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In this Chinese name, the family name is Kuo.

Kuo Hsing-chun (Chinese: 郭婞淳; pinyin: Guō Xìngchún; Amis name: Tana; born 26 November 1993) is a Taiwanese Amis weightlifter, Olympic gold medalist, five time world champion, two time Universiade champion, Asian Games champion, and five time Asian champion,[1] competing in the 58 kg division until 2018 and 59 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[2] She has set 11 senior world records in her career.

Kuo Hsing-chun (Tana)
Personal information
National teamTaiwan
Born (1993-11-26) 26 November 1993 (age 31)
Yilan, Taiwan
Years active2011–
Height1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight58.55 kg (129 lb)
Sport
CountryTaiwan
SportWeightlifting
Event(s)58 kg (2011–2018), 59 kg (2018–)
ClubFu Jen Catholic University
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Snatch: 110 kg (2021)
  • Clean and jerk: 142 kg (2017)
  • Total: 249 kg (2017)
Medal record
Women's Weightlifting
Representing  Chinese Taipei
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo –59 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro –58 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris –59 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Wrocław –58 kg
Gold medal – first place 2017 Anaheim –58 kg
Gold medal – first place 2018 Ashgabat –59 kg
Gold medal – first place 2019 Pattaya –59 kg
Gold medal – first place 2021 Tashkent –59 kg
Silver medal – second place 2022 Bogotá –59 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Houston –58 kg
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta-Palembang –58 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Hangzhou –59 kg
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2013 Kazan –58 kg
Gold medal – first place 2017 Taipei 58 kg
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Astana –58 kg
Gold medal – first place 2016 Tashkent –58 kg
Gold medal – first place 2017 Ashgabat –58 kg
Gold medal – first place 2019 Ningbo –59 kg
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tashkent –59 kg
Silver medal – second place 2012 Pyeongtaek –58 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Jinju –59 kg
Youth Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2010 Singapore –53 kg

Early life

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Kuo Hsing-chun was born in Yilan in 1993. She never knew her biological father, and was raised primarily by her grandmother, as her mother was frequently working. Kuo's given name, Hsing-chun, alludes to the difficult circumstances of her birth, as it sounds similar to hsing tsun (倖存), which means to have survived by luck or accident in Mandarin. When Kuo was born, her umbilical cord wound itself around her neck. In addition, her mother was in labor for over ten hours. The family moved repeatedly, living with several different relatives. Kuo began lifting weights in junior high school, and played a number of sports, including basketball, track and field, and soccer. She chose to specialize in weightlifting in high school.[3][4]

Career

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Olympics

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In 2012, she competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 58 kg category and placed sixth overall.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 58 kg category. In the snatch portion of the competition, she completed her first lift of 102 kg, but was unable to complete her last two lifts of 105 kg. Going into the clean and jerk portion of the competition, she was in third place, as she was 8 kg behind Sukanya Srisurat and tied in weight with Pimsiri Sirikaew (Pimsiri Sirikaew weighed .46 kg less). In the clean and jerk portion, she completed a 129 kg lift which secured her at least a bronze medal finish. For her final lift, she attempted an Olympic record lift of 139 kg, which would put her in first place, but was unable to lift it.[5] She won a bronze medal[6][7] with a total of 231 kg.[8]

In 2021, she won a gold medal and broke three Olympic records in the women's 59 kg weightlifting competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[9][10][11] She won the bronze medal in the women's 59 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[12]

World Championships

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In 2013, she competed at the 2013 World Weightlifting Championships in the 58 kg category. After the snatch portion of the competition she was in second place behind Deng Wei, they both had lifted 108 kg, but Deng Wei was 0.46 kg lighter. In the clean and jerk portion of the competition, she lifted 133 kg in her first attempt, after Deng Wei was unable to complete any of her clean and jerks, she had the gold medal secured.[13] Her total of 241 kg was a full 13 kg over the silver medalist Alexandra Escobar.

The 2015 World Weightlifting Championships was her first competition back from a disappointing year (due to injury), and she competed in the 58 kg category. After the snatch portion of the competition, she was in fourth place with 103 kg, the leader Boyanka Kostova set a world record in the snatch with 112 kg. In the clean and jerk portion, she lifted 133 kg with her final lift securing a bronze medal in the clean and jerk and in the total.[14]

 
Kuo Hsing-chun (right) accepting souvenirs from President Tsai Ing-wen in August 2017

Coming into the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships, she was expected to put up a solid performance after her record-setting performance at the 2017 Summer Universiade. She competed in the 58 kg category, against the reigning Olympic Champion Sukanya Srisurat and it was expected to be a close competition. After the snatch portion, Sukanya Srisurat was in the gold medal position with 105 kg, Kuo also lifted the same, but Srisurat had lifted the weight first. In the clean and jerk portion, Sukanya Srisurat had completed all of her attempts before Kuo had attempted any of her lifts. She made her first lift of 126 kg, securing the gold medal. She added onto that total, lifting 135 kg in the clean and jerk, finishing with 240 kg, a full 15 kg more than reigning Olympic Champion, and silver medalist Srisurat.[15]

In 2018, the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories, and Kuo competed at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in the new 59 kg category. In the snatch portion, she lifted a new world record of 105 kg, and led going into the clean and jerk portion by 2 kg over the silver medalist Hoàng Thị Duyên and bronze medallist Rebeka Koha. During the clean and jerk portion, she successfully lifted 128 kg in her first attempt, setting a new world record in the total. With her last successful lift of 132 kg she set a new world record in the clean and jerk and total.[16] Chen Guiming, the eventual silver medalist attempted a world record lift of 140 kg, which would have given her the lead, but she was unable to lift it. As a result, Kuo won the gold medal in the total. She set four senior world records in the competition and won her third World Championships.[17]

Kuo competed in the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships, where she broke two of her own world records in the women's 59 kg category, with 140 kg in the clean and jerk, and 246 kg in the combined lift.[18]

In 2021, she won the gold medal in the women's 59 kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[19][20] She won the silver medal in the women's 59 kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[21][22] In 2023, she won the silver medal in the women's 59 kg Clean & Jerk event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[23]

Asian Games

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Before the 2014 Asian Games, she suffered an injury to her leg,[24] which left her confined to a wheelchair for a month, as a result of the injury she donated an ambulance to Taitung hospital.[25][26] Injury notwithstanding, she went on to place fourth at the 2014 Asian Games in the 58 kg category.

She was the flag bearer for Taiwan at the 2018 Asian Games[27] where she competed in the 58 kg category. After the snatch portion of the competition she led Sukanya Srisurat by 2 kg with 105 kg. In the clean and jerk portion of the competition she secured the gold medal with her first lift of 125 kg,[28] her next attempt was called at 133 kg, but there was an error loading the bar and only 130.5 kg was put on,[29] she made the lift with a lopsided bar (one side weighed 2.5 kg more than the other) and received credit for 130 kg. Her last attempt in the clean and jerk was for a world record weight of 143 kg but she was unable to make the lift.

Universiade

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Kuo won gold at the 2017 Summer Universiade and set a world record of 142 kg for the clean and jerk in her final lift.[30][31] Following her performance at the Universiade, Kuo was awarded the Order of Brilliant Star,[32] and chose to donate her winnings, totaling NT$1.9 million ($68022.34), back to her community.[33]

Asian Weightlifting Championships

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Kuo competed at the 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships in the 59 kg category. After her second successful lift of 103 kg, she had secured a gold medal in the snatch, and attempted a world record lift of 106 kg which she successfully completed. In the clean and jerk portion, she had a gold medal in the total virtually guaranteed with her second lift of 134 kg, this gave her a new world record total of 240 kg. Her last attempt of 137 kg broke the clean and jerk world record, and the total world record she had just set. Chen Guiming attempted a 138 kg clean and jerk, but was unable to complete the lift which gave Chen a silver medal in the total, a full 10 kg behind gold medalist Kuo.[34]

Major results

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Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean and jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
2012 London, Great Britain 58 kg 99 101 102 — 129 133 133 — 228 6
2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 58 kg 102 105 105 — 129 129 139 — 231  
2021 Tokyo, Japan 59 kg 100 103 103 OR — 125 133 OR 141 — 236 OR  
2024 Paris, France 59 kg 103 105 105 — 130 130 137 — 235  
World Championships
2011 Paris, France 58 kg 90 94 96 11 118 122 122 8 212 10
2013 Wrocław, Poland 58 kg 103 106 108   133 136 136   241  
2014 Almaty, Kazakhstan 58 kg 98 98 100 6 125 129 131 5 223 5
2015 Houston, United States 58 kg 104 107 107 4 133 133 133   237  
2017 Anaheim, United States 58 kg 99 102 105   126 131 135   240  
2018 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 59 kg 100 103 105 WR   128 132 132 WR   237 WR  
2019 Pattaya, Thailand 59 kg 103 106 106   133 137 140 CWR   246 WR  
2021 Tashkent, Uzbekistan 59 kg 97 100 102   125 128 130   230  
2022 Bogotá, Colombia 59 kg 100 102 102 4 126 129 130   232  
2023 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 59 kg 95 98 101 4 120 125 130   231 4
IWF World Cup
2019 Tianjin, China 64 kg 100 103 105   130 135 141   246  
2024 Phuket, Thailand 59 kg 98 100 102 10 125 130 — 4 230 5
Asian Games
2014 Incheon, South Korea 58 kg 95 95 98 — 120 124 128 — 219 4
2018 Jakarta, Indonesia 58 kg 100 103 105 — 125 130 143 — 235  
2023 Hangzhou, China 59 kg 97 99 101 — 122 126 128 — 227  
Summer Universiade
2013 Kazan, Russia 58 kg 100 102 104 — 126 130 134 — 238  
2017 New Taipei, Taiwan 58 kg 102 105 107 — 133 136 142 WR — 249  
Asian Championships
2012 Pyeongtaek, South Korea 58 kg 94 98 98   123 128 130   228  
2013 Astana, Kazakhstan 58 kg 102 105 105   131 134 134   236  
2016 Tashkent, Uzbekistan 58 kg 97 100 103   128 131 135   238  
2017 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 58 kg 98 101 104   128 133 137   241  
2019 Ningbo, China 59 kg 100 103 106 WR   130 134 137 WR   243 WR  
2021 Tashkent, Uzbekistan 59 kg 105 107 110 WR   133 133 137   247 WR  
2023 Jinju, South Korea 59 kg 98 100 102 3 128 132 135   230  
Youth Olympic Games
2010 Singapore, Singapore 53 kg 72 75 77 — 90 95 97 — 174  
  • CWR: Current world record
  • WR: World record

See also

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References

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