Sa Jae-hyouk

Sa Jae- hyouk ( Sa Jae- hyuk, born January 29, 1985 in Hongcheon ) is a South Korean weightlifter. It was 2008 Olympic champion at middleweight.

Career

Sa Jae- hyuk comes from Hongcheon in the province of Gangwon -do in South Korea. He lives there and began as a teenager with weight lifting, which is currently also his profession.

He made ​​his debut on the international stage weightlifting in 2005 at the Junior World Championship in Busan. He started there in lightweight and won a duel capacity of 324 kg ( 145-179 ) the world title before the Turks Mete Binay, 323 kg and Yao Yuewei from China, 316 kg.

In 2007 he started in Chiang Mai, Thailand for the first time at the Senior World Championships. He was now grown into the middleweight and scored 353 kg ( 153-200 ). With this performance, he finished 5th and won with his performance impact of 200 kg a World Cup bronze medal.

To the previous high point in the career of Sa Jae- hyuk were the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He succeeded there to interrupt the first foreign weightlifters the winning streak of the domestic Chinese weightlifter. He managed this in the middleweight division in a duel 366 kg ( 163-203 ), and thus won the gold medal in front of the Chinese Li Hongli, who likewise came to 366 kg, but was slightly heavier than Sa. This victory had this to mainly thanks to its excellent performance and jerk with 203 kg, with which he caught up a backlog of 5kg after tearing on Li.

At the 2009 World Championships in Goyang / Sa South Korea Jae- hyuk achieved in the Middle Weight 365 kg ( 160-205 ). Thus, although he came to his duel performance of the 2008 Olympic Games to 1 kg but this performance was enough only for fourth place. And world champion was the preeminent Chinese Lu Xiaojun, who came to 378 kg ( 174-204 ). Sat but had the satisfaction in pushing with 205 kg to win the World Championship gold medal.

International success

World Cup individual medals

  • World Championship gold medal: 2009/Stoßen/Mittel
  • World Cup bronze medal 2007/Stoßen/Mittel

Notes

  • All competitions in a duel, consisting of tearing and piercing,
  • OS = The Olympic Games,
  • WM = World Cup
  • Light weight, weight category up to 69 kg body weight,
  • Middleweight weight category up to 77 kg body weight,
  • The competitions at the Olympic Games since 1988 are no more than World Cup

Swell

  • Journal athletics,
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
  • Website " www.sports - reference.com "
  • Website " www.sports123.com
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