RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In a field depleted by doping bans, Deng Wei won Olympic gold and set a world record in women's weightlifting.
The Chinese lifter won the 63-kilogram category Tuesday, hoisting 147 kilograms in the clean and jerk and 115 in the snatch for a world-record total of 262. Deng's clean and jerk lift also broke her own world record by 1 kilo.
Choe Hyo Sim of North Korea took silver and Karina Goricheva of Kazakhstan earned bronze.
Weightlifting has been ravaged by doping in recent years, with the women's 63kg class hit particularly hard.