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China's Gu sets world records in weightlifting
(AP)
Updated: 2005-11-12 15:21
Chinese teen Gu Wei shattered two world records in winning the women's 58-kilogram class at the world weightlifting championships at Sheikh Jassim Stadium in Al Sadd on Friday.
China's Olympic champion Shi Zhiyong also won the men's 69-kilogram division.
Gu Wei of China lifts during the women's 58kg category in the World Weightlifting Championships in Doha November 11, 2005.[Reuters] |
In the women's event, Thailand's Wandee Kameaim, an Athens Olympics bronze medallist, put the pressure on Gu with a clean and jerk world record of 135 kilograms on her third lift, two kilograms better than the previous mark by China's Sun Caiyan in Izmir in June 2002.
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