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China's Liao Guifang claimed three gold medals in the women's 71kg category at the Asian Weightlifting Championships on Tuesday.
The 21-year-old lifted 120kg in the snatch, 148kg in the clean and jerk, and 268kg in total, as the snatch and total setting new world records.
Chinese national weightlifting team's Weibo poster on May 10 honors Liao Guifang's three gold medals at the Asian Weightlifting Championships. /Chinese national weightlifting team
Romanian weightlifter Loredana Toma owned the previous world record in the snatch as she lifted 119 kg during the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships.
Liao also outclassed compatriot Zhang Wangli, who set the world record with a total of 167 kg during the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships
Liao Guifang of China competes during the Asian World Championships. /Chinese national weightlifting team
"I will continue to train hard," said Liao after the competition.
"This time I was not so stressed, I took it easy and treated this competition just like a training session, and it went much better."
The ongoing weightlifting event runs from May 5 to 13 in Jinju, South Korea.
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