Li Wenwen (,

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: Lǐ Wén-Wén; born 5 March 2000) 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 lif ...

, Olympic Champion, World Champion, and Asian champion competing in the women's +87 kg division.

Career

In 2019 she competed at the IWF World Cup in Fuzhou, winning silver medals and setting junior world records in the snatch, clean & jerk and total in the +87 kg category. Later in 2019 she competed at the

2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships The 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships were held in Ningbo, China from 20 to 28 April 2019. It was the 48th men's and 29th women's championship. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking by al ...

in the +87 kg category. In the snatch portion she set a world record with a lift of 147 kg, and won gold medals in all lifts. She competed at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships in the +87 kg division against teammate

Meng Suping Meng Suping (; born 17 July 1989) is a Chinese weightlifter. She competes in the women's super heavyweight category of +75 kg and is an Olympic champion and multiple world medalist. At the 2012 World University Championships she set a wor ...

. She had a perfect 6 for 6 day and won gold medals in all lifts which included a

world record A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organization ...

clean & jerk of 186 kg which also set the total

. Li improved on her own world records at the

2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships The 2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships were held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from 16 to 25 April 2021. Originally the event was scheduled to take place from 18 to 25 April 2020 but was postponed to 16 to 25 April 2021 because of the COVID-19 pand ...

in 2021. She increased her snatch record from 147 to 148, her clean & jerk record from 186 to 187, and her total record from 332 to 335.Results Book
/ref> She represented China 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 1 ...

in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's +87 kg event, winning the gold medal with a new Olympic record of 320 kg.

Major results

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Wenwen 2000 births Living people Chinese female weightlifters World Weightlifting Championships medalists Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for China Olympic medalists in weightlifting Olympic weightlifters of China 21st-century Chinese women