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<p>Beaufort’s CJ Cummings put on another dominant performance in sweeping the 73kg weight class at the USA Weightlifting National Junior Championships on Saturday in Chicago. </p>
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<p>Cummings hit the new junior world record standard in the snatch with a lift of 149kg, bettering his record by one kilogram, and broke his own junior world records in the clean and jerk (189kg) and total (338kg).&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Cummings, 18, continues to dominate the junior circuit as he prepares for the 2020 Olympic Games. The runners-up in each division were a distant second — 128kg in the snatch, 157kg in the clean, and 284kg total. </p>
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<p>Cummings now owns 29 American records and five world records.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Next up on Cummings’ schedule is the IWF Junior World Championships from June 1-8 in Fiji.</p>
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