The Weightlifting Competitions in women's 63kg. category were held in the certain venue of BUAA Gymnasium in Beijing today that within it Pak Hyon Suk from North Korea achieved the first stand by haltering the 106 weights in Snatch ,135 kg. in Clean & Jerk and 241 in total . Pak was the bronze medal winner at the 2007 World Championships. She finished sixth in Athens when she was just 16 years old. Her gold medal is also the DPRK's first ever Weightlifting Olympic gold medal. Whilst the north Korean lifter had lifted 4 kilos less than Irina NEKRASSOVA from Kazakhstan in snatch but she remedied it in Clean & Jerk and at last gained the gold medal . The second stand of women's 63kg. category was awarded to the Kazakhstan who could lift 240kg. in total . The bronze medal was awarded to Lu Ying-chi from Chinese Taipei that haltered 231kg. in total . In fact the three medals of this weight came to the Asians. The biggest shock was competition favorite Svetlana Tsarukaeva of Russia who wasted all her chances at 107kg and got knocked out from the final. But in the men's 69kg. category held after the women's 63kg. SHI Zhiyong from China that was considered as one of the hopes of being medalist and could lift 152kg. in snatch , couldn't continue the competition because of hurting and let the other competitors follow it up . The other point that LEE Baeyoung from South Korea who could halter 155kg. in snatch , made mistakes in the three movements of Clean & Jerk and was omitted from the table. Finally , by being omitted two titled Asian lifters , it was LIAO Hui from China who became champion by haltering 158kg. in Snatch , and 190 kg. in Clean and Jerk and 348 in total. The French representative stood on the second stand with 338kg. in total and having less weight than his Armenian rival , and the Armenian athletes achieved the bronze medal.
12/08/2008
