Jang Mi-ran

Korean spelling
Hangeul	장미란
Hanja	張美蘭
Revised Romanization	Jang Mi-ran
McCune- Reischauer	Chang Miran
See also : Korean name

Jang Mi-ran (2012)

Jang Mi-ran (born October 9, 1983 in Wonju ) is a South Korean weightlifter .

Career

Jang Mi-ran has been a weightlifter since she was 14. The 1.80 m tall athlete weighs around 130 kg; According to the organizer of the 2008 Summer Olympics, the 1.71 m tall athlete weighed around 117 kg at the time. Under her coach Yeom Dongchul, she grew into world class at the age of 18. She had bad luck at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . After the break, she was 7.5 kg in front of the Chinese Tang Gonghong , who, however, overtook her with a special performance in pushing. However, the attempt by the Chinese woman was not entirely correct, because she did not manage, as prescribed in the regulations, to place her feet parallel to each other with the weight held above her head. The jury still considered the Chinese's attempt to be valid, and Jang had to be satisfied with the silver medal. In 2006 she achieved a new world record in a duel at an event in Wonju, South Korea, weighing 318 kg.

Jang Mi-ran was also world champion in duels in 2006 in Santo Domingo and 2007 in Chiang Mai / Thailand . She beat the Chinese Mu Shuangshuang both times . In 2006 both athletes achieved 314 kg in a duel and 319 kg in 2007. Jang won because of their lower body weight.

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, KG = body weight)

• 2001, 3rd place , June World Championships in Thessaloniki , over 75 kg body weight, with 250 kg, behind Cheryl Haworth , USA , 275 kg and Viktória Varga , Hungary , 260 kg,
• 2003, 5th place , World Championships in Vancouver , over 75 kg, with 272.5 kg, behind Ding Meiyuan , China , 300 kg, Albina Chomitsch , Russia , 290 kg, Olha Korobka , Ukraine , 277.5 kg and Viktória Varga , Hungary, 272.5 kg;
• 2004, silver medal , OS in Athens , over 75 kg body weight, with 302.5 kg, behind Tang Gonghong , China, 305 kg and in front of Agata Wrobel , Poland , 290 kg;
• 2005, 1st place , World Championships in Doha , S, with 300 kg, ahead of Mu Shuangshuang , China, 300 kg and Cheryl Haworth, 287.5 kg:
• 2006, 1st place , three-country fight South Korea - China - Japan in Wonju / South Korea, over 75 kg body weight, with 318 kg (world record)
• 2006, 2nd place , Asian Games in Doha , over 75 kg body weight, with 313 kg (135 kg / 178 kg), behind Mu Shuangshuang, 317 kg (139 kg / 178 kg) and Moontar Annipa, Thailand , 265 kg (117 kg / 148 kg);
• 2006, 1st place , World Championship in Santo Domingo , over 75 kg, with 314 kg (135 kg / 179 kg), ahead of Mu Shuangshuang, China, 314 kg (136 kg / 178 kg) and Olha Korobka , Ukraine , 284 kg (127 kg / 157 kg);
• 2007, 1st place , World Championships in Chiang Mai / Thailand, over 75 kg body weight, with 319 kg (138 kg / 181 kg), ahead of Mu Shuangshuang, 319 kg (139 kg / 180 kg) and Olha Korobka, 281 kg (126 kg / 155 kg)
• 2008, gold medal OS in Beijing , over 75 kg body weight, with 326 kg (world record) (140 kg / 186 kg) in front of Olha Korobka, Ukraine , 277 kg and Marija Grabowezkaja , Kazakhstan , 270 kg

Medals individual disciplines

(World Cup medals are no longer awarded at the Olympic Games)

• World Cup gold medal: 2005, push, 172 kg, 2006, push, 179 kg, 2007, push, 181 kg
• World Cup silver medal: 2005, tear, 128 kg, 2006, tear, 135 kg, 2007, tear, 138 kg
• World Championship bronze medal: 2003, push, 157.5 kg

World records

(heavyweight, achieved over 75 kg body weight)

With her performance at the Summer Olympics on August 16, 2008, she set three world records, which also represented Olympic records:

• 140 kg in snatch
• 186 kg in the push
• 326 kg in a duel

Before that, she had already held the world record in snatching from May 22, 2005 to December 5, 2006 with 138 kg, which the Chinese Mu Shuangshuang improved by 1 kg on December 6, 2006. Her old duel world record of 318 kg lasted from May 22, 2005 to September 25, 2007; Mu Shuangshuang also improved this record by 1 kg.

The world record in snatching has been improved seven times since September 2010 by Tatiana Kashirina to currently (March 2013) 151 kg, achieved at the Olympic Games in London on August 5, 2012.

Jang himself increased the world record in pushing by 1 kg on November 28, 2009 and lost it on November 9, 2012 to the Chinese Suping Meng with 188 kg (as of March 2013).

The duel world record was increased to 328 kg by the Chinese Lulu Zhou on November 13, 2011 and at the Olympic Games in London on August 5, 2012, it was first improved by Kashirina to 332 kg and then by Zhou to 333 kg (status: March 2013 ).

Web links

• Jang Mi-ran in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Photo Beijing 2008

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Jong is the family name here, Mi-ran is the first name.