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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
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.
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 ...
Mary Anne Theisen-Lappen (born November 3, 1990) is an American weightlifter.. She won the silver medal in the women's +87 kg event at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, [1] [2] and the gold medal in the women's +81 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile.
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 ...
Windy City Weightlifters: 187.5 kg Jackie Berube: 58 kg: 2005: Windy City Weightlifters: 192.5 kg Jackie Berube: 58 kg: 2006: Windy City Weightlifters: 197 kg Jackie Berube: 58 kg: 2008: Windy City Weightlifters: 194 kg Jackie Berube: 63 kg: 2009: Windy City Weightlifters: 194 kg Pamela Bickler: 44 kg: 1982: 85 kg Stacie Blaskowski: 69 kg: 2000 ...
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Soraya Jiménez Mendivil (a twin sister born 5 August 1977 [2] – 28 March 2013) was a Mexican weightlifter and Olympic champion. She participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where she won a gold medal. [3] Jiménez became the first ever female athlete from Mexico to win an Olympic gold medal. [4]