Eko Yuli Irawan

Eko Yuli Irawan ( born July 24, 1989 in Lampung, East Kalimantan, Indonesia) is an Indonesian weightlifter. He won the bronze medal in the bantamweight at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Career

Eko Yuli Irawan began in 2001 in his hometown with the weight lifting. He belongs to the club Metro Lampung. His first coach was Lukman. Since 2008, he is trained by the Australian Rob Ballard.

Since 2006, he participated with great success both at junior level as well as at senior level in international championships. Immediately on his first start at such a Championship, the Junior World Cup in 2006 in Hangzhou, China, he finished in the bantamweight title with a duel performance of 269 kg ( 120-149 ) behind the Chinese Li Zhen, the 286 kg ( 131-155 ) came, the 2nd place. In the same year he started at age 17 already in the Senior World Championships in Santo Domingo and came bantamweight at 266 kg ( 116-150 ) to 2nd place.

2007 Junior World Champion Eko Yuli Irawan bantamweight in Prague. His duel power was there 273 kg ( 120-153 ), with whom he won because of the lighter body weight before the Chinese Wu Jingbao who also scored 273 kg ( 128-145 ). In the Senior World Championships 2007 in Chiangmai / Thailand, he improved bantamweight to 278 kg ( 124-154 ), with whom he, behind the surprise winner Cha Kum Chol, North Korea, 283 kg ( 128-155 ) and the Chinese Li Zhen 283 kg ( 130-153 ) finished 3rd. At the end of 2007, he still won in the Southeast Asia Games in Nakhon Ratchasima / Thailand bantamweight 284 kg ( 126-154 ) and achieved a performance with which he would even become world champion in Chiangmai.

In the Olympic Eko Yuli Irawan of 2008 started at the Asian Championship in Kanazawa featherweight and finished there with very good 305 kg ( 135-170 ) 2nd place behind Zhang Jie from China, with 326 kg ( 147-179 ) a class was for himself. At the Olympics in Beijing sluices he trained again in the bantamweight. A measure that was worth it, because he scored there with 288 kg a new personal best as Bantamgewichtler and won the bronze medal with this. Before him lay only Long Qingquan of China, 292 kg ( 132-160 ) and Hoang Anh Tuan from Vietnam who scored 290 kg ( 130-160).

2009 he moved permanently into the featherweight and won in this weight class in Bucharest for the second time the title of Junior World Champion. With a capacity of 297 kg ( 136-161 ), he drew attention to the Chinese Qiao Ningbo, which came to 292 kg ( 137-155 ), on the 2nd place. When the Senior World Championships in November 2009 in Goyang / South Korea, he delivered the two favorite Chinese Yang Fan and Ding Jianjun a rousing fight. After he was behind in the snatch with 140 kg against these two athletes, he improved in pushing on excellent 175 kg and was thus in a duel with 315 kg second best behind Ding Jianjun, who scored 316 kg and above Yang Fan, who came to 314 kg. With his performance, he won in pushing this single discipline.

In the 2010 World Cup in Antalya Eko Yuli Irawan achieved in a duel 312 kg ( 140-172 ). He came so behind Kim Un - guk, North Korea, Zhang Jie, China, and Erol Bilgin, Turkey on the 4th Place. One consolation for him was winning a bronze medal in the thrusting. At the World Championships of 2011 in Paris, he reached in a duel 310 kg ( 139-171 ) and thus came behind Zhang Jie and Kim Un - gok to 3rd place. In thrusting, he secured with 171 kg a World Championship silver medal.

At the 2012 Olympics in London, Eko Yuli Irawan increased in a duel to 317 kg ( 145-172 ). He finished in behind the phenomenal Kim Un - guk, the 327 kg ( 153-174 ) set a new world record duel and Oscar Figueroa, Colombia, of how he came to 317 kg ( 140-177 ), but some gram was easier when he, the 3rd place and thus won an Olympic bronze medal.

International success

World Cup individual medals

  • World Championship gold medals: 2009/Stoßen
  • World Championship silver medals: 2011/Stoßen
  • World Cup bronze medals: 2007/Stoßen - 2009/Reißen - 2010/Stoßen
  • All competitions in a duel, consisting of tearing and piercing,
  • OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship,
  • Bantam weight until 56 kg, Featherweight, to 62 kg body weight,
  • The competitions at the Olympic Games since 1988 are no longer as World Championships
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