Chinese Lifters Sweep 2 Golds as Le Hoists Asiad 2nd Weightlifting WR

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Chinese Lifters Sweep 2 Golds as Le Hoists Asiad 2nd Weightlifting WR

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China's veteran lifter Le Maosheng Wednesday raised the Busan Asiad second weightlifting world record in the men's 62kg class clean and jerk to collect the gold after his teammate Zhou Yan swept the women's 58kg category.

Le jerked 182.5kg, eclipsing the previous world record of 181kgset by Genady Oleshchuk of Belorussia in Antalya, Turkey, last year.

He snatched 140kg, collecting a winning total of 322.5kg from the snatch and clean and jerk, 2.5kg short of the world record for the total lifts.

"As a veteran lifter, I have already expected today's performance," the 24-year-old Le, from China's southern province of Hunan, told reporters.

Wu Shude, head coach of the Chinese weightlifting team, said: "a quality management, scientific training and working together as a team deliver our performances."

Im Yong-su of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) took the silver medal at 300kg and the bronze medal went to Cho Hyo-won of South Korea, who registered 290kg.

On Tuesday, strongwoman Ri Song-hui of the DPRK posted a new weightlifting world record in the 53kg class snatch, also the first world record of the Busan Asian Games, to win the gold of the event.

Ri snatched 102.5kg, eclipsing the previous world record of 100kg.

Earlier on Wednesday, China's strongwoman Zhou Yan, with an overwhelming leads in both the snatch and clean and jerk, raised atotal of 220kg, collecting the weightlifting gold in the women's 58kg category.

Zhou Yan, a Busan Asiad favorite, showed her dominating prowess from her snatch in which she landed 95kg. In the clean and jerk, she easily lifted 125kg in the second attempt.

She looked poised to break a the world record of 133kg in the clean and jerk when she raised the 133.5kg bar to her chest, but she failed to hoist it above her head.

"I'm satisfied with my performance today," Zhou told reporters, adding "I like the sport."

Wandee Kameaim of Thailand took the silver in the women's 58kg division at a total of 215kg and Tanti Pratiwi of Indonesia received the bronze with a total of 212.5kg.

The Chinese women lifters, sweeping seven golds in the last 13th Asian Games in 1998 in Bangkok with a total of 13 world records broken for 17 times, have expected to cement their dominance in the Asiad.

During the women's 58kg clean and jerk competition, President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah of the Olympic Council of Asia paid his visit to the strongwomen's arena, the Pukyong National University Gymnasium.

Fahad later received a gold award from the Asian Weightlifting Federation for his support to the sport.

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