Li Wenwen (; born 5 March 2000) is a Chinese
weightlifter
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competing in the women's +87 kg division. She is a double Olympic champion, as well as the double world and 3 time Asian champion. In 2021, she set the
current world records for both
clean & jerk and
snatch.
Career
In 2019, Li competed at the IWF World Cup in
Fuzhou
Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian, China. The city lies between the Min River (Fujian), Min River estuary to the south and the city of Ningde to the north. Together, Fuzhou and Ningde make up the Eastern Min, Mindong linguistic and cultural regi ...
, winning silver medals and setting
junior world records in the snatch, clean & jerk and total in the +87 kg category. 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
The 2019 World Weightlifting Championships was held in Pattaya, Thailand from 18 to 27 September 2019.
On September 12, Egypt was banned from competing at these Championships due to multiple doping offenses. The host nation, Thailand, was also ba ...
in the +87 kg division against teammate
Meng Suping. 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
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.
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.
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She represented China at the 2020 Summer Olympics
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's +87 kg event, winning the gold medal with a new Olympic record of 320 kg.2024 Summer Olympics
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held in Paris, France.
Major results
References
External links
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2000 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Anshan
Weightlifters from Liaoning
Chinese female weightlifters
Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Olympic weightlifters for China
Olympic gold medalists for China
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
21st-century Chinese sportswomen
Asian Weightlifting Championships medalists
Manchu sportspeople