Staff writer, with CNA On Saturday at the 2024 IWF World Weightlifting Championships in Bahrain, Taiwan’s Lin Cheng-jing claimed a bronze medal in the clean and jerk category for women’s under-49 kg. Lin secured her inaugural medal at a World Weightlifting Championships by lifting 107kg in the clean and jerk of her weight class, which […]
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Staff writer, with CNA
On Saturday at the 2024 IWF World Weightlifting Championships in Bahrain, Taiwan’s Lin Cheng-jing claimed a bronze medal in the clean and jerk category for women’s under-49 kg.
Lin secured her inaugural medal at a World Weightlifting Championships by lifting 107kg in the clean and jerk of her weight class, which was 2kg above the weight lifted by the Philippines’ Rosegie Ramos. However, Ramos took home bronze for the overall combined lift, having surpassed Lin by 5kg in the snatch.
Gold went to Ri Song-gum from North Korea in the combined lift with a total of 213kg, while China’s Xiang Linxiang earned silver with a total of 212kg.
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Ramos concluded her lifts in third place with a total of 193kg, just ahead of Lin, who totaled 190kg.
Lin attempted to secure the combined bronze by lifting 111kg in the clean and jerk, but was unable to execute the lift. Her successful lift of 107kg marked a personal record.
The 24-year-old Lin dedicated eight years to track and field as a young competitor before transitioning to weightlifting while enrolled at Taipei Municipal Lishan Senior High School.
After three years of dedicated training, she began to gain recognition and was inducted into the national sports training team in August 2018.
During the 2022 Asian Weightlifting Championships, she captured two silver medals, but subsequently encountered a series of elbow ligament and tendon injuries that hampered her training.
As a result of these injuries, she did not perform well at a qualifying event for the Paris Olympics in Thailand, the IWF World Cup, and was unable to qualify.
Lin is currently designated as a Level 5 athlete in the Sports Administration’s Golden Plan 2.0 for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
The Golden Plan aims to identify elite athletes with the highest likelihood of securing medals at the Olympics, offering tailored training and essential resources.
