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Paris 2024 Olympics: Only 5 Weight Classes per Gender, 120 Athletes Total

December 7, 2020 By Gregor Winter 2 Comments

The IOC just announced the quota changes for weightlifting in the Paris 2024 Olympic games.

IF weightlifting is included—and this is not certain— weightlifting will be reduced to:

New Quota: 120, (was 260 in Rio, will be 196 in Tokyo)

Reduction in weight classes from 7 to 5 per gender.

Kit McConnell, IOC Sports Director:

To be clear, this does not confirm the place of weightlifting in the program in Paris and the IOC executive board continues reserve the right to further review the place of weightlifting in Paris as things move forward.

The weight categories will be finalized themselves by the end of 2021, following the review of Tokyo.

They made clear that this is the biggest reduction in quotas amongst any sport (they reduced quotas for 11 sports), thanks to the mismanagement by IWF.

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Comments

  1. GHM says

    December 8, 2020 at 03:21

    This is it, the Beginning of the End. Vanilla statement from our fearless leaders in IWF site,
    https://www.iwf.net/2020/12/07/iwf-statement-regarding-reduction-weightlifting-quota-places-paris-2024-olympic-games/

    Boxing had the 2nd largest deduction according to IOC but they added more weight divisions to women side, (7 men vs 6 women). https://www.olympic.org/news/gender-equality-and-youth-at-the-heart-of-the-paris-2024-olympic-sports-programme

    Solution: Enjoy it as long as it last. After while just watch old stuff on YouTube.

    TO IWF; Get off your sleep and start making sport more enjoyable to teens so in 20 years (when I am good and dead) you can have a exiting sport again.

    What do you think department: Mix (male & female) division: example 70kg and 100 kg division/s. Each male and female takes two snatch and two jerks. Total of two athletes counts.

    Reply
  2. Peter T Roselli says

    December 9, 2020 at 21:14

    The only hope for any relief is for a mass pressure campaign by the weightlifting community to be brought to bear on IOC President Thomas Bach and the IOC EB to decertify the IWF as the international governing entity for weightlifting immediately, and appoint a conservator to manage the creation of a new constitution then operate an election based on that new constitution, otherwise there exists little or no hope for anything remotely satisfactory outcome as now unfolding, essentially a disaster in the making.

    Weightlifting is almost gone at this point.

    Reply

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