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DPRK weightlifter bags gold medals in 2024 IWF World Championships

Date: 08/12/2024 | Source: Voice of Korea (EN) | Read original version at source

Pang Un Chol of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea bagged gold medals in the 2024 IWF World Championships now under way in Manama of Bahrain.

The championships brought together more than 470 excellent men and women weightlifters from over 90 countries and regions including the DPRK, China, Kazakhstan, France and Brazil.

Pang Un Chol jerked 154 kilograms and took the first place in the men's 55-kg event on the 6th.

In the meantime, Won Hyon Sim won silver medals in snatch, clean and jerk and total of the women's 45-kg event respectively.

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