Zhou writes off Games despite gold, new record
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August 7, 2012, Tuesday
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CHINA'S Zhou Lulu won the women's Olympic over-75kg weightlifting gold with a new world record on Sunday, but insisted the Games had not been a success for Chinese lifters.
World champion Zhou set a new record of 333kg, breaking her old mark from last year's world championships of 328kg. She also matched South Korean Jang Mi-ran's world marker of 187kg in the clean and jerk.
But she said she was disappointed at not adding a snatch world record as well. "I am really happy. The gold medal weighs more than the weights," she joked.
"I think I performed OK, not very well. When I didn't manage to get the world record in the snatch, I had to change my strategy and decided I had to get the clean and jerk record.
"My coach told me not to think about what had happened in the snatch. I had good preparation for the clean and jerk and with a weight of 187kg, I am happy.
"There was pressure to get this medal as the Chinese had not achieved well in areas we expected to get medals, and this was good motivation. We feel it is mission unaccomplished because in the men's categories we missed out on two golds."
In a stunning competition, European champion Tatiana Kashirina of Russia set a new snatch world record of 151kg as she missed out on gold by just one kilo.
The competition boiled down to a straight shootout between Zhou and the woman she deposed as world champion last year, Kashirina.
Hripsime Khurshudyan of Armenia claimed bronze with a total lift of 294kg.
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