Pak Jong-ju (born 14 March 1997) is a North Korean

weightlifter Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...

competing in the 69 kg and 62 kg categories until 2018 and 67 kg starting in 2018 after the

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reorganized the categories.

Career

He was the Gold Medalist at the

2014 Summer Youth Olympics The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Youth Olympic Games, Summer Youth Olympic Games, an ...

in the 62 kg category. In 2018 he competed in the newly created 67 kg division at the

2018 World Weightlifting Championships The 2018 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 1 to 10 November 2018. This was the first World Championship after the International Weightlifting Federation, IWF changed their weight classes and nullified all w ...

and finished sixth. He competed at the 2019 IWF World Cup (a qualifying event for the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

) held in

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. He won a gold medal in the total with 318 kg competing in the 67 kg division.

Major results

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pak, Jong-ju Living people North Korean male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics 1997 births World Weightlifting Championships medalists Youth Olympic gold medalists for North Korea 21st-century North Korean sportsmen Weightlifters at the 2022 Asian Games