Ramos lifts her way to 4 gold medals in Uzbekistan

ROSE JEAN RAMOS clinched 4 gold medals on the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent on Tuesday to underscore simply how good—and doubtlessly world class— are weightlifters from Zamboanga Metropolis.

Ramos, 17, dominated the ladies’ youth 45 kgs class by successful gold in snatch with 70 kgs, clear and jerk with 83 kgs and whole carry 153 kgs. Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Hoai settled for silver with 66 kgs in snatch, 80 kgs in clear and jerk for bronze and 146 kgs in whole carry.

India’s Dalvi Soumya bagged bronze in snatch with 63 kgs, silver in clear and jerk with 82 kgs and bronze in whole carry with 145 kgs.   

Ramos captured her fourth gold—in juniors 45 kgs class—with 70 kgs in snatch. She settled for bronze in clear and jerk with 83 kg however her whole carry of 153 kgs wasa good for a silver medal. India’s Garud Sharad Harshada topped the class with gold medals in clear and jerk (88 kgs) and whole carry (157 kgs) on prime of her silver in snatch (69 kgs).

“It’s a tricky competitors however my household at all times serves as my principal motivation to carry out at my best,” Ramos informed BusinessMirror through web name from the Uzbekistan Sports activities Complicated.

“I’m additionally very grateful to teach Allen,” added Ramos, who additionally clinched a silver medal

Coach Allen Diaz is not any aside from a cousin of Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz.

Like Hidilyn Diaz, Allen Diaz and Ramos hail from the now producer of Olympic champions, Barangay Mampang in Zamboanga Metropolis.

On Monday, one other rising star from Zamboanga Metropolis, Angeline Colonia, bagged two gold medals and one silver.

The 16-year-old Colonia, who hails from Barangay Pasabolong in the identical metropolis, and a first-timer in abroad competitions, topped the ladies’s 40 kgs class together with her gold medal carry of 62 kgs within the snatch, a silver with 72 kgs in clear and jerk and a gold for her whole carry of 134 kgs.

That 62-kg carry in snatch broke the 2018 world customary document by 1 kg.