🔻Reihaneh Karimi wins bronze medal, bringing first weightlifting medal in the Asian Games for Iranian women.

She today, in the women’s 77 kg weightlifting category at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, won the bronze medal at the 2026 Asian Games with a total of 243 kg—107 kg in the snatch, 136 kg in the clean and jerk.

According to reports, she lifted 26 kg more than her personal best in order to stand on the third-place podium in Asia.

Iranian women weightlifters had previously won various medals and titles at the Asian Weightlifting Championships, but this is the first medal at the Asian Games.

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