Cai Jun

{{Short description|Chinese weightlifter (born 1971)}}

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{{MedalSport| Women's weightlifting}}

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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|1987 Daytona Beach|–44 kg}}

{{MedalGold|1990 Sarajevo|–48 kg}}

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Cai Jun (Chinese: 蔡军; born 14 March 1971) is a Chinese weightlifter and the first female world champion in the history of the sport. In 1987 while only sixteen years of age, she won the first category at the inaugural women's World Championships in Daytona Beach, USA.

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  • Gottfried Schödl: [http://www.iwf.net/doc/statistics/WORLD_CHAMP_SENIOR_001_146.PDF World Championships Seniors 1997–2007 and Statistics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527172617/http://www.iwf.net/doc/statistics/WORLD_CHAMP_SENIOR_001_146.PDF |date=2011-05-27 }}, p. 94

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Category:1971 births

Category:Chinese female weightlifters

Category:Living people

Category:World Weightlifting Championships medalists

Category:20th-century Chinese women

Category:21st-century Chinese women

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