Take for example the 50-kilo Chu Nan-mei. In the first world championships of women's weightlifting, held in the US in 1987, she could only snatch 52.5 kilos, and clean and jerk 62.5. That was well behind what mainland Chinese lifter Huang Xiaoyu could do then--75 and 95 kilograms, respectively, for the two events.
以五十公斤的朱南美為例，一九八七年在美國舉行的第一屆世界女子舉重錦標賽中，朱南美只能舉起抓舉五十二．五公斤、挺舉六十二．五公斤，和當時的大陸金牌選手黃曉瑜抓舉七十五公斤、挺舉九十五公斤，還有明顯的差距。