Chinese lifter breaks 3 records on way to gold

Close X

To Start receiving timely alerts please follow the below steps:

Click on the Menu icon of the browser, it opens up a list of options.
Click on the “Options ”, it opens up the settings page,
Here click on the “Privacy & Security” options listed on the left hand side of the page.
Scroll down the page to the “Permission” section .
Here click on the “Settings” tab of the Notification option.
A pop up will open with all listed sites, select the option “ALLOW“, for the respective site under the status head to allow the notification.
Once the changes is done, click on the “Save Changes” option to save the changes.

Sydney: Chinese weightlifter Yang Xia smashed three world records today to take the Olympic gold medal in the women's 53-kg competition.

Taiwan's Li Feng-Ying also broke a world record in the snatch only to see Yang eclipse it minutes later. Li took silver while Winarni Slamet of Indonesia took bronze.

Li lifted a world record 98 kgs in the first section of the contest, but Yang beat it with 100 kgs, becoming the first woman ever to snatch a three-figure weight.

The tiny Chinese woman then lifted a world record 122.5 kgs in the clean and jerk before upping the record to 125 kgs with her second lift for a total, and new overall world record of 225 kgs.

(c) Reuters Limited.

Story first published: Thursday, August 24, 2017, 17:46 [IST]

Other articles published on Aug 24, 2017

Sporting Buzz

Chinese lifter breaks 3 records on way to gold