Taiwanese weightlifter Lo Ying-yuan on Thursday won two gold medals and one silver in the women’s 87kg category at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Jinju, South Korea.
Lo won her two golds in the snatch, with 110kg, and the combined weight total with 241kg.
In the clean and jerk, she took second place with 131kg to win the silver medal, just 1kg behind South Korean weightlifter Yun Ha-je, who took first place with 132kg.
Photo courtesy of Huang Da-te
However, Lo’s combined total was 10kg heavier than that of the second-placed South Korean, who finished with 231kg.
Seven weightlifters competed in the women’s 87kg division, including Zeinab Sheikh Hassan Arbab of Iran and Anamjan Rustamova of Turkmenistan.
After the tournament, Lo said she was happy about competing in the championships, but added that her performance could have been better.
“I still have a little regret about the results, because I had planned to break the national record before coming to Jinju,” she told the Central News Agency by telephone.
Taiwan’s national record for the women’s 87kg category, which Lo set last year at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Manama, Bahrain, was 110kg in the snatch, 133kg in the clean and jerk, and 243kg for the combined weight total.
After failing with two of her attempts in the snatch and clean and jerk, Lo said that she decided to play it safe with her third attempt.
The weightlifter explained that if she had succeeded with the 110kg snatch at her second attempt, she would have gone for 113kg for her next lift.
In the clean and jerk, Lo said she would have aimed for 136kg if she had successfully lifted 130kg with the second lift.
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