Deng Wei (, born 14 February 1993) is a Chinese
weightlifter
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. She is an Olympic Champion, five-time
World Champion
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and Asian Champion. She competed in the 58 kg and 63 kg categories until 2018 and 64 kg starting in 2018 after the
International Weightlifting Federation
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reorganized the categories.
Career
She competed at the
2016 Summer Olympics
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in the 63 kg category. She put on a dominating display, she matched the
Olympic Record
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of 115 kg in the snatch, and set new
World Records
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in the clean & jerk and total. She outlifted the silver medalist
Choe Hyo-sim
Choe Hyo-sim (최효심; or ; born 5 December 1993) is a North Korean weightlifter. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and won a silver medal in the women's 63 kg. She won the silver medal at the 2013 Summer Universiad ...
by 14 kg.
In 2018 she competed at the
2018 World Weightlifting Championships
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in
Ashgabat
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, sweeping gold medals in all lifts, while setting 5 new
senior world records,
and outlifting the silver medalist
Rim Un-sim by 14 kg.
Throughout her career she has set 20
senior world records.
Major results
See also
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List of Olympic medalists in weightlifting
This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in weightlifting.
Current program
Men
Bantamweight
*–56 kg (1948–1968)
*52–56 kg (1972–1992)
*54–59 kg (1996)
*–56 kg (2000–2016)
*–61 kg (2020–)
Lightw ...
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List of Youth Olympic Games gold medalists who won Olympic gold medals
References
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1993 births
Living people
People from Sanming
Weightlifters from Fujian
Chinese female weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters of China
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
2016 Olympic gold medalists for China
Weightlifters at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
Asian Games silver medalists for China
Weightlifters at the 2014 Asian Games
Asian Games medalists in weightlifting
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Youth Olympic gold medalists for China
21st-century Chinese women