Sa Jae-hyouk

Korean spelling
Hangeul	사재혁
Hanja	史 載 赫
Revised Romanization	Sa Jae-hyeok
McCune- Reischauer	Sa Chaehyŏk
See also : Korean name

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

Career

Sa Jae-hyuk is from Hongcheon in Gangwon-do Province in South Korea . He lives there and began lifting weights as a teenager, which is currently his profession.

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

In 2007 he started in Chiang Mai, Thailand for the first time at a world championship for seniors. He had meanwhile grown into the middleweight division and achieved 353 kg (153-200). With this performance he finished 5th and won a bronze medal in the World Championship with his shock performance of 200 kg.

The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing became the highlight of Sa Jae-hyuk's career so far . He succeeded there as the first foreign weightlifter to interrupt the winning streak of domestic Chinese weightlifters. He managed it in the middleweight duel 366 kg (163-203) and won the gold medal in front of the Chinese Li Hongli , who also came to 366 kg, but was a little heavier than Sa. He owed this victory primarily to his outstanding performance in pushing with 203 kg, with which he caught up with a gap of 5 kg after the tear on Li.

At the 2009 World Championships in Goyang / South Korea Sa Jae-hyuk achieved a middleweight weight of 365 kg (160-205). Although he came up to his duel performance from the 2008 Olympic Games up to 1 kg, this performance was only enough for 4th place. The winner and world champion was the outstanding Chinese Lu Xiaojun , who weighed 378 kg (174-204). But Sa had the satisfaction of winning the world championship gold medal in pushing with 205 kg .

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
2005	1.	Junior World Championships in Busan	Light	with 324 kg (145-179), off Mete Binay , Turkey , 323 kg (150-173) and Yao Yuewei, China , 316 kg (151-165)
2007	5.	World Cup in Chiang Mai	medium	with 353 kg (153-200), behind Iwan Stoitschkow , Bulgaria , 363 kg (158-205), Geworg Dawtjan , Armenia , 362 kg (164-198), Li Hongli , China , 361 kg (166-195) and the like. Kim Kwang-hoon, South Korea , 356 kg (155–201)
2008	gold	OS in Beijing	medium	with 366 kg (163–203), before Li Hongli, 366 kg (168–198) and Geworg Dawtjan, 360 kg
2009	4th	World Cup in Goyang / South Korea	medium	with 365 kg (160–205), behind Lu Xiaojun , China, 378 kg (174–204), Tigran Martirosjan , Armenia, 370 kg (170–200) and the like. Su Dajin , China, 365 kg (165-200)

World Cup individual medals

• World Cup gold medal: 2009 / push / medium
• World Cup bronze medal: 2007 / push / medium

Explanations

• all competitions in single combat, consisting of snatch and push,
• OS = Olympic Games,
• WM = World Championship
• Lightweight, weight class up to 69 kg body weight,
• Middle weight, weight class up to 77 kg body weight,
• the competitions at the Olympic Games have not counted as world championships since 1988

swell

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

Web links

• Sa Jae-hyouk at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Sa Jae-hyouk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Sa is the family name here, Jae-hyouk is the first name.