O Kang-chol
Appearance
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Nationality | North Korean | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 16 September 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72.85 kg (161 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | North Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | –73 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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O Kang-Chol or O Khang-Chol (born 16 September 1993) is a North Korean weightlifter and Asian Games Champion competing in the 69 kg category until 2018 and 73 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[1]
Career
[edit]He competed at the 69 kg class at the 2018 Asian Games and won a gold medal in that event.[2][3] Later in 2018 he competed in the newly created 73 kg weight class and finished fifth overall at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships
Major results
[edit]Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
World Championships | ||||||||||||
2018 | ![]() |
73 kg | 148 | 152 | 154 | 5 | 185 | 9 | 339 | 5 | ||
2019 | ![]() |
73 kg | 150 | 154 | 5 | 185 | 191 | 193 | ![]() |
347 | ![]() | |
Asian Championships | ||||||||||||
2017 | ![]() |
69 kg | 143 | 148 | ![]() |
176 | 183 | ![]() |
331 | ![]() | ||
2019 | ![]() |
73 kg | 150 | ![]() |
183 | 188 | ![]() |
338 | ![]() | |||
Asian Games | ||||||||||||
2018 | ![]() |
69 kg | 147 | 151 | 1 | 181 | 185 | 2 | 336 | ![]() |
References
[edit]- ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 73 kg
- ^ "North Korea's O Kang-chol wins gold in men's 69kg weightlifting". The Korea Herald. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ "EMOTIONAL NORTH KOREAN DEDICATES ASIAN GAMES GOLD TO HIS LATE MOTHER". Olympic Channel. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
External links
[edit]Categories:
- Living people
- North Korean male weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters for North Korea
- Asian Games medalists in weightlifting
- Asian Games gold medalists for North Korea
- Weightlifters at the 2018 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- 1993 births
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- 21st-century North Korean people