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Aug 08, 2016

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Yoon Jin-hee of South Korea competes during the women's 53kg category of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Weightlifting events at the Riocentro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 6. (Yonhap News)

Yoon Jin-hee of South Korea competes during the women's 53kg category of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Weightlifting events at the Riocentro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 6. (Yonhap News)





RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean weightlifter Yoon Jin-hee won bronze in the women's 53kg at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Sunday.

Yoon lifted 88kg in snatch and 111kg in clean and jerk for a total of 199kg, finishing 1kg behind Hidilyn Diaz of the Philippines for the bronze.

Hsu Shu-Ching of Chinese Taipei won the gold with 212kg total.

This was Yoon's second career Olympic medal, after silver in 53kg at the 2008 Beijing Games.

She came out of retirement in 2014 to make the national team for Rio.

Her husband, Won Jeong-sik, will be competing in the men's 69kg later in the Olympics.

Yonhap News