Review Women's 64kg

· Deng Wei (CHN) won her ninth, 10th and 11th world title, becoming the seventh Chinese woman with at least 11 weightlifting gold medals at the world championships. · has now won 12 world titles in , surpassing (9) for most at these world championships. · Rim Un Sim (PRK) took bronze (Clean & Jerk) and silver (Total) and won DPR Korea's first women's medals at these championships. · Rattanawan Wamalun (THA) claimed silver (Clean & Jerk) and bronze (Total) after winning a silver medal last year. · These were Thailand's 13th and 14th medal in a women's event at the 2018 world championships. Only in 2005 it won more in women's events, 15. · Loredana-Elena Toma (ROU) claimed silver in the Snatch, her fourth medal at the world championships, after winning three world titles last year. · Karina Goricheva (KAZ) claimed bronze in the Snatch. This was her third world championships medal, all in the Snatch (gold 2014 63kg, bronze 2015 63kg). · She became the third lifter representing to win three world championships medals in the Snatch, after Vladimir Sedov (KAZ, 4 medals) and Svetlana Podobedova (KAZ, 4). · Goricheva became the first woman to win three medals in Snatch events, without winning a world championships medal in another event.

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