Clarence Cummings

Clarence Cummings Jr.

Personal information
National team	United States
Born	(2000-06-06) June 6, 2000 (age 25) Beaufort, South Carolina
Years active	2010-current [1]
Height	5 ft 2 in (157 cm)
Weight	72.88 kg (161 lb)
Parents	Clarence Cummings (father) Savasah Cummings (mother)
Website	www.cj-cummings.com
Sport
Country	United States of America
Sport	Weightlifting
Weight class	73 kg
Event	–73 kg
Club	Team Beaufort
Coached by	Rayford Jones [2]
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	9th
World finals	1st
Regional finals	1st
National finals	1st
Personal bests	Snatch: 155 kg (2019) Clean & jerk: 193 kg (2019) Total: 347 kg (2019)
Medal record Representing   United States Pan American Championships 2019 Guatemala City 73 kg 2018 Santo Domingo 69 kg Junior World Championships 2016 Tbilisi –69 kg 2017 Tokyo –69 kg 2018 Tashkent –69 kg 2019 Suva –73 kg

Clarence Cummings Jr. (also known as CJ Cummings) (born 6 June 2000) is an American Olympic weightlifter. He is a two-time Youth Pan-American champion, Junior Pan-American champion, two-time Pan-American Champion, two-time IWF Youth World champion, and four-time IWF Junior World champion. ^{[3] [4]} CJ has earned 38 international medals, broken four International Weightlifting Federation Youth and Junior world records, and currently holds 23 USA Weightlifting American records. ^[5]

Career

In 2018 he competed at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in the 73 kg category setting 4 Junior World Records. ^[6] Cummings, at the IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships, won the gold medal 2016–2018 in the -69kg weight category. At Suva in 2019, Cummings again won gold in a higher weight category, -73kg.

He competed in the men's 73 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. ^[7]

Major results

Year	Venue	Weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total	Rank
			1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
Olympic Games
2020	Tokyo, Japan	73 kg	145	145	150	10	180	190	198	8	325	9
World Championships
2015	Houston, United States	69 kg	123	128	132	31	166	174	174	28	298	30
2017	Anaheim, United States	69 kg	136	139	141	9	177	178	178	—	—	—
2018	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	73 kg	140	145	148	12	181	186	187	6	335	10
2019	Pattaya, Thailand	73 kg	145	150	155	10	183	183	191	10	333	9
Pan American Weightlifting Championships
2018	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	69 kg	137	141	144		170	175	180		324
2019	Guatemala City, Guatemala	73 kg	144	150	153		182	187	191		344
World Junior Championships
2016	Tbilisi, Georgia	69 kg	127	132	137	4	170	175	180		317
2017	Tokyo, Japan	69 kg	134	138	141	4	175	183	186		321
2018	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	69 kg	136	140	145		171	174	176		316
2019	Suva, Fiji	73 kg	145	148	150		180	185	192		337

References

1. Eaves, Ali (August 12, 2016). "Meet the 16-Year-Old Who Can Lift 400 Pounds". menshealth.com. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
2. Ford, Bonnie (November 29, 2017). "How teenager CJ Cummings could help rescue weightlifting". espn.com. ESPN. p. 1. Retrieved July 17, 2019. His coach, Ray Jones,
3. "IWF Athlete Bios". IWF.sport. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
4. "18-Year-Old CJ Cummings Sets 15 Records On Remarkable Day At Pan American Weightlifting Championships". Team USA. Archived from the original on April 25, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
5. "USA Weightlifting American Records". USA Weightlifting. Archived from the original on November 15, 2016. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
6. "China won Gold - once again". IWF.net. November 4, 2018. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
7. OlympicTalk (June 19, 2021). "U.S. Olympic team roster: Athletes qualified for Tokyo Games". OlympicTalk | NBC Sports. Retrieved June 19, 2021.

External links

• Clarence Cummings at the International Weightlifting Results Project
• Clarence Cummings at Olympedia