Olympics: Liu sets 69kg weightlifting world record

Thursday, 14 August 2008

BEIJING - Liu Chunhong of China bettered her own world record in the women's weightlifting 69kg class on the same day by hoisting 128kg in the snatch at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday.

The 23 year-old defending Olympic champion declared her intentions early by announcing an initial total attempt of 276kg, gunning for her own Olympic records in the snatch, clean and jerk and total lifts.

She later changed her initial snatch attempt to 120kg, but went for the world record itself on her second attempt of 125kg, erasing Oxana Slivenko's 22 month-old standard of 123kg.

For her last snatch attempt Liu obliterated her own two minute-old world record by heaving a massive 128kg.