The 19yr old youngster has great confidence that at the national championships in 2 months time, he can challenge the Olympic champion Lu Yong.Ĭoach Yu Jie: Although he is young, he has enormous potential. In addition to recovering from his injury, he also has Liao Hui and Lu Xiaojun as role models. Coach Yu saw that Tian Tao had great enthusiasm and has decided to move him into the 85kg category. Second reporter: Having recovered from his injury, starting from Winter training, the coach of the Olympic gold medalists Lu Xiaojun and Liao Hui, Yu Jie began taking over Tian Tao’s training. Tian Tao: (Something about trying to jerk too quickly. However, due to his youthful aggression, at last year’s Olympic trials while attempting a 77kg world record of 211kg, he injured his elbow. Second reporter: During training, Tian Tao has power jerked a weight of 220kg, while the world record for the C&J at 85kg is only 218kg. My coach couldn’t figure out why so we just went with the power jerk. Tian Tao: When I was young, I could power jerk 160kg but only split jerk 140kg. Power jerks are used by most lifters for relatively light weights, but Tian Tao uses it all the time for both training and competition. Rather, it is a “half-jerk” (which essentially means power jerk). It is neither the usual split Jerk nor a squat Jerk like Lu Xiaojun’s. Second reporter: Tian Tao’s C&J is a bit odd. Many people believe that in the future, he will be the main competitor for Lu Yong, the 85kg Olympic champion. Though his age is small, his talent and strength are enormous. Reporter at the start: Speaking of youngsters, today we will introduce a young, 19 year old weightlifter from Hubei province. He is being trained by Yu Jie (same coach as Lu Xiaojun and Liao Hui).

Since then he moved up to the 85kg, where in the 2013 Chinese Nationals he got a 165kg Snatch, but failed to register a C&J. You probably remember Tian Tao when from the 2012 Chinese Nationals (he was still 17 back then) when at 77kg he attempted a 211kg Clean & Jerk. He was nevertheless chosen to represent China at the 2013 World Championships, where he was forced to drop out after the snatch part of the competition.This CCTV 5 bit aired after the Human Flag & Weighted Dips bit we saw last week. Later this year in September at the domestically prestigious Chinese National Games he placed third with only two good attempts. In the March National Championships he won the snatch with 165 kg but had to retire early again due to injury after only one successful jerk, not placing on the overall podium. In 2013 he moved up to the 85 kg class and competed in January at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival, winning the bronze medal. During his second attempt in the jerk with 211 kg he also injured his right elbow and had to rehab for the rest of the year. With his total of 365 kg he was however beaten by Lu Haojie and Lu Xiaojun to third place and didn’t make the national team. Tian’s next competition was the April 2012 National Championships where he attempted to qualify for the London Olympic Games. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tian Tao's net worth $5 Million. Tian Tao is one of the richest Weightlifter & listed on most popular Weightlifter.

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