Record-setting Li clinches China's 2nd lifting gold
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July 31, 2012, Tuesday
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CHINA'S Li Xueying won her country's second weightlifting gold yesterday, blowing away the rest of the field and breaking two Olympic records to take the women's 58 kilogram weight division.
Asian Games champion Li, also the current world silver medallist, lifted an Olympic record total of 246 kg, comprising an Olympic record 108kg in the snatch lift and a 138 kg clean and jerk.
Thailand's Pimsiri Sirikaew took the silver with a total of 236kg and the bronze medal went to Ukrainian Yuliya Kalina.
World champion Nastassia Novikava of Belarus finished in seventh place.
Eighteen-year-old Briton Zoe Smith came 12th, having lifted a total of 211kg in the earlier B group session, setting a new British record of 121 kg in the clean and jerk to the delight of a raucous crowd in the 6,000 seat ExCel arena.
Late on Sunday, two-time world champion Wu Jingbiao of China claimed silver in the men's -56kg class with a lift of 289kg (133, 156) after North Korea's Om Yun-chol produced a stunning upset and Kazakh teenager Zulfiya Chinshanlo turned on the style in front of Sebastian Coe.
Om was left thanking his country's late "Great Leader" Kim Jong-Il and "Great Comrade" Kim Jong-Un after claiming gold with a world record-equalling clean and jerk, although the competition went down to the wire. Om recorded a combined total of 293kg thanks to 125kg in the snatch and an Olympic record of 168kg in the clean and jerk.
Chinshanlo powered to gold in the women's -53kg category after setting a new world record of 131kg in the clean and jerk.
Asian Games champion Li, also the current world silver medallist, lifted an Olympic record total of 246 kg, comprising an Olympic record 108kg in the snatch lift and a 138 kg clean and jerk.
Thailand's Pimsiri Sirikaew took the silver with a total of 236kg and the bronze medal went to Ukrainian Yuliya Kalina.
World champion Nastassia Novikava of Belarus finished in seventh place.
Eighteen-year-old Briton Zoe Smith came 12th, having lifted a total of 211kg in the earlier B group session, setting a new British record of 121 kg in the clean and jerk to the delight of a raucous crowd in the 6,000 seat ExCel arena.
Late on Sunday, two-time world champion Wu Jingbiao of China claimed silver in the men's -56kg class with a lift of 289kg (133, 156) after North Korea's Om Yun-chol produced a stunning upset and Kazakh teenager Zulfiya Chinshanlo turned on the style in front of Sebastian Coe.
Om was left thanking his country's late "Great Leader" Kim Jong-Il and "Great Comrade" Kim Jong-Un after claiming gold with a world record-equalling clean and jerk, although the competition went down to the wire. Om recorded a combined total of 293kg thanks to 125kg in the snatch and an Olympic record of 168kg in the clean and jerk.
Chinshanlo powered to gold in the women's -53kg category after setting a new world record of 131kg in the clean and jerk.
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