Ding Meiyuan Lifts 300 kg, Setting 3 New World Records

Ding Meiyuan Lifts 300 kg, Setting 3 New World Records

Chinese women weightlifter Ding Meiyuan smashed three world records to claim women's +75kg gold in Sydney at the ongoing 27th Olympic Games on Friday.

Ding, from Liaoning Province, snatched 135kg to break the 130kg world record.

Then she lifted 165kg in the clean and jerk to better the world record of 160kg, thus creating a new world total record of 300kg, 10kg more than the previous world record.

The silver went to Poland's Agata Wrobel, who also broke the world records, but only saw it beaten by the Chinese woman several minutes later.

Ding helped "Chinese weightlifting dream team" fulfill their Olympic dream of winning four golds.

The women's weightlifting team have brought 4 golds for China. On September 18, Yang Xia won women's 53kg gold. Chen Xiaomin and Lin Weining snatched women's 63kg and 69kg gold medals respectively on September 19 at the 27th Olympic Games.

Earlier, China's Yang Ling won another shooting gold for China when he finished 1st in men's 10m running target final with 681.1 points in Sydney at the ongoing 27th Olympic Games on Friday.

Another Chinese shooter Niu Zhiyuan took the bronze at 677.4 points while the silver went to Moldovan of Republic of Moldova. (Source: chinadaily.com.cn)