World weightlifting champion hospitalized after car accident

GOYANG, South Korea, Jan. 10 (Yonhap) -- Four-time world weightlifting champion
Jang Mi-ran of South Korea has been hospitalized after sustaining a slight injury
in a car accident on Saturday, police said Sunday.

Jang's Volkswagen sedan was hit by a sports utility vehicle from behind at 8 p.m.
on a road in front of a shopping mall in Goyang, on the northern outskirts of
Seoul, police said, adding she was sent to a nearby hospital for a medical
check-up.
The SUV whose driver was not identified apparently skidded on a snow-covered road
and crashed into Jang's car, they said.
The 26-year-old Beijing Olympic gold medalist won her fourth straight world
championship title with a new world record at the 2009 World Weightlifting
Championships held in Goyang in November.
brk@yna.co.kr
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