Taiwanese Olympic champion Kuo Hsing-chun won two bronze medals on Saturday at this year’s World Weightlifting Championships, being held in Forde, Norway, from Oct. 2 to Saturday.
Competing in the women’s 58kg weight class, Kuo lifted 96kg in the snatch and 128kg in the clean and jerk, finishing with a total of 224kg to claim bronze in both the clean and jerk and total categories.
During her snatch event, Kuo lifted 94kg without any problems before another successful 96kg pull in her second attempt.
Photo: Cheng Fu-yuan, CNA
She then attempted 98kg in her final lift, but failed to complete it, leaving her snatch score capped at 96kg, which placed her fifth in the event.
A Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist, Kuo has always excelled in the clean and jerk.
At Saturday’s competition, her first clean and jerk at 124kg was ruled unsuccessful after judges determined her elbow had bent during the lift.
However, the setback was short-lived as Kuo successfully lifted 125kg on her second attempt and 128kg on her third, completing both cleanly.
The results secured her third place in the clean and jerk and third overall, earning two bronze medals.
At 31 years old, Kuo was the oldest competitor among the 11 athletes in her category.
Like fellow Taiwanese lifter Chen Guan-ling, who had to cut weight to compete in the women’s 53kg category, as her usual 55kg division was not included in the championships, Kuo had to cut weight to enter the 58kg division, 1kg below her usual 59kg class, which was not featured at this year’s championships.
Kuo’s coach Lin Ching-nung said that she competed despite lingering injuries from earlier in the year.
Lin said the experience offered Kuo valuable insight into managing her performance under physical constraints, calling the event a useful stepping stone ahead of higher-level competitions.
Kuo had earlier said she entered the Norway championships not to chase medals, but to assess her potential rivals ahead of the Asian Games next year in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
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