Pensiri Laosirikul ( th, เพ็ญศิริ เหล่าศิริกุล, born January 17, 1984, in Nakhon Si Thammarat) is a Thai weightlifting athlete, and is of Chinese descent. She is 4'9" (144 cm) tall and weighs 47.67 kg. She competed in the

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, in Beijing, winning a bronze medal. At the 2007 World Championships in

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, she took 2nd place in the clean and jerk (112 kg), 3rd place overall (195 kg) and 7th place in the snatch (83 kg). At the Asian Championships, she took 3rd place overall (191 kg) and in the clean and jerk (110 kg), and 4th place for the snatch (81 kg). The competition was held in Tai'an (

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). At the

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in Beijing, she lifted 85 kg in the snatch and 110 kg in the clean and jerk, resulting in a total of 195 kg.

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