Li Dayin
NationalityChinese
Birth date12 February 1998 (age 28)
Xiushan County, Chongqing, China
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) [citation needed]
Weight88.48 kg
CountryChina
SportWeightlifting
Event–89 kg
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Li Dayin (Chinese: 李大银; pinyin: Lǐ Dàyín; born 12 February 1998) is a Chinese weightlifter.[1][2][3] He is a World Champion, Asian Champion and has held the snatch junior world record in the defunct 81 kg division, as well as the snatch and total senior world record in the defunct 89 kg division. He won the gold medal in the men's 81 kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.[4]

Career

World Championships

In 2018 the International Weightlifting Federation updated the weight classes, and he competed in the newly created 81 kg division as the 2018 World Championships. The 81 kg competition saw 5 world records set and 11 junior world records set.[5] In the snatch portion Li set two junior world records and was in third place after Lü Xiaojun and Mohamed Ihab exchanged world record lifts. In the clean & jerk portion of the competition he exchanged junior world records with Harrison Maurus, his final gold medal winning lift of 204 kg secured him the bronze medal in the total and junior world records in all lifts.[6][7][8]

Other Competitions

He competed at the 2019 IWF World Cup (a qualifying event for the 2020 Summer Olympics) held in Fuzhou.[9] He swept gold and set a new world record in the total with 375 kg.[10]

Major results

YearVenueWeightSnatch (kg)Clean & Jerk (kg)TotalRank
123Rank123Rank
Representing
World Championships
2018Ashgabat, Turkmenistan81 kg163168172193198204372
2019Pattaya, Thailand81 kg166166171198206206377 WR
2022Bogotá, Colombia81 kg167171174196201201372
2023Riyadh, Saudi Arabia89 kg1701771774206213213383
Asian Championships
2019Ningbo, China81 kg1631681721951952004363
2021Tashkent, Uzbekistan81 kg167172175 CWR198198198–––
2023Jinju, South Korea89 kg171176180 WR205216216396 WR
2025Jiangshan, China89 kg170176–203210210379
IWF World Cup
2019Fuzhou, China81 kg163168171195200204375 WR
2019Tianjin, China81 kg165171171190195200371
2024Phuket, Thailand89 kg1731771782102102164383
  • CWR: Current world record
  • WR: World record

References

  1. ^ "Asian Games profile". en.Asiangames2018.id. Archived from the original on 5 November 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Biography". IWF.net. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  3. ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 81 kg
  4. ^ Oliver, Brian (11 December 2022). "Teenager Nasar gets world record after bomb-out at weightlifting World Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  5. ^ 2018 IWF World Championships Ashgabat Results Book
  6. ^ "81 kg Standings". IWF.net. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  7. ^ Ashgabat2018. "A Chinese weightlifter became the fourth time champion of the IWF World Championships". Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  8. ^ "World Record Parade in the men's 81kg". IWF.net. 5 November 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  9. ^ "2019 IWF World Cup Start List". Archived from the original on 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  10. ^ "2019 IWF World Cup Results Book". Archived from the original on 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2019-03-03.