Deng Wei (, born 14 February 1993) is a Chinese retired

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. She is an Olympic Champion, five-time World Champion and Asian Champion. She competed in the 58 kg and 63 kg categories until 2018 and 64 kg starting in 2018 after the

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reorganized the categories.

Career

She competed at the

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in the 63 kg category. She put on a dominating display, she matched the

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of 115 kg in the snatch, and set new

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in the clean & jerk and total. She outlifted the silver medalist Choe Hyo-sim by 14 kg. In 2018 she competed at the

2018 World Weightlifting Championships The 2018 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 1 to 10 November 2018. This was the first World Championship after the International Weightlifting Federation, IWF changed their weight classes and nullified all w ...

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, sweeping gold medals in all lifts, while setting 5 new senior world records, and outlifting the silver medalist Rim Un-sim by 14 kg. Throughout her career she has set 20 senior world records.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Deng, Wei 1993 births Living people People from Sanming Weightlifters from Fujian Chinese female weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for China Olympic medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for China Weightlifters at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics World Weightlifting Championships medalists Asian Games silver medalists for China Weightlifters at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Youth Olympic gold medalists for China 21st-century Chinese sportswomen

Career

Major results

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