Park Hye-jeong
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| Citizenship | South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 March 2003 Ansan, South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | +87 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Park Hye-jeong (Korean: 박혜정, born March 12, 2003) is a weightlifter from South Korea.
Career
She began her career as a weightlifter in Ansan when she was in her first year at Seonbu Middle School, and in 2019, she was selected for the North Korean youth national team and participated in the 2019 Asian Youth Athletics Championships held in Pyongyang, she set new youth records with 110 kg in snatch, 145 kg in clean and jerk, and 255 kg in total, defeating Aysamal Sansizbayeva (Kazakhstan) and Tang Zhiji (Taipei, China) to win the title.[1][2]
Selected as a member of the 2022 junior national team, she participated in the 2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in Heraklion, Greece last May and won gold medals with records of 120 kg in snatch, 161 kg in clean and jerk. In July of the same year, she competed at the 2022 Asian Junior Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where she won gold medals, defeating Sansizbayeva with records of 115 kg in snatch, 155 kg in clean and jerk, and 270 kg in total.[3]
2023 World Championships
She was selected for the senior national team and qualified for the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships, Colombia in December. In this competition, he ranked 8th with 119 kg in snatch, 155 kg in clean and jerk, and 274 kg in total. The following year, in May 2023, she competed at the 2023 Asian Championships in Jinju, South Korea, winning silver medals with records of 127 kg in snatch, 168 kg in clean and jerk, and 295 kg total. Later, at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in September, she took first place in both the snatch and clean and jerk with a weight of 123 kg, a clean and jerk of 165 kg, and a total of 289 kg.[4][5]
References
- ^ Ostrowicz, Seb. "Park Hye-jeong – Weightlifting House". Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ^ "S. Korean weightlifter Park Hye-jung in N. Korea". Yonhap News Agency. 2019-10-21. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ^ "Park Hyejeong". iwrp.net. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ^ "Gewichtheberin Park Hye-jeong feiert Dreifachtriumph bei WM in Riad". world.kbs.co.kr (in German). Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ^ "Park Hye-jung, a feat that even Jang Mi-ran could not achieve, winning three gold medals in the heavyweight division at the World Weightlifting Championships". SPOTV. 2023-09-17. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
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