Pak Jong-ju (born 14 March 1997) 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 ...

competing in the 69 kg and 62 kg categories until 2018 and 67 kg starting in 2018 after the

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reorganized the categories.

Career

He was the Gold Medalist at the

2014 Summer Youth Olympics The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...

in the 62 kg category. In 2018 he competed in the newly created 67 kg division 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 ...

and finished sixth. He competed at the

2019 IWF World Cup The 2019 IWF World Cup in weightlifting was held in Fuzhou, China from 23 to 27 February 2019. It was also a qualification event for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京 ...

(a qualifying event for the

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) held in

Fuzhou Fuzhou (; , Fuzhounese: Hokchew, ''Hók-ciŭ''), alternately romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute t ...

. He won a gold medal in the total with 318 kg competing in the 67 kg division.

Major results

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pak, Jong-ju Living people North Korean male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics 1997 births World Weightlifting Championships medalists Youth Olympic gold medalists for North Korea 21st-century North Korean people