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Hsu Shu-ching

Hsu Shu-ching
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Personal information
Nationality Taiwanese
Born (1991-05-09) 9 May 1991 (age 25)
Lunbei, Yunlin, Taiwan
Height 159 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Weight 52.5 kg (116 lb)
Sport
Country Chinese Taipei
Sport Weightlifting
Event(s) 53 kg
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • Snatch: 101 kg (2014)
  • Clean and jerk: 132 kg (2014)
  • Total: 233 kg (2014, AGR, WR)

Hsu Shu-ching (Chinese: 許淑淨; pinyin: Xǔ Shú Jìng; born 9 May 1991) is a Taiwanese weightlifter. She won a gold medal in the Women's 53 kg at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She also won a gold medal in the same event at the 2012 London Olympics, after the eventual gold medalist, Zulfiya Chinshanlo failed a doping retest. At the 2014 Asian Games, she set a world record in the same event, with a lift of 233 kg. She attends Kaohsiung Medical University.

Hsu, of Hakka descent, was born in Lunbei, Yunlin, Taiwan.


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