The Influences of IWF New Rules on Rate of Success in Attempts and Competition Tactics

In order to keep the advantageous position of Chinese women athletes in weightlifting, improve Chinese men's weightlifting position and fulfill the dream task for the 2008 Olympic Games, by means of video observation, literature review, interviews with experts and mathematical statistics, the authors of this article have made analysis toward the rate of success on attempts and competition tactics in a few contests before and after the enforcement of '1kg rule'. The findings indicate that the enforcement of '1kg rule' has improved the rate of success on attempts as well as its significance. The tactics under this new rule start to pay more attention to'self-centered tactics', 'pressing tactics' and 'tactics of making false attempts', while'reducing weight tactics'are less used. So the training in athletes'stability of success in trial lifts should be emphasized in the future training and competition. At the same time, as there will be more room for the application of tactics,the meanings of the new rules shoul