Powerful Muscular Woman - Chen Xiexia, Chinese weightlifter

Chen Xiexia (born January 8, 1983 in Panyu, Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a Chinese weightlifter. She won three golds at the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships. and the first gold medal for China in the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 48 kg class, setting an Olympic Record by lifting a total of 212 kg.

She also won 3 golds at the 2007 Asian Championships, with a world record of 120 kg in clean and jerk. At the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gymnasium on Day 1 of the Olympic Games, 152cm Xiexia, 25, yelled "jia you!" (come on!), and succeeded on all six attempts (snatch: 95 kg; clean and jerk: 117kg).

Powerful Muscular Woman - Nurcan Taylan, Turkish weightlifter

Nurcan Taylan (born October 29, 1983 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish Olympic, world and European champion in weightlifting. She holds six European and one world record (and tied two more world records).

She was born in Mamak, Ankara as the third child of a poor family originating from the town of Hafik in Sivas, Central Anatolia. Taylan was discovered at age of eleven by the Turkish national athlete and her later coach Mehmet Üstündağ as he was her teacher in physical education at the Mamak Secondary School in Ankara.

Only 1.52 m (5 ft) tall, she lifted two World and five Olympic records in the women’s 48 kg category at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Nurcan Taylan is Turkey's first ever female Olympic gold medalist.

She is student of physical education and sports and member of the Yenimahalle Club in Ankara.