Kim Il-gyong lifted 111kg for the snatch in the women’s 59kg category today.
Kim Il-gyong is the third North Korean weightlifter to set a women’s world record at the Games.
Kim’s lift, achieved with the 20-year-old’s third snatch of the women’s final, thus eclipsed the previous record of 110kg set in 2021 by Taiwan’s star weightlifter, Kuo Hsing Chun, who was also competing today.In the other half, the clean and jerk, athletes first lift the bar up to sit on their shoulders and then attempt to hoist the bar up above their heads as they jump and land with one foot in front of the other.
Kim, who like several of her rivals sported knee supports in the Xiaoshan sports centre venue, had suggested she was serious about winning early on by opting to make her first lift on 103kg, at a weight so high only one of her rivals, China’s Luo Sifang, was still lifting. Earlier this week, Kim’s teammates and fellow weightlifters Ri Song-gum and Kang Hyong-yong, also set women’s world records.
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