- Liao Qiuyun is a massive favorite (-800 odds) to win the gold medal in the Women’s 55kg weightlifting category.
- Hidilyn Diaz, an Olympic veteran, is next on the odds boards. with Zulifiya Chinshanlo a potential underdog.
TOKYO - The weightlifting section is jam-packed full of top competitors, and in the Women’s 55kg division, there is no exception. China has dominated lower weight classes in terms of weightlifting, and the 55kg Women’s division also features a dominant Chinese athlete.
While there are other competitors, the majority of the story in the 55kg division is focused on Liao Qiuyun, who is a heavy favorite to win the gold medal at online sportsbooks.
Tokyo 2021 - Women's 55kg Odds
- Liao Qiuyun (CHN) -800
- Hidilyn Diaz (PHI) +1400
- Zulifiya Chinshanlo (KAZ) +1400
- Kamila Konotop (UKR) +1600
- Muattar Nabieva (UZB) +2500
- Chiang Nien-Hsin (TPE) +3300
- Nouha Landoulsi (TUN) +3300
- Ham Eun-Ji (KOR) +5000
- Kristina Shermetova (TKM) +8000
- Ana Gabriela Lopez Ferrer (MEX) +10000
- Rachel Leblanc-Bazinet (CAN) +15000
- Joanna Lochowska (POL) +25000
- Kanae Yagi (JPN) +25000
- Mary Kini Lifu (SOL) +75000
Liao has been a dominant competitor in the division for the last few years, winning the gold medal at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships in Pattaya.
She also collected gold medals at the Asian Championships in 2019, as well as a gold medal at the 2020 Asian Championships, which were held in 2021 due to COVID-19.
Her closest competition in the weight class comes from Hidilyn Diaz, the first Filipino woman to win a medal at the Olympic games. Diaz is a veteran, and was the youngest competitor in the 58kg category all the way back in Beijing, during the 2008 Olympics.
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She is the reigning silver medalist in the 53kg category, which she achieved in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Diaz has competed at 58kg and 53kg, which means that the 55kg category she is in now could be a happy medium for her as an athlete and potentially hurt less than other competitors by the reworking of the weight classes for this Olympics.
However, Liao is a massive favorite still, with -800 odds, and Diaz, along with Zulifiya Chinshanlo of Kazakhstan, are significant underdogs despite being her closest competition.
It seems as though Liao is something of a sure thing in this category, and Olympic betting players should adjust expectations accordingly.
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