In the sport of weightlifting, competitors attempt to lift the most weight possible.
Weightlifting explores the limits of the human body’s explosive power while most other sports focus on a player’s endurance and strength.
Even though it is one of the hardest and most demanding games in history, it is also incredibly well-liked by regular people.
It used to be a sport that was mostly played by men, but now women also participate in it.
Here is the list of top 7 best female weightlifter athlete.
7. Maude Charron
A Canadian weightlifter who competes in the 63/64 kg division and represents her country abroad, Maude G. Charron was born on April 28, 1993.
She won the women’s 64 kg division at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games. In addition, Charron holds all of the Panamerican records in her weight class, the clean & jerk Commonwealth Games record, and the snatch and overall Canadian weightlifting marks.
How Did Maude make her name among other female weightlifters in the world?
In the snatch event at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships, Charron took home the silver medal.
At the Commonwealth Games in Australia in 2018, she kept competing internationally in weightlifting. When she lifted 122 kilogrammes (269 lb) in the clean and jerk while her route to the gold medal, she set a record for the Commonwealth Games.
This record outweighed Christine Girard’s Commonwealth Games 2006 mark by 1 kilogramme.
What does Maude do now?
Josh Cassidy, a wheelchair racer, and Charron were chosen as the co-flagbearers for the opening ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
She expressed her joy at having her family join her, not being able to do so at the Olympics owing to the pandemic. In Birmingham, Charron successfully defended his title.
6. Nurcan Taylan
Turkish weightlifting champion Nurcan Taylan, born on October 29, 1983 in Ankara, is also a world and European champion.
She has one world record and six European records (and tied two more world records).
She was prohibited for two years commencing on October 26, 2011, by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) after a test revealed she had used the anabolic steroid methandienone.
How did the career of Nurcan with other female weightlifters in the world?
As the third child of a low-income family from the town of Hafik in Sivas, Central Anatolia, she was born in Mamak, Ankara.
Mehmet Üstünda, a Turkish national athlete and Taylan’s subsequent coach, first noticed her when she was eleven years old while teaching physical education at the Mamak Secondary School in Ankara.
Has Nurcan won the olympic gold medal and set world record?
She set two world record and five Olympic records in the women’s 48 kg division at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens despite being only 1.52 m (5 foot) tall.
Taylan is the first female gold medalist from Turkey in Olympic history. The olympic gold medal winner had announced her arrival among other female weightlifters in the world with her world record and olympic gold medal.
What was the controversies faced by Nurcan?
She was prohibited for four years commencing on October 26, 2011, by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) after a test revealed she had used the anabolic steroid methandienone.
Taylan didn’t watch the London Games. Taylan was expected to break the world record and make a good challenge for the world championship around the corner..
Her ban was reduced to two years in October 2012, allowing her to resume her duties on October 26, 2013.
Taylan was disqualified (DQ), and from the 2008 Summer Olympics through the 2016 Summer Olympics, all results were void.
5. Christine Girard
Christine Girard, a weightlifter from Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, was born on January 3, 1985. (currently living in Gatineau, Quebec).
She participates in the 63 kg category. When Girard won the gold medal in female weightlifting at the 2012 London Olympics, she became the first Canadian woman to achieve it.
In her weight class, she also won the Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games titles, along with numerous medals in each of those events.
In the Clean and Jerk, she owns the Pan-American Games and the Commonwealth Games records.
Has Christine taken up coaching for upcoming female weightlifters?
Following her relocation to British Columbia, Girard started mentoring other weightlifters as she got ready for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
After she got back from the Olympics, Girard started doing more coaching.
She founded the Kilophile Weightlifting Club, a weightlifting organisation, and provides coaching services to other fitness facilities, including Crossfit Gyms.
The University of Ottawa awarded Girard a Masters of Health Sciences in Occupational Therapy in 2021.
With the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario and the Association Canadianne des Ergothérapeutes, Girard is a licenced occupational therapist who works at Modern OT Occupational Services.
Is Christine involved in Anti doping Advocacy?
Girard is active in both domestic and international anti-doping advocacy activities.
Girard serves on the boards of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, the Anti-Doping Commission of the International Weightlifting Federation, and the International Testing Agency as an Education Ambassador.
4. Kunjarani Devi
Born on 1 March 1966, Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi is the most accomplished weightlifter in India.
She began competing in the National Weightlifting Championships in the 44-kilogram, 46-kilogram, and 48-kilogram weight categories in 1985, winning medals, primarily in the gold. In 1987, she set two brand-new national records in Trivandrum.
When she switched to the 46-kilogram weight category, she won gold in Pune in 1994, but when she attempted to participate in the 48-kilogram class in Manipur four years later, she was only able to earn silver.
She only won a bronze medal at the Asian Games in Beijing in 1990 and a bronze medal Hiroshima in 1994, and she was unable to win any medals at the Bangkok Asian Games in 1998.
What are the awards received by Devi?
She received the Arjuna Award in 1990, and she and Leander Paes earned the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for the period 1996–1997.
She also received the K.K. Birla Sports Award that year. In 2011, the Indian government bestowed upon her the Padma Shri, a civil honour.
She has earned more than fifty international medals. She also took home a gold medal in the 48 kg women’s weightlifting event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
Her total lift of 166 kg, which included 72 kg in the snatch and 94 kg in the clean and jerk, set a new record for the competition.
3. Karnam Malleswari
Indian weightlifter Karnam Malleswari, born on 1 June 1975, is now retired. She is the first Indian woman to take home a medal at the 2000 Olympics.
She was given the Arjuna Award in 1994, and in 1999 she was given the civilian Padma Shri Award and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, which is India’s highest sporting honour.
How was the career of Karnam?
In the 54 kg category, Malleswari won the title in 1994 and 1995, finishing third in 1993 and 1996.
She placed second in the 54 kg division at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Korea in 1995 and took home silver in the World Championships in Istanbul in 1994.
She captured the title in China that year by setting a world record lift of 113 kg. Prior to her Olympic victory, Malleswari had won 29 international medals, including 11 gold medals, and was a two-time world champion in weightlifting.
Malleswari received the Arjuna Award in 1994, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 1999, and the Padma Shri in 1999 in addition to the national and international medals.
2. Jang Mi Ran – Best Female Weightlifter
South Korean weightlifter Jang Mi-ran, born on October 9, 1983, competed in the Olympics. At the moment, she is located in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do, where she represents the Goyang City Government Sports Club.
What are the achievements of Jang?
She captured the +75 kg gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. With 140 kg in the snatch, 186 kg in the clean and jerk, and 326 kg in the combined, she smashed world records.
With a total weight of 302.5 kg, she took home the silver medal in the +75 kg division at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
On September 26, 2007, Jang lifted a total of 319 kg of overalls to win her third consecutive world championship overall title in the women’s +75 kg division (138 kg in the snatch, 181 kg of overalls in the clean and jerk).
Additionally, she broke the world record by one kilogramme, which she had previously set in Wonju, Korea, in May 2006.
Due to bodyweight, Mu Shuangshuang, who also lifted 319 kg in overalls, placed second, although earlier attempts had broken the record.
1. Chen Yanqing – Greatest Olympic Weightlifter of All Time
Chen Yanqing, one of the top female athletes, is absolutely deserving of the title of finest female weightlifter in the world.
She is Chinese by birth, and she now competes in the 58 kg division. She and Liu Chunhong became the first women to successfully defend their Olympic titles in 2008.
Yanqing has won a World Championship, two Asian Games gold medals, and two Olympic gold medals.
In 2006, she also broke the snatch and lift world record for her weight class. Chen is the best there is when it comes to weightlifting.
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