The Asian Weightlifting Championships started well! Zhao Jinhong broke the 45kg snatch world record and won three gold medals in one fell swoop

On May 9, the 2025 Asian Weightlifting Championships started in Jiangshan, Zhejiang. In the women's 45kg competition, Chinese player Zhao Jinhong broke the world record for snatching and won three championships in snatching, clean and jerk and total score, winning a good start for the Chinese weightlifting team. In the first snatch competition, Zhao Jinhong lifted it up easily with a weight of 80 kilograms. Zhao Jinhong increased her weight to 88 kilograms in the second game. This time she also lifted this weight smoothly, breaking the 87 kilogram world record set by North Korean player Yuan Xiaoxin in the Thailand World Cup last year. Zhao Jinhong successfully lifted 90 kilograms in the third move, once again improving the world record.

Zhao Jinhong's starting weight was 100 kg, and Zhao Jinhong was successfully lifted up the first hand. Then Zhao Jinhong tried 111 kilograms twice in the second and third hand, but unfortunately failed. Her clean and twitch score was frozen at 100 kilograms. Although the last two tests failed, Zhao Jinhong still locked the gold medal in the jerk and total score with the weight of 100 kilograms. In the end, Zhao Jinhong won the women's 45kg class three gold medals for this Asian Championships with snatching 90 kg, 100 kg of clean and jerk and a total score of 190 kg. It is worth mentioning that the current world records of snatches (90), clean and clean (113) and total score (200) at this level are also maintained by Zhao Jinhong.

In the women's 49kg competition at the same time, Chinese player Xiang Linxiang won the bronze medal in snatch, clean and jerk and total results.