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Nationality | Taiwanese |
Born |
Lunbei, Yunlin, Taiwan |
9 May 1991
Height | 159 cm (5 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 52.5 kg (116 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | Chinese Taipei |
Sport | Weightlifting |
Event(s) | 53 kg |
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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.