Kim Woo-jae
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| Nationality | Korean | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 September 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80.51 kg (177.5 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 81 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Kim Woo-jae (Korean: 김우재; born 26 September 1991) is a South Korean weightlifter[1] competing in the 77 kg category until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[2] He won the bronze medal in the men's 81 kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[3]
Career
[edit]He won the silver medal at the 2018 Asian Games[4][5] in the 77 kg division.
Major results
[edit]| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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Representing  South Korea
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| World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2015 |  Houston, United States |
77 kg | 147 | 151 | 155 | 10 | 181 | 24 | 336 | 15 | ||
| 2017 | Anaheim, United States |
77 kg | 154 | 6 | 185 | 192 | 6 | 346 | 4 | |||
| 2018 |  Ashgabat, Turkmenistan |
81 kg | 156 | 8 | -- | -- | -- | |||||
| 2022 |  Bogotá, Colombia
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81 kg | 155 | 162 | 
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190 | 195 | 5 | 357 |
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| 2018 |  Jakarta, Indonesia |
77 kg | 155 | 160 | 1 | 187 | 2 | 347 | 
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References
[edit]- ^ "Kim Woo-jae". iwf.net. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group B world championship entrants in 81 kg
- ^ Oliver, Brian (11 December 2022). "Teenager Nasar gets world record after bomb-out at weightlifting World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
- ^ "Asian Games 2018 77kg division". asiangames2018.id. Archived from the original on August 23, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ AFP. "No ordinary Choe: North Korean makes epic lift to win gold". MSN. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
External links
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