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The women's +87 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place on 2 August 2021 at the Tokyo International Forum. [1] [2] During the competition, Laurel Hubbard made history by becoming the first transgender woman athlete to compete in the Olympics.
The women's 87 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place on 2 August at the Tokyo International Forum. [1] [2] Wang Zhouyu won the gold, with a combined lift of 270 kg.
She won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 European Weightlifting Championships held in Tirana, Albania and retained her title, with a somewhat reduced lift, in 2023 in Yerevan, Armenia. [13] [14] The British Olympic Association chose Campbell as Team GB's only weightlifter at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the +81 kg category. [15]
The last women's American weightlifter to win gold was Tara Nott-Cunningham at the 2000 Sydney Games. That was the first Olympics at which women's weightlifting was in competition.
This is a yearly list of the women's American weightlifting champions. Champions by year. As of 1 ... International Olympic Lifter: 202.5 kg Arlys Kovach: 75 kg: 1992:
Tham "Thammy" Nguyen Gough (née Nguyen; / θj æ m w ɪ n /; Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thẩm, [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥˦ tʰaːm˧˩]; born 15 September 1996) is an Irish retired weightlifter who is known for being the first Irish weightlifter to win a senior medal at the European Weightlifting Championships.
She won the silver medal in the women's 49 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France. In 2023, she won the gold medal in the women's 49 kg event at the European Weightlifting Championships held in Yerevan, Armenia. [2] She also won the gold medal in her event at the 2024 European Weightlifting Championships held in Sofia, Bulgaria.
On 13 July 2016, IOC announced that Yuliya Kalina of Ukraine was disqualified from the 2012 Summer Olympics and ordered to return the bronze medal from this event. Reanalysis of Kalina's samples from London 2012 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone ( turinabol ). [ 3 ]