Cai Jun (

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: 蔡军; born 14 March 1971) is a

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

and the first female world champion in the history of the sport. In 1987 while only sixteen years of age, she won the first category at the inaugural women's

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, USA.

References

* Gottfried Schödl
World Championships Seniors 1997–2007 and Statistics
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