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Agata Ewa Wróbel (born August 28, 1981, in Żywiec) is a Polish weightlifter, and is a world record-breaker in the +75 kg category.. She took up weightlifting after watching the men compete in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and after learning that women's weightlifting would be an event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
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.
2.2 Women. 2.2.1 Featherweight. 2.2.2 Middleweight. ... This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in weightlifting. Current program. Men. Featherweight
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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.
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 ...
In 2021, competing in the +87 kg category, Campbell became both European champion, and the first British woman to win an Olympic medal in the sport, with silver at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In 2022 she retained her European title, won the Gold medal at her home Commonwealth Games in a new Commonwealth Games record, and upgraded her ...
She holds two Olympic records in weightlifting for her performance at the women's 55 kg category for weightlifting at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In her early weightlifting years, she was a bronze medalist in the 2007 SEA Games in Thailand and achieved 10th place at the 2006 Asian Games in the 53-kilogram class.