Li Wenwen
Honorific suffixOLY
Native name李雯雯
NationalityChinese
Birth date5 March 2000 (age 26)
Birth placeAnshan, Liaoning, China
Height1.78 m[1][2]
Weight150 kg[3]
HometownBeijing, China
CountryChina
SportWeightlifting
Event+87 kg
ClubFujian Province
Pb

Li Wenwen (simplified Chinese: 李雯雯; born 5 March 2000) is a Chinese weightlifter competing in the women's +87 kg division.[4] 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[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]

In August 2024, she finished in first place in the women's +81 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.[11]

Major results

YearVenueWeightSnatch (kg)Clean & Jerk (kg)TotalRank
123Rank123Rank
Olympic Games
2021Tokyo, Japan+87 kg130135140 OR162173180 OR320 OR
2024Paris, France+81 kg130136—167173174309
World Championships
2019Pattaya, Thailand+87 kg136142146175182186 WR332 WR
2022Bogotá, Colombia+87 kg130141141166170—311
2023Riyadh, Saudi Arabia+87 kg130130————————
IWF World Cup
2019Fuzhou, China+87 kg135142146175175182324
2019Tianjin, China+87 kg130138142165173177315
2024Phuket, Thailand+87 kg133140145170180—325
Asian Championships
2019Ningbo, China+87 kg137142147 WR175180185322
2021Tashkent, Uzbekistan+87 kg135143148 WR175187 CWR—335 CWR
2023Jinju, South Korea+87 kg130135140170175—315

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Athletes"
  4. ^ "China collect 31 golds, breaking 9 records at IWF World Cup". xinhuanet. Archived from the original on 27 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  5. ^ "IWF World Cup Fuzhou Start List". Archived from the original on 28 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  6. ^ "IWF World Cup Fuzhou Results". Archived from the original on 28 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  7. ^ "ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIPS". Olympic Channel. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  8. ^ "LI holds all three World Records". IWF.net. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  9. ^ Results Book
  10. ^ "Women's +87 kg Results". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Weightlifting Results Book". 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived 11 August 2024 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 12 August 2024.