct along with an overall of 201.0kg which notes her out as an authentic medal competitor.
The cleanse as well as jerk silver medallist at the 2018 Junior Globe Champions is actually some method responsible for Diaz-Naranjo's Olympic document of 224.0kg, however the group might quickly influence her towards a brand-new individual finest.
Morales is actually more powerful in the snatch after that the cleanse as well as jerk, as well as will certainly have to develop a very early top if she is actually towards difficulty for gold.
Kazakhstan's Olympic bronze medallist as well as ruling Oriental champ Zulfiya Chinshanlo possessed been actually readied to difficulty Diaz-Naranjo, however her label is actually missing out on coming from the authorities entrance listing.
The 3rd seed in Bogota is actually USA's fast-rising Shayla Moore Hutchins that is actually located at the Energy as well as Elegance Efficiency Fitness center where the Filipino celebrity possessed her current camp of Olympians.
Moore Hutchins just began raising 4 years back after contending in acrobatics as well as tumbling while at Baylor College, however she's creating for wasted time as well as won her very initial worldwide competitors - the Frying pan United states Champions in Bogota - in July.
Such as Diaz-Naranjo, the 27-year-old is actually more powerful in the cleanse as well as jerk although she will certainly most likely need to enhance considerably on her 193.0kg overall coming from July to earn the medals.
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Young people might create a significant perception in the competitors along with 18-year-old Uzbek lifter Nigora Abdullaeva contending at her very initial elderly Globe Champions possessing won young people globe gold in 2019.
Abdullaeva took snatch as well as integrated bronze at October's Oriental Champions in Bahrain responsible for Chinshanlo along with an overall of 193.0kg.
Romania's Andreea Cotruta, 19, leads the International difficulty along with 22-year-old Mongolian Enkhtamir Enkhbaatar as well as Mexican duo Irene Borrago, 21, as well as Tokyo Olympic finallist Ana Gabriela Lopez, a family member professional at 28, likewise amongst the leading seeds.
Peru's Shoely Mego, 23, is actually the final of the seeds along with a stated entrance value over of 200.0kg.
