Kim Un-ju (born 11 November 1989) is a North Korean

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 former world record holder competing in the 75 kg category until 2018 and 87 kg starting in 2018 after the

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reorganized the categories.

Career

In 2014 she was sanctioned for the use of

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and was banned from competition until 2016, thus disqualifying her results from the

2014 World Weightlifting Championships The 2014 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Baluan Sholak Sports Palace, Almaty, Kazakhstan. The event took place from November 8 to 16, 2014. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking ...

. Kim competed at the

2018 World Weightlifting Championships The 2018 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 1 to 10 November 2018. The logo of IWF World Championships 2018 has consisted of abstract illustration of weightlifting athlete designed by Ashgabat based design fi ...

winning a silver medal in the total.

Major results

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Un-ju 1989 births Living people World Weightlifting Championships medalists North Korean female weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2010 Asian Games Weightlifters at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in weightlifting World record holders in Olympic weightlifting Asian Games gold medalists for North Korea Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games