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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.
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 competed in the women's 69 kg event where she finished in 5th place in both the Snatch and the Clean & Jerk events. She also represented Italy at the 2018 Mediterranean Games held in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. [4] [5] In 2020, she won the silver medal in the women's 59 kg Snatch event at the Roma 2020 World Cup in Rome, Italy. [1]
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 weightlifting, Wei-Ling competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 48kg class. She snatched 75kg and clean and jerked 95kg for a total of 170kg, ranking 11th. [8] At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Wei-Ling originally won the bronze medal in the 48kg category. She snatched 84kg and clean and jerked 112kg for a total of 196kg. [9]
This result was an Olympic record, which was also achieved by Svetlana Podobedova who was awarded the gold medal in the competition by virtue of lighter bodyweight, though Podobedova was subsequently stripped of her medal due to doping. Zabolotnaya's 131 kg snatch was a (later also nullified due to doping-related cheating) Olympic record.
Dajomes was the gold medalist in the women's 76 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. [8] She won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. [9] [10] She also won the gold medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events in this competition. [10]