Li Wenwen
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Nationality | Chinese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 5 March 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 150 kg (331 lb)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | +87 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Li Wenwen (Chinese: 李雯雯, Pinyin: Lǐ Wén-Wén; born 5 March 2000) is a Chinese weightlifter, Olympic Champion, World Champion, and Asian champion competing in the women's +87 kg division.[4]
Career[]
In 2019 she competed at the IWF World Cup[5] in Fuzhou, winning silver medals and setting junior world records in the snatch, clean & jerk and total in the +87 kg category.[6] Later in 2019 she competed at the 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships in the +87 kg category. In the snatch portion she set a world record with a lift of 147 kg, and won gold medals in all lifts.
She competed at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships in the +87 kg division against teammate Meng Suping.[7] She had a perfect 6 for 6 day and won gold medals in all lifts which included a world record clean & jerk of 186 kg which also set the total world record.[8]
Li improved on her own world records at the 2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships in 2021. She increased her snatch record from 147 to 148, her clean & jerk record from 186 to 187, and her total record from 332 to 335.[9]
She represented China at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's +87 kg event, winning the gold medal with a new Olympic record of 320 kg.[10]
Major results[]
Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
2021 | Tokyo, Japan | +87 kg | 130 | 135 | 140 OR | 1 | 162 | 173 | 180 OR | 1 | 320 OR | |
World Championships | ||||||||||||
2019 | Pattaya, Thailand | +87 kg | 136 | 142 | 146 | 175 | 182 | 186 WR | 332 WR | |||
Asian Championships | ||||||||||||
2019 | Ningbo, China | +87 kg | 137 | 142 | 147 WR | 175 | 322 | |||||
2020 | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | +87 kg | 135 | 143 | 148 CWR | 175 | 187 CWR | — | 335 CWR | |||
IWF World Cup | ||||||||||||
2019 | Fuzhou, China | +87 kg | 135 | 142 | 175 | 182 | 324 | |||||
2019 | Tianjin, China | +87 kg | 130 | 138 | 165 | 173 | 177 | 315 |
References[]
- ^ "一个对自己成绩不满意 一个被奥运金牌"压"累了——汪周雨李雯雯都要向极限进击". General Administration of Sport of China. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "Worried about the cardboard bed?A 300-pound Chinese weightlifting girl is sleeping on the ground, she has great hopes of winning gold in the Olympics". iNews. 4 August 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "Athletes".
- ^ "China collect 31 golds, breaking 9 records at IWF World Cup". xinhuanet. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ IWF World Cup Fuzhou Start List
- ^ IWF World Cup Fuzhou Results
- ^ "ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIPS". Olympic Channel. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
- ^ "LI holds all three World Records". IWF.net. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
- ^ Results Book
- ^ "Women's +87 kg Results" (PDF). 2020 Summer Olympics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
External links[]
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Chinese female weightlifters
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for China
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting