Nguyễn Thị Thiết (born October 27, 1984) is a Vietnamese weightlifter. She won a total of four medals (one gold and three silver) for the 63 kg class at the Southeast Asian Games (

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in Manila, Philippines,

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in Bangkok, Thailand, and

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in Vientiane, Laos). Nguyen made her official debut for the

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in Athens, where she competed for the women's middleweight class (63 kg). She finished only in sixth place by ten kilograms short of her record from South Korea's Kim Soo-Kyung, with a total of 205.0 kilograms (95 in the snatch, and 110 in the clean and jerk). At the

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in Beijing, Nguyen qualified for the second time in the women's 63 kg class, after finishing second from the

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. Nguyen placed fifth in this event, as she successfully lifted 100 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 125 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead

clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...

, for a total of 225 kg.

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
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