country event birth_place weight height nationality pb sport birth_date article_title name
china -69 & nbsp ; kg nanping , fujian , china 72 kg lb on 1.63 m ftin on chinese '' 2004 -rrb- '' ` clean & jerk '' ' : ` 197.5 kg -lrb- 2003 -rrb- '' ` total '' ' snatch : 352.5 kg -lrb- 2003 -rrb- '' ' : 160 kg -lrb- weightlifting 17 september 1974 zhang guozheng
 zhang guozheng
zhang guozheng

zhang guozheng -lrb- ; born september 14 , 1974 in shunchang , nanping , fujian -rrb- is a chinese weightlifter .
zhang is a world champion , olympic champion and world record holder .
he began his current career of weightlifting when he started nanping sport school in march 1983 .
he then studied at the beijing sports university from 1988 to 1998 .
during college , guozheng was in the yunnan provincial team .
by 1999 , he was on the national team for china .
his impressive feats include a 197.5 kg clean and jerk at 69 kg body weight .
he uses the squat-jerk style , where one carries the weight into the overhead squat position prior to recovery .
