Clarence Cummings Jr. (also known as CJ Cummings) (born 6 June 2000) is an American
Olympic weightlifter. He is a two-time Youth Pan-American champion, Junior Pan-American champion, two-time Pan-American Champion, two-time IWF Youth World champion, and four-time IWF Junior World champion. CJ has earned 38 international medals, broken four
International Weightlifting Federation
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Youth and Junior world records, and currently holds 23
USA Weightlifting American records.
Career
In 2018 he competed at the
2018 World Weightlifting Championships
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in the 73 kg category setting 4
Junior World Records. Cummings, at the
IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships, won the gold medal 2016–2018 in the -69kg weight category. At
Suva
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in 2019, Cummings again won gold in a higher weight category, -73kg.
He competed in the
men's 73 kg event at the
2020 Summer Olympics
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in Tokyo, Japan.
Major results
References
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2000 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Beaufort, South Carolina
American male weightlifters
Pan American Weightlifting Championships medalists
Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic weightlifters for the United States
21st-century American sportsmen
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