Li Dayin (; born 12 February 1998) 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 ...

and Asian Champion competing in the 81 kg division. He has set three world records and holds all three junior world records in the 81 kg division. He won the gold medal in the men's 81kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.

Career

World Championships

In 2018 the

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updated the weight classes, and he competed in the newly created 81 kg division as the 2018 World Championships. The 81 kg competition saw 5

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set and 11 junior world records set. In the snatch portion Li set two junior world records and was in third place after

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and

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exchanged world record lifts. In the clean & jerk portion of the competition he exchanged junior world records with

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, his final gold medal winning lift of 204 kg secured him the bronze medal in the total and junior world records in all lifts.

Other Competitions

He competed at the 2019 IWF World Cup (a qualifying event for the

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) held in

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. He swept gold and set a new

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in the total with 375 kg.

Major results

*CWR: Current world record *WR: World record

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Dayin 1998 births Living people Chinese male weightlifters World Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Chinese people