PHNOM PENH—Elreen Ando shattered all existing records in her new weight class on the way to victory on Sunday, the country's first gold medal in women's weightlifting at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games. The 24-year-old pride of Cebu City slowly raised the massive 98-kilogram metal plates overhead and kept a firm grip before letting go, eclipsing the 96kg standard established by Vietnam's Hoang Thi Duyen during the Hanoi Games last year. Ando duplicated the record-breaker later on in the clean and jerk with a 118kg lift, again surpassing Hoang's 2021 standard in the event at 115.

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