HANGZHOU: North Korea continued an eye-catching display in the weightlifting at the Hangzhou Asian Games when Kim Il Gyong lifted 111kg, setting a new world record for the snatch in the women's 59kg category on day eight of competition on Monday (Oct 2). Kim's lift, achieved with the 20-year-old's third sn
North Korea’s Kim Il Gyong competes in the women’s 59kg group A weightlifting competition during the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province on Oct 2, 2023. HANGZHOU: North Korea continued an eye-catching display in the weightlifting at the Hangzhou Asian Games when Kim Il Gyong lifted 111kg, setting a new world record for the snatch in the women's 59kg category on day eight of competition on Monday .
The snatch is one half of the final where athletes hoist the bar up in one movement. In the other half, the clean and jerk, athletes first lift the bar up to sit on their shoulders and then attempt to hoist the bar up above their heads as they jump and land with one foot in front of the other. Kim, who like several of her rivals sported knee supports in the Xiaoshan sports centre venue, had suggested she was serious about winning early on by opting to make her first lift on 103kg, at a weight so high only one of her rivals, China's Luo Sifang, was still lifting.
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