{"id":28253,"date":"2024-12-11T19:27:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T19:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/olivia-reeves-becomes-first-us-lifter-to-pair-world-title-with-olympic-gold-in-66-years\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T19:27:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T19:27:47","slug":"olivia-reeves-becomes-first-us-lifter-to-pair-world-title-with-olympic-gold-in-66-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/olivia-reeves-becomes-first-us-lifter-to-pair-world-title-with-olympic-gold-in-66-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Reeves becomes first US lifter to pair world title with Olympic gold in 66 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Reeves, 21, captures world title in 71kg division<\/li>\n<li>Chattanooga native won Olympic gold this summer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Olivia Reeves won her first world weightlifting title on Wednesday, four months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/article\/2024\/aug\/09\/olivia-reeves-wins-first-us-olympic-gold-in-weightlifting-in-24-years\">winning<\/a> the United States\u2019 first Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in 24 years.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old from Chattanooga, who started lifting weights at the CrossFit gym her mother owned when she was in fourth grade, won the 71kg division at world championships in Manama, Bahrain, on Wednesday. She totaled 267kg (588lb) between the snatch and the clean and jerk, edging Jong Chun-Hui of North Korea (262kg) and Yang Qiuxia of China (261lb).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/dec\/11\/olivia-reeves-world-championships-weightlifting-double\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reeves, 21, captures world title in 71kg division Chattanooga native won Olympic gold this summer Olivia Reeves won her first world weightlifting title on Wednesday, four months after winning the United States\u2019 first Olympic gold medal in weightlifting in 24 years. The 21-year-old from Chattanooga, who started lifting weights at the CrossFit gym her mother &#8230; <a title=\"Olivia Reeves becomes first US lifter to pair world title with Olympic gold in 66 years\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/olivia-reeves-becomes-first-us-lifter-to-pair-world-title-with-olympic-gold-in-66-years\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Olivia Reeves becomes first US lifter to pair world title with Olympic gold in 66 years\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}