Gu Wei (born April 25, 1986) is a
Chinese weightlifter competing in the Women's 58 kg category.
At the
2005 World Championships in
Doha,
Qatar she won the gold medal with 102 kg in the
snatch, a world record of 139 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 ...
, and a world record of 241 kg in total.
She won the overall bronze medal at the 2006 World Junior Championships, with a total of 205 kg.
Notes and references
1986 births
Living people
Chinese female weightlifters
World record setters in weightlifting
21st-century Chinese women
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