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At the 2016 Summer Olympics Singapore won their first ever gold medal and the fifth overall. [10] Singapore's first Olympic medal was won by Tan Howe Liang, who won silver in lightweight weightlifting in 1960 Summer Olympics. The first and to date only Olympic gold medal was won by Joseph Schooling in the men's 100 metre butterfly at the 2016 ...
Tan was featured in Time's "Millennium" series on Singapore sporting greats in 1999. In 2000, McDonald's sponsored Tan's trip to the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, where he joined the Singapore contingent and attended the weightlifting competition. McDonald's also donated S$10,000 with the aim to help revive the sport of weightlifting in Singapore.
101 kg. David Mok Pingwei. 26 April 2023. EGAT Kings Cup. Clean & Jerk. 116 kg. Muhammad Syahmi Asyrani Suwardi. 26 April 2023.
Singapore Weightlifting Federation. Team. Team Singapore. Coached by. Cyril Martin. Helena Wong Kar Mun ( Chinese: 黄嘉汶; pinyin: Huáng Jiāwèn; born 11 April 1988) is a Singapore weightlifter. Wong competes in the female 53 kg weight class. She debuted at the 2010 Commonwealth Games which was held in Delhi in Oct 2010. [3]
Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics. Weightlifting has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the 1920 Summer Olympics, in Antwerp, Belgium, as well as twice before then. It debuted at the 1896 Summer Olympics, in Athens, Greece, and was also an event at the 1904 Games .
348 kg. Tatiana Kashirina. Russia. 16 November 2014. World Championships. Almaty, Kazakhstan. [24] [47] ^1 On the website of the International Weightlifting Federation, there is still the record of Nurcan Taylan (Turkey) of 121 kg who was disqualified for doping for this result. [48] Here was the previous mark.
List of Asian Games medalists in weightlifting; Weightlifting at the 1906 Intercalated Games — these Intercalated Games are no longer regarded as official Games by the International Olympic Committee; References. International Olympic Committee results database
Weightlifting (often known as Olympic weightlifting) is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with the aim of successfully lifting the heaviest weights. Athletes compete in two specific ways of lifting the barbell overhead. The snatch is a wide-grip lift, in which the ...