Weightlifting fairy → Ceremony fairy → Ending fairy! Park Hye-jeong's "Korean dignity" will properly promote national prestige in LA"
Aug 11, 2024
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Park Hye-jung lifted 131kg in the women's 81kg or higher weightlifting event at the 2024 Paris Olympics at South Paris Arena 6 in Paris, France on the 11th (Korea time), 168kg in Yongsang, and 299kg in total. He won a silver medal in his first Olympics.
He was great. He surpassed his Korean record of 296 kg set at the World Cup of Thailand's International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) in April by 3 kg. On the big stage of the Olympics, he won a medal with a new Korean record. In the increase, he also set a new Korean record of 1kg, exceeding the previous record (130kg).
It was a fight with himself. On this day, Park Hye-jung started off in a good mood, lifting 123kg lightly in the first period of the increase. When runner-up Campbell finished the increase with 126kg, Park Hye-jung challenged by raising her weight. In the second period of the increase, he tried 127kg instead of 125kg and lifted it up. In the third period, he succeeded up to 131kg, leading the competition.
The momentum continued even in Yongsang. Park Hye-jeong lifted 163kg in the first period of Yongsang. In the second period, he succeeded in 168kg and set a new Korean record (299kg). However, it did not lift 173kg during the third period of Yongsang. Park Hye-jeong appeared somewhat disappointed when she failed to achieve her goal in the third period. However, he soon shook his hands off and came down from the stage. The coaching staff, who was waiting below the stage, applauded Park Hye-jeong, who smiled only then.
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After the race, Park Hye-jeong said, `Honestly, I felt pressured and pressured by the fact that I was the last candidate for a medal for the Korean team at the Paris Olympics. Fortunately, I'm really happy to win a medal. Lee Won-won is a player I respect. However, the gap has narrowed. Wouldn't it be worth a fight at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics?"
Park Hye-jeong watched a video of the game of Jang Mi-ran, the second vice minister of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in 2016 when she was a first grader in middle school"I made up my mind. He was given the modifier 'post-rose' with his peer-to-peer skills. Park Hye-jeong also set specific goals of winning a medal in the first Olympics and harvesting a gold medal in the second Olympics when she was a junior in middle school.
As promised, Park Hye-jeong won a silver medal in her first Olympics. He "I've been paying a lot of attention to my weaknesses in my impressions. Efforts have been accumulated and accumulated, and the Korean record has been released this time. I will work hard for four more years and promote national prestige properly at the LA Olympics."
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Park Hye-jung, who was smiling brightly, burst into tears that she had been pressing for about four months, recalling her mother Nam Hyun-hee, who passed away in April. He said "I thought my mind would be shaken if I kept talking about my mother ahead of the important competition. So I rarely talked about my mother outside. Even though I tried not to think about my mother, I suddenly remembered. When I went up to the podium, I remembered my mother's face, so I choked up. I thought a lot about my mother while playing. If you were alive, you would have held me tight in the stadium.... I will go to Korea and visit my mother and show her a medal."
epi17@sportschosun.com
