Liu Chunhong

In this Chinese name, the family name is Liu.

Liu Chunhong (Chinese: 刘春红; pinyin: Liú Chūnhóng; born January 29, 1985,^[1][2][3] in Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province^[3]) is a Chinese weightlifter.

Liu Chunhong

Personal information
Born	(1985-01-29) January 29, 1985 (age 39)[1][2][3] Zhaoyuan, Shandong[3]
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[2]
Sport
Weight class	69 kg
Medal record Olympic Games 2004 Athens – 69 kg Disqualified 2008 Beijing – 69 kg World Championships 2004 Vancouver – 69 kg 2005 Doha – 75 kg 2007 Chiang Mai – 69 kg Asian Games 2002 Busan 69 kg 2010 Guangzhou 69 kg

Career

At the 2003 World Weightlifting Championships she won in the 69 kg category with a total of ten new world records and junior world records.^[4][5]

She competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, and won the gold medal in the 69 kg class.

At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she won the snatch competition in the 69 kg category with 121 kg, and won the silver medal lifting in total 271 kg.^[6]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal in the 69 kg category, while setting new Olympic and world records in both the snatch and clean and jerk with a lift of 128 kg and 158 kg respectively for a world record total of 286 kg. This total would have been enough to win gold and set the Olympic record in the 75 kg category (heavyweight), as well as tie Svetlana Podobedova's then world record in that category. She became the first ever woman to defend her Olympic title in weightlifting.^[7]

On January 12, 2017 it was announced that because of a doping violation she had been disqualified from the 2008 Olympic Games.^[8]

Personal bests (69 kg)

• Snatch: 128 kg (2008 Summer Olympics, disqualified in 2017)
• Clean and Jerk: 158 kg (2008 Summer Olympics, disqualified in 2017)
• Total: 286 kg (2008 Summer Olympics, disqualified in 2017)

Other

• Jerk (off rack): 175 kg (training claim)^{[citation needed]}
• Front Squat: 200.0 kg^{[citation needed]}
• Back Squat: 230.0 kg (Raw women's 69 kg all-time world record)^{[citation needed]}

References

1. "Liu Chunhong". iwf.sport. International Weightlifting Federation. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
2. "Liu Chunhong". athens2004.com. Athens Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. Archived from the original on August 21, 2004. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
3. "Liu Chunhong". CIS Chinese Athletes Database. Chinese Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on October 13, 2019. Retrieved August 19, 2024.
4. "Weltrekordfestival von Liu Chunhong". ARD Sport (in German). November 20, 2003. Retrieved August 11, 2008.
5. "Chinese Liu Chunhong breaks 3 world records -- china.org.cn". www.china.org.cn. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
6. "LIU Chunhong". International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on May 27, 2011.
7. "Liu Chunhong breaks women's weightlifting world,record". xinhuanet. Archived from the original on May 18, 2011.
8. "IOC sanctions eight athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012". IOC. Retrieved January 12, 2017.

External links

• Liu Chunhong at the International Weightlifting Federation
• Liu Chunhong at Olympics.com
• Liu Chunhong at the Chinese Olympic Committee (archived)