49 kg clean & jerk, women

What to remember

A 121 kg clean and jerk in the 49 kg class: that is what Ri Song-gum lifted on September 23, 2026, at the Asian Games in Nagoya. The North Korean lifter has represented her country at international events.

Those Games were hers: she set three world records there and won gold. A 49 kg specialist, she has also competed at several World Championships.

Each class keeps three records: snatch, clean and jerk, and the total of both. Those marks are young: every time the International Weightlifting Federation redrew its classes, the old records were cancelled. That happened in 1993 and then 1998, again in 2018, and in back-to-back years, 2025 and 2026.