Clarence Cummings Jr. (also known as CJ Cummings) (born 6 June 2000) is an American

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. He is a two-time Youth Pan-American champion, Junior Pan-American champion, two-time Pan-American Champion, two-time IWF Youth World champion, and four-time IWF Junior World champion. CJ has earned 38 international medals, broken four

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Youth and Junior world records, and currently holds 23

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American records.

Career

In 2018 he competed at the

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in the 73 kg category setting 4 Junior World Records. Cummings, at the

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, won the gold medal 2016–2018 in the -69kg weight category. At

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in 2019, Cummings again won gold in a higher weight category, -73kg. He competed in the men's 73 kg event at the

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in Tokyo, Japan.

Major results

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* 2000 births Living people Sportspeople from Beaufort, South Carolina American male weightlifters Pan American Weightlifting Championships medalists Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters for the United States 21st-century American sportsmen {{US-weightlifting-bio-stub