HANGZHOU, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) — DPR Korean weightlifter Kim Il Gyong gained gold within the girls’s 59kg class of weightlifting competitors at Hangzhou Asiad on Monday, lifted 111kg within the snatch and 135kg within the clear and jerk for a complete of 246kg, and set a world file within the snatch, one kilo higher than the earlier mark, held by Chinese Taipei’s Olympic gold medalist Kuo Hsing-chun.
Rim Un Sim from DPRK, who took gold medal within the girls’s 69kg on the Jakarta Asian Games 5 years in the past, collected gold within the girls’s 64kg, lifted 111kg within the snatch and 140kg within the clear and jerk for a complete of 251kg in a while the day.
In an absorbing contest, Kim set a brand new world file within the snatch, elevating 111kg above her head on her third carry, 4 kilograms greater than her Chinese opponent Luo Shifang. The 20-year-old DPR Korean woman stored her momentum within the clear and jerk to carry 135kg, two kilograms greater than Luo.
Luo gained a silver with a complete of 240kg.
A coach from workforce DPR Korea launched that the nation had missed many competitions throughout final 4 years, together with the delayed Tokyo Olympic Games from which they withdrew forward of the opening.
“All weightlifters of the team train hard for Hangzhou Asiad,” mentioned the coach.
“It is really a challenge that participating the Asiad after world weightlifting championships within a month,” mentioned Luo, including that she would carry on training and deal with the Paris Olympic Games subsequent 12 months.
29-year-old Chinese Taipei’s Kuo Hsing-chun, gold medalist within the girls’s 59kg class on the Tokyo Olympic Games, took the bronze with 227kg within the occasion.
In the ladies’s 64kg, the 18-year-old Pei Xinyi of China clinched silver with a complete of 234kg. Elreen Ann Ando from the Philippines got here third with 222kg.
DPR Korean feminine weightlifters have pocketed 4 golds on the Hangzhou Asiad, belting six world information.