Hung Wan-ting explained

Hung Wan-ting
Native Name Lang:zh
Birth Date:1990 6, df=yes
Alma Mater:National Taiwan Sport University
Country:Chinese Taipei
Sport:Weightlifting

Hung Wan-ting (born 21 June 1990)[1] is a Taiwanese weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the women's 69 kg event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.[1]

Early life

Hung is a native of Beinan, Taitung,[2] and attended National Taiwan Sport University.[3]

Career

At the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia, she won the silver medal in the women's 69 kg event. In 2014, she competed in the women's 69 kg event at the 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea without winning a medal. She finished in 6th place.

In 2016, she won the silver medal in the women's 69 kg event at the 2016 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[4]

In 2017, she won the bronze medal in the women's 69 kg event at the 2017 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Later that year, she won the gold medal in the women's 69 kg event at the 2017 Summer Universiade held in Taipei, Taiwan.[5] [6] In that same year, she also competed in the women's 69 kg event at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships in Anaheim, United States without winning a medal; she finished in sixth place.[7] This became fifth place after Romela Begaj of Albania tested positive for a banned substance.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Weightlifting Results Book. 2018 Asian Games. 18 May 2020.
  2. News: 廖 . 聿偉 . 「銀」回榮耀/卑南女兒洪萬庭 最後一把妥當 . 1 June 2020 . Liberty Times . 26 August 2018 . zh.
  3. News: Strong . Matthew . Taiwanese woman weightlifter wins gold at Universiade . 1 June 2020 . Taiwan News . 23 August 2017.
  4. News: Pavitt. Michael. 28 April 2016. Kazakh star Ulanov produces dominant display to claim Asian Weightlifting Championship title. InsideTheGames.biz. 18 May 2020.
  5. News: Chinese Taipei weightlifter Hung Wan-ting wins her first international gold . 1 June 2020 . China Post . 24 August 2017.
  6. News: Winters. Max. 23 August 2017. South Korea seal four archery golds on sublime day at Taipei 2017. InsideTheGames.biz. 18 May 2020.
  7. Web site: 2017 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210625132851/https://lsaf.lt/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ResultsBook_Anaheim.pdf. 25 June 2021. 25 June 2021. lsaf.lt.
  8. News: Oliver. Brian. 26 January 2019. Albanian weightlifter's eight-year doping ban means American Mattie Rogers moves up to world silver. InsideTheGames.biz. 25 June 2021.