WEIGHTLIFTING – Bahrain’s Ingrid Vanesa Segura Grueso bagged three medals last night in the women’s 69kg category at the 2025 IWF World Championships, currently taking place in Forde, Norway.
Grueso captured a silver medal for clean and jerk while also taking two bronze medals for both snatch and total.
The 19-year-old was one of 29 lifters in her weight class as she made her debut in the worlds flying the kingdom’s flag.
Grueso opened her medal bid with a best lift of 107kg in her third attempt of the snatch portion. Her previous two lifts were 102kg and 105kg.
Kuk Hyang Song of North Korea claimed snatch gold, posting a massive lift of 120kg. Julieth Alejandra Rodriguez Quintero of Colombia won the silver medal at 110kg.
In the clean and jerk, Grueso secured her silver medal with a successful 134kg lift, which came on her second attempt.
She posted 130kg in her first but was not able to complete a 137kg lift to close out – an attempt that would have earned Grueso a similar mark as the current junior world record for clean and jerk.
Song was once again the gold-medallist, lifting 150kg in her second clean and jerk effort. Wen-Huei Chen of Chinese Taipei took the bronze medal with a 132kg best lift.
Grueso’s performances last night were enough to earn her a spot on the podium for totals.
She registered an overall mark of 241kg, similar to that of silver-medallist Quintero. Song was the runaway winner with a 270kg total – 29kg more than her closest challengers.
Following their competition, the women’s 69kg podium ceremony took place, where Grueso was joined by Bahrain Weightlifting Federation president Eshaq Ebrahim Eshaq.
Grueso is one of two Bahrainis competing at this year’s IWF World Championships, which has been organised and is being run by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).
The other is Paris 2024 Olympics bronze-medallist Gor Minasyan, who will be going for gold in the men’s over-110kg category on Saturday.
Minasyan will be one of 10 lifters in their division’s A group. They get their competition underway at 5pm, Bahrain time.
Minasyan will be gunning for his third worlds medal for Bahrain, having claimed silver in 2022 and bronze in 2023, both in the over-109kg category.
The IWF World Championships is the sport’s biggest annual event. It was hosted by Bahrain last year.
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