The 2023 World Youth Weightlifting Championships will be held in Albania today. Pan Xingzhen (middle), the weightlifting team of Luzhu High School in Kaohsiung City, won three gold medals in the 49kg category and broke the national record.

(Provided by the Education Bureau)

[Reporter Fang Zhixian/Kaohsiung Report] The 2023 World Youth Weightlifting Championships will be held in Albania today. Pan Xingzhen, a weightlifting team from Luzhu High School in Kaohsiung City, won the 3rd prize in the 49kg youth group with a snatch of 73kg, a clean and jerk of 90kg, and a total of 163kg. Gold medal, and break the national record.

Lu Zhengchuanjin, the principal of Luzhu High School, said that the school established a support club for the sports team, and raised funds from the private sector and enterprises to help the economically disadvantaged sports students of the school. Pan Xingzhen won three gold medals in snatch, clean and jerk and a total of 163 The kilogram also broke the national record. The school is honored. Pan Xingzhen, who is small, has repeatedly achieved good results in international competitions. He also hopes that the students in the school's physical education class will follow her.

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Pan Xingzhen lives in Hunei District, Kaohsiung City. Her mother is a new resident from Vietnam. She is the second child. She is a weightlifter with her eldest sister Pan Chunjin and third sister Pan Meijin.

They came from low-income households with poor backgrounds, and their father’s part-time job was the main source of income; the eldest sister who was studying in college relied on part-time jobs to support herself, while Pan Xingzhen and Pan Meijin received nutrition and competition bonuses for weightlifting training.

The Pan family currently lives in a metal-covered space on the top floor. A few years ago, they were living in financial difficulties, and all walks of life extended a helping hand.

Pan Xingzhen and Pan Meijin once said in an interview that they only practiced weightlifting because of poverty, but they gradually developed interest.

The 2023 World Youth Weightlifting Championships will be held in Albania today. Pan Xingzhen (middle), the weightlifting team of Luzhu High School in Kaohsiung City, won three gold medals in the 49kg category and broke the national record.

(Provided by the Education Bureau)