Sa Jae-Hyouk (

Hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The le ...

: 사재혁,

Hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, ...

: 史載赫; ; born January 29, 1985, in Hongcheon, Gangwon-do,

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...

) is a South 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 lif ...

. He is 165 cm tall. In 2005, Sa won two gold medals in the clean and jerk and total at the 1st Junior World Weightlifting Championships in

Busan Busan (), officially known as is South Korea's most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, ...

. At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships he ranked 5th in the 77 kg category, with a total of 353 kg. In 2008, he won a gold medal in the 77 kg class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

. At the

2009 World Weightlifting Championships The World Weightlifting Championships 2009 was held in Goyang, South Korea. The event took place from November 20 to November 29, 2009. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking by all medals: Big (T ...

he ranked 4th in the 77 kg category, with a total of 365 kg. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he dislocated his elbow while attempting 162 kg in his second snatch attempt and was forced to withdraw from the competition.

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Living people South Korean male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for South Korea Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for South Korea 1985 births World Weightlifting Championships medalists Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2014 Asian Games Jae-hyouk Asian Games competitors for South Korea South Korean Buddhists Sportspeople from Gangwon Province, South Korea 20th-century South Korean people 21st-century South Korean people {{SouthKorea-weightlifting-bio-stub