Egyptian weightlifter Roufaida Fathy won bronze in the women’s 69kg clean and jerk at the World Weightlifting Championships in China on Tuesday, securing Egypt’s fourth medal at the competition.
The 23-year-old lifted 137kg to finish third behind North Korea’s Song Kuk-hyang, who won gold with 153kg, and compatriot Ri Suk, who took silver with 147kg.
Fathy finished 22nd in the snatch with 101kg, before placing ninth overall with a combined total of 238kg, 37kg behind Song.
Her bronze was Egypt’s fourth medal at the championships, following Abdelrahman “Abdo” Younes’s three-medal haul in the men’s 85kg category, where he won gold, silver and bronze and set a world record in the total.
Egypt are represented by six weightlifters at the championships. Olympic medallist Sara Samir is scheduled to compete in the women’s 77kg category on Thursday 5 November.
Gamal Metwaly will contest the men’s 110kg Group A on Friday 6 November 6, while Rahma Ahmed El Sayed will conclude Egypt’s campaign in the women’s over-86kg Group B on Sunday, 8 November.
Earlier, Egyptian weightlifter Ahmed Nasr finished 20th in the men’s 75kg category with a total of 325kg, comprising 145kg in the snatch and 180kg in the clean and jerk.
source/content: english.ahram.org.eg (headline edited)
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