Zulfiya Chinshanlo

Zulfiya Chinshanlo
Personal information
Born	July 25, 1993 (age 31); Almaty, Kazakhstan
Height	1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight	53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Country	Kazakhstan
Sport	Weightlifting
Event	53kg
Coached by	Viktor Ni
Medal record
Women's Weightlifting
Representing Kazakhstan
Olympic Games
Asian Games
Summer Youth Olympics
World Weightlifting Championships
	Updated on 25 July 2012

Zulfiya Chinshanlo (Kazakh: Зүлфия Чиншанло; Russian: Зульфия Чиншанло; Chinese: 赵常宁, born July 25, 1993) is a Kazakhstani weightlifter. She set a world record in the clean and jerk on July 29, 2012 at the 2012 London Olympics by lifting 131 kg.^[1]^[2] Zulfiya is an ethnic Dungan, a non-Kazakh ethnicity related to Muslim Chinese and speaking a Chinese dialect (Dungan language) as their first language; hence her Muslim last name, Chinshanlo, which appears to be a combination of her last and given Chinese names Zhao Changning (赵常宁).^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b "Zulfiya Chinshanlo". www.london2012.com. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
^ "Chinshanlo wins Olympic gold, breaks clean and jerk record". Eurosport.Yahoo.com. Retrieved 30 July 2012.

External links

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[london2012-1] "Zulfiya Chinshanlo". www.london2012.com. Retrieved 29 July 2012.

[2] "Chinshanlo wins Olympic gold, breaks clean and jerk record". Eurosport.Yahoo.com. Retrieved 30 July 2012.

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