K'Duong (middle) celebrates his gold medal at the Asian Youth & Junior Weightlifting Championships in Uzbekistan on July 18. (Photo: AWF) K’Duongsuccessfully lifted all three times in the snatch, with the best weight of113kg. In the clean and jerk, he continued to successfully lift 143kg.
With a totallift of 256kg, K’Duong broke a total of six youth records, including threeworld records (the old world records were 111kg, 140kg and 248kg, respectively)and three Asian records (111kg, 137kg and 246kg, respectively).
Born in 2007in Lam Dong province, K’Duong trains at the National Athlete Training Centre inBac Ninh province. Over the past two years, he has won gold medals at thenational youth weightlifting tournaments.
It was apodium one-two for Vietnam in the 55kg category with Duong Tuan Kiet alsowinning three silver medals, with his results of 112kg, 124kg and 248kg intotal.
Earlier, inthe women’s 45kg division, Nguyen Thi Thu Hoai took a bronze medal for 68kg inthe snatch, a silver medal for 84kg in the clean and jerk, and a bronze forlifting 152kg in total.
Tran Thi BacGiang could only finish sixth in the snatch with 63kg, fourth place in theclean and jerk with 82kg and fifth position in the total lift with 145kg.
In the men’s49kg, Bui Minh Dao took two gold medals in the clean and jerk and total lift,while A Tieu won a gold medal in the snatch.
Duong ThiKim Yen also took a gold medal in the clean and jerk in the women's 40kgcategory with her result of 73kg.
After twodays of competition, Vietnamese athletes won 10 gold medals overall.
Around 300participants from 21 countries are taking part in the competition which willend on July 25./.
VNA
