Chen Lijun (

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谌利军; born 8 February 1993) is a Chinese

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

, Olympic Champion, four time World Champion and two time Asian Champion competing in the 62 kg division until 2018 and 67 kg starting in 2018 after the

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reorganized the categories.

Career

Olympics

He competed at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

in the 62 kg division but was forced to withdraw from the competition after his second snatch attempt due to legs cramps. In 2021 at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

, he won the gold medal in the Men's 67kg category, lifting 145 kg in the Snatch and 187 kg in the

Clean and Jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...

for a 332 kg total, with new Olympic records set in the clean and jerk, and overall total.

World Championships

He competed at the 2013 World Championships in the Men's 62 kg class, lifting 146 kg in the Snatch and 175 kg in the

for a 321 kg total, winning silver medals in the snatch and the clean & jerk and a gold medal in the total. In 2015, he competed at the 2015 World Championships in the 62 kg class, lifting 150 kg in the snatch and a

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183 kg in the clean & jerk for a world record 333 kg total, earning a silver medal in the Snatch and gold medals in the Clean and Jerk and total. In 2018, the IWF restructured the weight classes and he competed in the 67 kg category as the 2018 World Championships. Coming into the competition he was the heavy favorite to win, and after the snatch portion he was in second place, 2 kg behind the snatch gold medalist

Huang Minhao Huang Minhao (; born 21 August 1992) is a Chinese weightlifter competing in the 62 kg category until 2018 and 67 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), headquartere ...

. In the clean & jerk portion he successfully lifted 182 kg in his second attempt giving him a total world record of 332 kg and his third World Championships win.

Major results

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