Li Meisu (; born April 17, 1959, in

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and 0 ...

) is a retired

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shot putter who won the bronze medal at the

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. She also won the Asian Games in 1982 and

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

, the Asian Championships in 1998 and the East Asian Games in 1997. Her personal best of 21.76, is also an Asian record and ranks her seventh on the shot put all-time lists. Since her retirement from competition, she has turned to coaching. She coached

Gong Lijiao Gong Lijiao (; born 24 January 1989) is a Chinese Olympic shot putter. Career She finished seventh at the 2007 World Championships, her international debut. At the 2008 Summer Olympics she finished fifth but received the bronze medal late ...

to an Olympic silver medal in 2012 and Olympic gold medal in 2020.

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* 1959 births Living people Athletes from Hebei Chinese female shot putters Olympic athletes for China Olympic bronze medalists for China Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1982 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Asian Athletics Championships winners Chinese Athletics Championships winners {{PRChina-Olympic-medalist-stub