American weightlifter (born 2000)
Clarence Cummings Jr.
National team United States Born (2000-06-06 ) June 6, 2000 (age 24) Beaufort, South Carolina Years active 2010-current[ 1] Height 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) Weight 72.88 kg (161 lb) Parents Clarence Cummings (father) Savasah Cummings (mother) Website www Country Sport Weightlifting Weight class 73 kg Event –73 kg Club Team Beaufort Coached by Rayford Jones[ 2] Olympic finals 9th World finals 1st Regional finals 1st National finals 1st Personal bests Snatch: 155 kg (2019) Clean & jerk: 193 kg (2019) Total: 347 kg (2019)
Clarence Cummings Jr. (also known as CJ Cummings ) (born 6 June 2000) is an American Olympic weightlifter . He is a two-time Youth Pan-American champion, Junior Pan-American champion, two-time Pan-American Champion, two-time IWF Youth World champion, and four-time IWF Junior World champion.[ 4] [ 5] International Weightlifting Federation Youth and Junior world records, and currently holds 23 USA Weightlifting American records. [ 6]
Career
In 2018 he competed at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in the 73 kg category setting 4 Junior World Records .[ 7] IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships , won the gold medal 2016–2018 in the -69kg weight category. At Suva in 2019, Cummings again won gold in a higher weight category, -73kg.
He competed in the men's 73 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[ 8]
Major results
Year
Venue
Weight
Snatch (kg)
Clean & Jerk (kg)
Total
Rank
1
2
3
Rank
1
2
3
Rank
Olympic Games
2020
Tokyo , Japan
73 kg
145
145
150
10
180
190
198
8
325
9
World Championships
2015 Houston , United States 69 kg 123
128
132 31
166 174 174 28
298 30
2017 Anaheim , United States 69 kg 136
139
141 9
177 178 178 —
—
—
2018 Ashgabat , Turkmenistan 73 kg 140
145
148 12
181
186 187 6
335 10
2019
73 kg
145
150
155
10
183
183
191
10
333
9
Pan American Weightlifting Championships
2018 Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic 69 kg
137
141
144 170
175
180 324
2019 Guatemala City , Guatemala 73 kg
144
150
153 182
187
191 344
World Junior Championships
2016
Tbilisi , Georgia 69 kg
127
132
137 4
170
175
180 317
2017 Tokyo , Japan 69 kg
134
138 141 4
175
183 186 321
2018 Tashkent , Uzbekistan 69 kg
136
140 145 171
174
176 316
2019 Suva , Fiji 73 kg
145 148 150 180
185 192 337
References
^ [Meet the 16-Year-Old Who Can Lift 400 Pounds "How teenager CJ Cummings could help rescue weightlifting"]. menshealth.com . Retrieved February 10, 2023 . ^ Ford, Bonnie (November 29, 2017). "How teenager CJ Cummings could help rescue weightlifting" . espn.com . ESPN. p. 1. Retrieved July 17, 2019 . His coach, Ray Jones, ^ "Athlete Biography" . IWF.net . Retrieved April 25, 2019 .^ "IWF Athlete Bios" . IWF.sport . Retrieved June 16, 2023 .^ "18-Year-Old CJ Cummings Sets 15 Records On Remarkable Day At Pan American Weightlifting Championships" . Team USA . Archived from the original on April 25, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .^ . USA Weightlifting https://web.archive.org/web/20161115105827/http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Weightlifting/Resources/American-Records/ . Archived from the original on November 15, 2016. Retrieved June 16, 2023 . ^ "China won Gold - once again" . IWF.net . November 4, 2018. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .^ OlympicTalk (June 19, 2021). "U.S. Olympic team roster: Athletes qualified for Tokyo Games" . OlympicTalk | NBC Sports . Retrieved June 19, 2021 .
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