(ECNS) -- China won 17 gold, 10 silver and six bronze medals at the 2026 World Weightlifting Championships, which ended Sunday in Ningbo in eastern China's Zhejiang province.
Held Oct. 27-Nov. 8, the championships marked the event's return to China after 31 years. The competition also served as the first qualifying event for weightlifting at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and drew more than 500 athletes from more than 90 countries and regions in 16 weight categories.
China sent a full team of 16 athletes. On the opening day, Asian Games champion Yang Yang won gold in the men's 60-kilogram snatch and total. He Yueji later won the men's 65-kilogram snatch title.
In the women's events, Zhang Haiqin won gold in the snatch and total in the 53-kilogram category, edging out U.S. athlete Ulrey by one kilogram. Pei Xinyi won all three gold medals in the women's 61-kilogram category, with a 112-kilogram snatch, a 142-kilogram clean and jerk, and a 254-kilogram total. Yang Qiuxia and Peng Cuiting won the three gold medals between them in the women's 77-kilogram category.
Liao Guifang and Li Yan also won all three gold medals in the women's 86-kilogram and over-86-kilogram categories, respectively.
(By Tang Yuxian)
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