North Korea Weightlifter Sets Three World Records for Asian Games Gold
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N. Korea's Ri Song-gum wins gold in weightlifting, Pyongyang's 1st gold at Asian Games
NAGOYA, Japan — North Korea's Ri Song-gum won gold in the lightest weight class in women's weightlifting on Wednesday, earning her country its first gold medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. Ri finished with a total of 215 kilograms, lifting 94kg in the snatch and 121kg in the clean and jerk in the women's 48kg event at Nagoya City Trade and Industry Center in Nagoya, Japan. All three marks — her snatch, clean and jerk, and total — were new wo…
On the snatch, the North Korean raised 94 kilos, beating the previous one-kilogram mark. And on the shoulder-throw, she repeated, on two occasions even: the world record was 115 kilos and the 28-year-old woman raised two bars of 116 and 121 kilos. Her total of 215 kilos erased the previous world record of 7 kilos. With this gold medal, the first for North Korea in Nagoya, Ri Song Gu also became the first woman to win three consecutive titles at …
(Nagoya=Yonhap News) Reporter Jeon Myeong-hun = The North Korean delegation, which had been suffering from a thirst for medals in the early stages of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, [attended] its traditionally strong ... on the 23rd, four days after the opening...
North Korea weightlifter sets three world records for Asian Games gold
North Korea's Ri Song Gum gave her country their first gold of the Asian Games on Wednesday in style, setting three world records in the women's 49kg class in Nagoya. Ri became only the fourth lifter, and first woman, to win three Asian Games weightlifting golds.http://dlvr.it/TVc21p
North Korean weightlifter Ri Song Gum set a new women's world record in the under 49 kilo category at the Nagoya Asian Games on Wednesday, raising a 94 kilos bar.
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