69 kg total, women

What to remember

Song Kuk-hyang posted a total of 273 kg in the 69 kg class on 27 September 2026 at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, combining the snatch and the clean and jerk.

Each new set of classes adopted by the International Weightlifting Federation (in 1993, 1998 and 2018, then in 2025 and 2026) nullified earlier records, and the North Korean lifter has won titles in several classes. She won the women's 76 kg event at the 2024 World Championships in Bahrain, and gold in her event at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.

Also in 2024, at the Asian Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she won the 71 kg class and set a world record of 154 kg in the clean and jerk. She had also competed at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires.