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Li Wenwen. Li Wenwen (Chinese: 李雯雯; pinyin: Lǐ Wénwén; born 5 March 2000) is a Chinese weightlifter competing in the women's +87 kg division. [5] She is a double Olympic champion, the current world champion, as well as the incumbent Asian champion. In 2021, she set the current world records for both clean & jerk and snatch.
Emily Campbell (born 6 May 1994) is a British weightlifter, the most successful British weightlifter of modern times. [2] She is a Commonwealth and four-time European champion, and a double World and Olympic medalist. In 2021, competing in the +87 kg category, Campbell became both European champion, and the first British woman to win an Olympic ...
World Games. Women: 1997. Weightlifting (often known as Olympic weightlifting) is a competitive strength sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with the aim of successfully lifting the heaviest weights. Athletes compete in two specific ways of lifting the barbell overhead.
Sarah Elizabeth Robles (born August 1, 1988) is an American weightlifter.She qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and earned a bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, becoming the first US athlete to medal in Olympic weightlifting in 16 years.
Hidilyn Diaz. Hidilyn Francisco Diaz-Naranjo[2][3] OLY [4] (Tagalog: [haɪdiˈlin ˈdias naˈɾanho]; [5] born February 20, 1991) [6] is a Filipino weightlifter and airwoman. She holds two Olympic records in weightlifting for her performance at the women's 55 kg category for weightlifting at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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.
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Karyn Marshall (born April 2, 1956, in Miami, Florida) is an American Olympic weightlifter who won the first women's world championship in weightlifting, held in 1987. [1][2][5][6] She also set 60 American and world records in women's weightlifting and in 1985 became the first woman in history to clean and jerk over 300 lb (136 kg), which she ...