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MARISSA KLINGSEIS SECURES BRONZE AT THE 2013 IWF JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN LIMA, PERU
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5 Morghan King Sets American
Record at 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Morghan King (48kg) skyrocketed to the top of the sport in the blink of an eye. Only lifting competitively for four years, King earned a spot on the 2016 Olympic Team with a stellar performance at Olym- pic Team Trials in Salt Lake City. She was Team USA Weightlifting’s first athlete to compete at the 2016 Olympic Games. In her third snatch attempt, King success- fully lifted 83kg, a new American Record. That record stood for 16 years and was held by Tara Nott Cunningham, the 2000 Olympic Champion.
4 2014 Pan American Championships
The 2014 Pan American Championships in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic proved successful for Team USA. Captur- ing 16 medals, including two golds, Team USA men and women both finished 4th in the team standings. Caine Wilkes (+105kg) won bronze in the snatch with a 178kg lift, gold in the clean & jerk with a 221kg lift and gold in total with 399kg. Ian Wilson (105kg) won silver in snatch with a 173kg lift, bronze in clean & jerk with a 200kg lift and a silver in the total with 373kg. Dan- gelo Osorio (94kg), Travis Cooper (77kg), Geralee Vega Morales (63kg), Jenny Ar- thur (75kg) and Chioma Amaechi (+75kg)
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all picked up medals for the United States. CJ Cummings Sets World Records;
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Wins 2 World Championships in 2016 Before 2016 it had been 46 years since an American male set a new World Record. CJ Cummings (69kg) set three world re- cords. In June at the Junior World Cham- pionships in Tbilisi, Georgia, Cummings set a new Youth World Record with a 175kg clean & jerk lift. Moments later he broke that record with a 180kg lift. He set another Youth World Record with a total of 317kg. Cummings became the sec- ond American ever to win a Junior World Championship. It was the first time an American set a new world record since 1994 when 2000 Olympian Robin Byrd- Goad did it in 1994. Cummings was the first American male since Artie Drechsler who set a world record in 1970. Five months later in November, Cummings set a new Youth World Record in the clean & jerk with a 182kg lift. Cummings went on to win the Youth World Championship, his second world championship of the year.
2 USA Awarded 2015 IWF World
Championships The United States welcomed the world to Houston when the International Weight- lifting Federation Weightlifting World Championships were held at the George
R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. Hosted by USA Weightlifting and Harris County-Houston Sports Authority, 585 athletes from 94 countries partici- pated during the nine days of competi- tion. SportsTravel Magazine awarded the World Championships the “Best Amateur Single-Sport Event of the Year” award for its superior organization and spectacu- lar attendance and creating a superior experience for competitors and specta- tors. The United States will welcome the world’s weightlifting athletes again in 2017 with the 2017 IWF Weightlifting World Championships to be held in Ana- heim, California.
1 Sarah Robles Wins Bronze at 2016
Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Entering the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Team USA had not won an Olympic medal in weightlift- ing since 2000, when Tara Nott Cunning- ham (48kg) won Gold and Cheryl Haworth (+75kg) won Bronze. That changed when Sarah Robles stepped onto the platform at Riocentro Pavillion 2 at the 2016 Olym- pic Games. Robles went six-for-six. Her best snatch was 126kg, her best clean & jerk was 160kg for a total of 286kg. That was enough to secure a bronze medal, ending the United States’ 16-year Olym- pic medal drought.
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