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Olha Korobka, a 22 years old Ukrainian weightlifter, will be the heaviest woman to ever participate in the modern Olympics, clocking in at about 364lbs [165kg] at 5ft 11” tall.

She started lifting when she was 12 years old. Four years later, at age 16 the Ukrainian super-heavyweight made her first world championship squad, finishing eighth at the 2002 Worlds. Korobka finished 7th at the 2004 Athens Olympics, and as in 2008, she was the heaviest woman to compete at the Olympics in more than a century at 345lbs [156lbs] at 18 years old.

A video [very poor quality] of the 2007 Europeans where Olha Korobka permformed a 133kg [292lbs] snatch, setting a new European record.

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