Taiwan's efforts at the World Weightlifting Championship were overshadowed by China's Wang Mingjuan, who set three weightlifting world records on Tuesday in the women's 48kg category.
The 17-year-old Wang set world records with a lift of 92.5kg in the snatch, 115.5kg in the clean and jerk with a total of 207.5kg to win the gold medal.
Wang beat her own snatch record of 90kg, which she won at the junior world championships in Havirov, Czech Republic, in June. She beat compatriot Li Zhou's clean and jerk record of 115kg, set in June this year in Izmir, Turkey. In the total, Wang bettered her own record of 200kg from Havirov.
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``I have been weightlifting since 1996 and I enjoy hard workouts,'' she said.
``I like this sport very much even though it calls for so much sacrifice.''
Silver went to Turkey's Nurcan Taylan, who lifted 87.5kg in the snatch and 105 in the clean and jerk for a total of 192.5. She called for 91kg in the snatch and 112.5 in the clean and jerk but failed.
Izabela Dragneva of Bulgaria got third with a snatch of 82.5, a clean and jerk of 100 and a total of 182.5.
``I am especially pleased with the medal because I had a two-year break,'' Dragneva said. ``I can promise that this is not my last world championships.''
Taiwan's Chen Han-tung (陳涵彤), the bronze medallist of the 2001 World Championships in Antalya, Turkey, was fourth. She lifted 77.5 in the snatch but failed in all her clean and jerk attempts.
Later Tuesday, China's Wu Meijin (
Turkey's Halil Mutlu, the world record holder in the 56kg weight class, was missing because of injury. ``I came to Warsaw to fight against Mutlu. He is my goal, pity he suffered an injury,'' Wu said.
``If he were here the competition would have been much more exciting.
``I obtained the best result I could afford under the conditions. I can only dream of 300kg in total,'' Wu added.
Taiwan's Yang Chin-yi (
Lighter weight allowed him to win over Romania's Adrian Jigau, who had identical results.
Vitaly Derbenev, 26, of Belarus was aiming for a medal but failed in all attempts to lift the 145kg he called for in the clean and jerk.
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