Kristina Şermetowa Explained

Kristina Shermetova
Native Name:	Kristina Şermetowa
Birth Date:	25 May 1993
Birth Place:	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Height:	1.73m (05.68feet)
Weight:	55kg (121lb)
Country:	Turkmenistan
Sport:	Weightlifting
Event:	55 kg
Updated:	11 November 2018

Kristina Shermetova (tk|Kristina Şermetowa; born 25 May 1993 in Ashgabat) is a Turkmen weightlifter.^[1] Her best results was a silver medal at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships in Anaheim.

Biography

She was born on 25 May 1993, in Turkmenistan capital city Ashgabat. Since childhood, she has been engaged in sports and dancing. She started weightlifting in 2007, because of a friend of her father opened a weightlifting school for girls in Ashgabat.

The first coach is Armen Stepanyan.

Career

The first international success in her career was the bronze medal of the 2009 Asian Youth Weightlifting Championship in the category up to 48 kg.

Due to injuries, she missed 2015 and 2016 seasons.

2017 turned out to be successful for Kristina Shermetova. The athlete became the third at the 2017 Asian Weightlifting Championships in the category up to 53 kg, and at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships in Anaheim she won silver.

In July 2021, she represented Turkmenistan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She finished in 6th place in the women's 55 kg event.^{[2] [3]}

Major results

Year	Venue	Weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total	Rank
width=40	1	width=40	2	width=40	3	width=40	Rank	width=40	1	width=40	2	width=40	3	width=40	Rank
Representing
Olympic Games
			90	93	93	5	111	115	117	5	205	6
World Championships
			83	83	86		14	107	110	110	12	196	11
			90	93	95		9	113	117	120	7	210	8
			88	91	91			109	111	113		204
Asian Games
2018			88	91	93	1	110	113	116	3	206
Asian Championships
2022			82	83	83	6	104	105	107	—	—	—
2021			88	90	90	6	110	113	113	7	198	7
2019		55 kg	63	68	72	12	98	104	—	6	172	8
2017		53 kg	78	81	81	5	100	104	106		182
2012		58 kg	77	81	83	8	95	100	100	8	183	8
Islamic Solidarity Games
2022			85	87	89		103	105	111		194

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kristina Şermetowa . IWF.net . https://web.archive.org/web/20180821223157/https://www.iwf.net/results/athletes/?athlete=shermetova-kristina-1993-05-25&id=4361 . dead . 21 August 2018 . 21 August 2018.
2. Web site: Шерметова заняла шестое место на Олимпиаде в соревнованиях по тяжёлой атлетике . 26 July 2021 . 26 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210726163040/https://turkmenportal.com/blog/38444/ . live.
3. Web site: Women's 55 kg Results . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210726145835/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WLF/OG2020-_WLF_C73_WLFW55KG--------------FNL---------.pdf . 26 July 2021 . 31 July 2021 . 2020 Summer Olympics.