Kuo Hsing-chun grabs 2 gold, 1 silver at world weightlifting championships

2018/11/06

Taiwan’s Kuo Hsing-chun claimed two gold medals and one silver, setting two world standards in the women’s 59-kilogram weight class Nov. 4 at the 2018 International Weightlifting Federation World Championships in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
 
 Kuo set a world standard by completing a gold-winning snatch of 105 kg and secured silver by lifting 132 kg in the clean and jerk, giving her another gold medal and world standard with 237 kg in the overall category. This year’s event is the first IWF contest to use new weight classes introduced in July that include replacing the women’s 58-kg game—Kuo’s original weight class—with a 59-kg competition.
 
 China’s Chen Guiming claimed overall silver with a total of 231 kg while Rebeka Koha from Latvia bagged bronze with a combined 227 kg in that weight category.
 
 Taiwan’s star athlete won two gold medals at the IWF World Championships in 2013 and again in 2017. She holds the world record for clean and jerk in the women’s 58-kg class when she lifted 142 kg at the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade, the largest sporting event ever staged in Taiwan.
 
 Born in southeastern Taiwan’s Taitung County, Kuo emerged in 2010 when she claimed silver at the Youth Olympics Games at the age of 17. She brought home a bronze at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and won her first gold at the Asian Games in August.

Source: Taiwan Today (https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=10&post=144772)