[National Sports Festival] Weightlifter Park Hye-jung wins gold medal in women’s general division, heavyweight, for 4 consecutive years

(Seogwipo = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-ah = Park Hye-jeong (Goyang City Hall), the leading female weightlifter in Korea, won a gold medal for four consecutive years in the general division of the National Sports Festival.

Park Hye-jeong lifted 128kg in snatch, 166kg in clean and jerk, and 294kg in total in the 86kg and over category of the women's general division at the 107th National Sports Festival held at the Sarabong Multipurpose Gymnasium in Jeju City on the 18th, taking first place and winning three gold medals for Gyeonggi Province.

At the National Sports Festival in weightlifting, medals are awarded in all three categories: snatch, clean and jerk, and total.

Park Hye-jeong, who has been unemployed for four years, has won the national sports championships in all competitions since 2023, the first year. He ranked first in all categories of the National Sports Festival except for the 2023 hike (second place).

Park Hye-jung, who won a silver medal by setting new Korean records in the snatch (133 kg) and total weight (300 kg) at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games held last month, reaffirmed her status as the country's strongest athlete at the National Sports Festival.

In the women's 86kg class, Kim Soo-hyun (Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall) took first place with 112kg in snatch, 144kg in clean and jerk, and 256kg in total, winning three gold medals.