Pawina Thongsuk

Pawina Thongsuk
Medal record
Women's Weightlifting
Competitor for  Thailand
Olympic Games
2004 Athens 75 kg
World Championships
2005 Doha 63 kg
Asian Games
2002 Busan 69 kg

Pawina Thongsuk (born April 18, 1979 in Si Khoraphum, Surin province) is a Thai weightlifter. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens she won an Olympic gold medal, with 122.5 kg snatching and 272.5 kg total in the 75 kg category.[1] In 2005, she won the World Championship in the 63 kg category.[1]

In the 2006 Asian Games in Doha she won the gold, as well as set a new world record for the 63 kg female weight class with a clean and jerk of 142 kg.[2]

Weightlifting career - personal best lifts

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 "THONGSUK Pawina". International Weightlifting Federation.
  2. "Progress of World Records, Women". International Weightlifting Federation.



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