Iran Press/ Iran News: Yekta Jamali, 87kg weight class and a member of the Iranian women's national weightlifting team, won the first-ever medal in Iranian women's weightlifting history on Sunday in the competition.
She lifted 92kg in snatch and 116kg in clean and jerk and won the bronze medal with a total of 208.
Uzbekistan weightlifter Tursunoy Jabborova made 111-113-244 to win the gold medal and American participant Avery Owens took the silver medal with 93-118-211.
The 2021 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championship is being held in Tashkent from May 23-31.
The event has brought 244 weightlifters together in Uzbekistan.
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