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. CJ has earned 38 international medals, broken four International Weightlifting Federation Youth and Junior world records, and currently holds 23 USA Weightlifting American records.
In 2018 he competed at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in the 73 kg category setting 4 Junior World Records. Cummings, at the IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships, won the gold medal 2016âÂÂ2018 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.