69 kg snatch, women

What to remember

In 2018, at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Song Kuk-hyang failed to make a single snatch in the girls' 63 kg. On September 27, 2026, at the Asian Games in Nagoya, it was precisely in the snatch that the North Korean set a world record: 121 kg in the 69 kg class.

In between she had piled up titles: gold at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, the 71 kg title at the 2024 Asian Championships in Tashkent with a 154 kg world record in the clean and jerk, and the 76 kg world title in 2024 in Bahrain. Her career has taken her through several weight classes.

Each new set of weight classes wipes out the records of the old one: the International Weightlifting Federation adopted one in 1993, others in 1998 and 2018, and again in 2025 as well as 2026. Every class keeps three marks: snatch, clean and jerk, and total.