Li Wenwen | |
Native Name: | 李雯雯 |
Nationality: | Chinese |
Birth Date: | 2000 3, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Anshan, Liaoning, China |
Height: | 1.78m (05.84feet)[1] [2] |
Weight: | 150 kg[3] |
Country: | China |
Sport: | Weightlifting |
Coach: | Wu Meijin[4] |
Event: | +87 kg |
Li Wenwen (; born 5 March 2000) is a Chinese weightlifter competing in the women's +87 kg division.[5] She won the Olympic gold medal for the +87 kg division in 2020, and is the current world champion, as well as the incumbent Asian champion. In 2021, she set the current world records for both clean & jerk and snatch.
In 2019 Li competed at the IWF World Cup[6] in Fuzhou, winning silver medals and setting junior world records in the snatch, clean & jerk and total in the +87 kg category.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]
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.[10]
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.[11]
Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | |||||||||
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Olympic Games | |||||||||||||||
align=left | 130 | 135 | 140 OR | 1 | 162 | 173 | 180 OR | 1 | 320 OR | ||||||
130 | 136 | — | 1 | 167 | 173 | 1 | 309 | ||||||||
World Championships | |||||||||||||||
136 | 142 | 146 | 175 | 182 | 186 WR | 332 WR | |||||||||
2022 | Bogotá, Colombia | +87 kg | 130 | 141 | 166 | 170 | — | 311 | |||||||
Asian Championships | |||||||||||||||
2019 | +87 kg | 137 | 142 | 147 WR | 175 | 322 | |||||||||
+87 kg | 135 | 143 | 148 CWR | 175 | 187 CWR | — | 335 CWR | ||||||||
+87 kg | 130 | 135 | 140 | 170 | 175 | — | 315 | ||||||||
IWF World Cup | |||||||||||||||
+87 kg | 135 | 142 | 175 | 182 | 324 | ||||||||||
+87 kg | 130 | 138 | 165 | 173 | 177 | 315 |