Nataliya Skakun
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Nataliya Anatoliïvna Skakun (Template:Langx; born August 3, 1981, in Altai Kray) is a Ukrainian weightlifter.
Career
She competed in the women's 63 kg weight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal, lifting 242.5 kg in total. During clean & jerk she lifted 135.0 kg, which was a new Olympic record. She also for a time held the world record, 138.0 kg, set when she became world champion in 2003.
References
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Categories:
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Ukrainian female weightlifters
- Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic weightlifters for Ukraine
- Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Ukrainian sportswomen
- 21st-century Ukrainian sportswomen