Pei Xinyi is a 17-year-old Chinese player.

(taken from IWF official website)

[Sports Center/Comprehensive Report] Young people are awesome!

The 17-year-old Chinese teenager Pei Xinyi surprised everyone in the Colombian World Championships. She won three gold medals in the women's 64kg class in the snatch, clean and jerk and the sum, and also broke the junior world record. She will return to 59kg later. He is expected to face my country's "Goddess of Weightlifting" Guo Yuchun in the world arena or in the Paris Olympics.

Pei Xinyi, who was only 17 years old, lifted 100 kilograms in the first snatch, which was 2 kilograms more than the junior world record. He won the gold medal in the snatch with 105 kilograms. In the end, the total weight of 233 kg won three gold medals, and all three were innovative.

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Since there is no women's 64kg weight class in the Paris Olympics, Pei Xinyi will return to the 59 kg weight class and will compete with Guo Yuchun, Colombian Yenny Fernanda Alvarez Caicedo, compatriots Luo Shifang and Luo Xiaomin.

Guo Yuchun received 2 silver medals with a clean and jerk weight of 130 kg and a total of 232 kg, and missed five consecutive championships. Guo Yuchun recently expressed his heart on IG that this World Championships is really an impossible task, especially in the year after the Olympics It’s an adjustment year, and with the impact of the epidemic and injuries, she managed to practice several times and started again, so she called this year the “again” year

Guo Yuchun believes that due to the emergence of many young players, and other players who have been downgraded or promoted, the competition will become very large. No matter what my state is in the Olympics, I have to fight with all my strength, so adapting to any state is also a kind of preparation.”

Guo Yuchun.

(File photo, Reuters)

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