GOYANG, South Korea, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Podobedova Sventlana of Kazakhstan broke three world records to sweep the gold medals in the women's 75kg category at the world weightlifting championships here on Saturday.
The 23-year-old lifter combined lifts of 132kg in the snatch with 160kg in the clean and jerk to finish with 292kg.
Podabedova hoisted 125kg and 130kg in her first two attempts, far higher than other lifters. In the last attempt, she asked for 132kg to challenge the world record of 131kg set by Zabolotnaia Natalia of Russia in the 2007 weightlifting worlds at Chiang Mai, Thailand, and succeeded.
Cao Lei of China, gold medalist at the Beijing Olympics, also succeeded in her all three attempts, and finished with 121kg in her last attempt to catch the silver. Khurshudyan Hripsime of Armenia took the bronze with 120kg.
Podabedova was the last one to lift in the clean and jerk. She hoisted 155kg in her second attempt for a total of 287kg to break her own world record of 286kg set at the Junior World Championships in 2006. In her last attempt, she successfully challenged 160kg, one kilo more than the previous world record set by Liu Chunhong of China at the Doha Worlds in 2005.
China's Cao took the silver with a total of 269kg, and Khurshudyan Hripsime of Armenia took the bronze with a total of 267kg.
Source:xinhuanet.com
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