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Paris, Aug. 8 (CNA) Taiwanese weightlifter Kuo Hsing-chun (郭婞淳) clinched a bronze medal in the women's 59 kilograms category Thursday at the Paris Olympics.
Kuo overcame a hip injury and won her third Olympic medal with a snatch of 105kg, a clean and jerk of 130kg, and a combined lift of 235kg.
She fell behind China's Luo Shifang (羅詩芳), who had a snatch of 107kg, clean and jerk of 134kg and a combined lift of 241kg, as well as Canada's Maude Charron, who had 106kg, 130kg and 236kg.
Kuo is the first Taiwanese athlete to win three Olympic medals. She bagged a bronze in 2016 Rio, and a gold in 2021 Tokyo while setting the world record with 237kg for the combined lift in her weight class.
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