- Olha Korobka
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Medal record 
Olha KorobkaWomen's Weightlifting Competitor for 
UkraineOlympic Games Silver 2008 Beijing +75 kg World Championships Bronze 2003 Vancouver +75 kg Bronze 2006 Santo Domingo +75 kg Bronze 2007 Chiang Mai +75 kg Bronze 2011 Paris +75 kg European Championships Gold 2006 Władysławowo +75 kg Gold 2007 Strasbourg +75 kg Gold 2008 Lignano Sabbiadoro +75 kg Silver 2010 Minsk +75 kg Olha Korobka (born December 7, 1985 Bobrovytsia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. is a female Ukrainian weightlifter who was European record holder in the snatch with 133 kg, and in the clean and jerk with 164 kg.
She ranked 7th in the women's over 75 kg category at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[1]
On April 18, 2008, Korobka won her third straight European championship overall title in the women's over 75 kg category by lifting 277 kg in total (127 kg in the snatch, 150 kg in the clean and jerk).
At the 2008 Summer Olympics she won the silver medal in the +75 kg category, with a total of 277 kg. At a height of 1.81m (5' 11") and a weight of 167 kg (368 lbs), she was the heaviest female competitor at the Games.[2]
Ms. Korobka won silver medal as superweight in the 2010 European Championship, at an amazing bodyweight of 170 kg. (373 lb.). That is the heaviest in the world of a female participant in an Olympic sport. By way of comparison, she was 1.5 to 2.0 times as heavy as any of the other superweights (and up to 3.8 times as heavy as those in the various other weight-classes). In terms of relative strength, she successfully lifted 47 kg. (103.4 lb.) less than her bodyweight in Snatch, and 20 kg. (44 lb.) less in C&J.
Notes and references
- ^ "KOROBKA Olha". International Weightlifting Federation. http://www.iwf.net/results/results_athlete_e.php?compid=434.
- ^ "Athlete Bio:Olha Korobka". ESPN. http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/fanguide/athlete?id=15887.
External links
- Athlete Biography at beijing2008
Categories:- 1985 births
- Living people
- Ukrainian weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters of Ukraine
- Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Ukraine
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
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