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Chinese weightlifter (born 2000) In this Chinese name, the family name is Li.

Li Wenwen
Li in 2024
Personal information
Native name李雯雯
NicknameBig Baby
NationalityChinese
Born (2000-03-05) 5 March 2000 (age 24)
Anshan, Liaoning, China
Home townBeijing, China
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight150 kg (331 lb)
Sport
CountryChina
SportWeightlifting
Event+87 kg
ClubFujian Province
Coached byWu Meijin
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
Medal record
Representing  China
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo +87 kg
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris +81 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Pattaya +87 kg
Gold medal – first place 2022 Bogotá +87 kg
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Ningbo +87 kg
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tashkent +87 kg
Gold medal – first place 2023 Jinju +87 kg
National Games of China
Gold medal – first place 2021 Shaanxi +87 kg

Li Wenwen (Chinese: 李雯雯; pinyin: Lǐ Wénwén; born 5 March 2000) is a Chinese weightlifter competing in the women's +87 kg division. She is a double Olympic champion, 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.

Career

In 2019 Li competed at the IWF World Cup in Fuzhou, 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 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.

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.

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.

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

Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
2021 Tokyo, Japan +87 kg 130 135 140 OR — 162 173 180 OR — 320 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 Paris, France +81 kg 130 136 — — 167 173 174 — 309 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships
2019 Pattaya, Thailand +87 kg 136 142 146 1st place, gold medalist(s) 175 182 186 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 332 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2022 Bogotá, Colombia +87 kg 130 141 141 1st place, gold medalist(s) 166 170 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 311 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2023 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia +87 kg 130 130 — — — — — — — —
IWF World Cup
2019 Fuzhou, China +87 kg 135 142 146 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 175 175 182 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 324 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2019 Tianjin, China +87 kg 130 138 142 1st place, gold medalist(s) 165 173 177 1st place, gold medalist(s) 315 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 Phuket, Thailand +87 kg 133 140 145 1st place, gold medalist(s) 170 180 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 325 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Asian Championships
2019 Ningbo, China +87 kg 137 142 147 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 175 180 185 1st place, gold medalist(s) 322 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2021 Tashkent, Uzbekistan +87 kg 135 143 148 CWR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 175 187 CWR — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 335 CWR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2023 Jinju, South Korea +87 kg 130 135 140 1st place, gold medalist(s) 170 175 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 315 1st place, gold medalist(s)

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. 人在奥运年 李雯雯：快乐“大宝贝”重新归来 (in Chinese)
  5. "China collect 31 golds, breaking 9 records at IWF World Cup". xinhuanet. Archived from the original on 27 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  6. "IWF World Cup Fuzhou Start List" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  7. "IWF World Cup Fuzhou Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  8. "ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIPS". Olympic Channel. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  9. "LI holds all three World Records". IWF.net. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  10. Results Book
  11. "Women's +87 kg Results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  12. "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.

External links

Olympic Champions in Weightlifting – Women's Super Heavyweight
  • +75 kg (2000–2016)
  • +87 kg (2020)
  • +81 kg (2024–)
World Champions in Weightlifting – Women's Super Heavyweight (+87 kg)
  • +82.5 kg (1987–1992)
  • +83 kg (1993–1997)
  • +75 kg (1998–2015)
  • +90 kg (2017)
  • +87 kg (2018–)
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