North Korea’s Om Yun Chol beat his own world record in the

North Korea’s Om Yun Chol beat his own world record in the men’s 56-kilogram clean and jerk by 1 kilogram on Saturday to grab weightlifting gold on the first day of competition at the Asian Games.

Isolated North Korea has 150 athletes competing in 14 sports at the games in the South Korean city of Incheon, where they are being cheered by local fans despite the bitter hostility between their governments dating from the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.

Margarita Yelisseyeva of Kazakhstan won the other weightlifting gold in the women’s 48-kilogram category with a combined weight of 194 kilograms.

Source AP