Famous Weightlifting Athletes
She won her first World Championship in 2005, lifting 300 kilograms in the Women's +75 Kg weight class. In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she had such a huge lead that second place Olha Korobka of
Jang Mi-ran began weightlifting at age seventeen, following in her father and young sister's footsteps. Although having lifted the heaviest lift at the Athens Games, she finished second to Tang Gonghong winning silver.
A Canadian lifter at the 2004 Athens, Greece Olympics.
Did You Know?
The first Olympics were said to be created by Heracles (Hercules).
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