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DRP Korea's weightlifer breakes world records of women's 49kg category at Asian Games

Nagoya (Japan) DPR Korea's Ri Song Gum broke the world record to win her country's first gold medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
She set three world records in the women's 49kg category. Ri lifted 94kg in the snatch, 121kg in clean and jerk, and totaled 215kg - all three marks broke the world record under the new competition cycle.
The gold medal in the women's 49kg category was DPR Korea's first gold of the Asian Games, according to Xinhua.
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