The first medal of Ukraine at the World Cup in Colombia
Ukrainian Kamila Konotop won small bronze medal in a dash for weightlifting world championship in Bogota (Colombia).
21-year-old Konotop, performing in the weight category up to 59 kg, showed the third result in the snatch – 102 kg.
In the clean and jerk Camila managed to fix 121 kg, and gaining a total of 223 kg, she took the sixth final place. The Ukrainian woman was 8 kg short of the final bronze. And the sum of the champion in this weight Colombian Fernanda Alvarez Caicedo is 234 kg.
Ukrainian women Maria Gangur (64 kg), Irina Dekha (81 kg), Alina Marushchak (81 kg) and Anastasia Manevskaya (87 kg) will also perform at the World Championships in Colombia.
Recall that in October Konotop won the U-23 European Championship in Durres, Albania.
- Weightlifting. World Championship. Bogotá (Colombia). Women. 59 kg
1. Fernanda Alvarez Caicedo (Colombia) – 234 (101 +133)
2. Hsin-Chun Kuo (Taiwan) – 232 (102 + 130)
3. Maud Sharron (Canada) – 231 (103 + 128)
6. Kamila Konotop (Ukraine) – 223 (102 + 121)
Source: Sportarena
