Taiwan’s Chen Guan-ling wins lifting medals

Taiwanese weightlifter Chen Guan-ling on Friday won two silver medals and one bronze in the women’s 57kg category at the World Weightlifting Championships in Ningbo, China.

Chen failed her first attempt at 90kg in the snatch, but succeeded on her second try. She failed to lift 93kg on her third attempt.

She excelled in the clean and jerk, successfully lifting 117kg, 119kg and 125kg in her three attempts to win silver in the discipline and another silver for her 215kg total.

Hsinchu County’s Chen Kuan-ling lifts during the women’s 57kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships at the Ningbo Olympic Sports Center in China on Friday.

Photo courtesy of the Chinese Taipei Weightlifting Association and the International Weightlifting Federation

The 21-year-old native of New Taipei City’s Luzhou District won a bronze medal at this year’s Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, with lifts of 95kg in the snatch and 122kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 217kg.

With her medal haul on Friday, Chen improved on her showing at the 2024 World Weightlifting Championships, where she bagged one silver and two bronze medals.

Taiwan sent eight male and eight female weightlifters to this year’s competition, which runs through Nov. 8.

The event counts toward qualification points for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

However, the women’s 57kg category is not among the six weight classes at the Los Angeles Olympics.

According to the International Weightlifting Federation, the women’s Olympic categories are 53kg, 61kg, 69kg, 77kg, 86kg and over-86kg.