Liao Hui (; born October 5, 1987 in
Xiantao
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,
Hubei
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) is a former
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weightlifter
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, Olympic champion and three time world champion.
Before the
International Weightlifting Federation
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reorganized the categories, he held all three
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in the 69 kg class.
Career
In 2007 at the 6th Chinese City Games he broke two junior world records and won gold in the 69 kg class. At the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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he won the gold medal in the 69 kg class with a total of 348 kg. In 2009 and 2013 he won the World Weightlifting Championships. He also won the
2010 World Weightlifting Championships before being retroactively disqualified for performance-enhancing drug use the following year.
Liao became a member of the national weightlifting team in early 2007. After breaking two junior world records in 2007, he became a candidate for the Chinese national team at the 2008 Olympics after previously having been a backup for the
2012 Summer Olympics. He replaced
Zhang Guozheng
Zhang Guozheng (; born September 14, 1974 in Shunchang, Nanping, Fujian) is a Chinese weightlifter. Zhang is a World champion, Olympic champion and World Record holder. In January, 1999, Zhang Guozheng was named a member of the National Men's w ...
, the gold medalist in the 69 kg class at the
2004 Summer Olympics. Liao won the Olympic gold medal in the 69 kg class at the 2008 Olympics by lifting 158 kg in the snatch and 190 kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 348 kg.
Liao won the gold medal in the 69 kg class at the
2009 World Weightlifting Championships
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, achieving a 346 kg total.
At the
2010 World Weightlifting Championships, Liao placed first and broke the world records for both the clean and jerk and the total in the 69 kg class by lifting 198 kg and 358 kg, respectively. However, in November 2011, the
International Weightlifting Federation
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announced that Liao had tested positive for the banned substances
boldenone
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and androstatrienedione. As a result, the IWF subsequently disqualified Liao from the 2010 WWC, revoking his gold medals and invalidating his record-breaking lifts. Liao was initially banned from competition until September 30, 2014 but his ban was reduced to September, 2012 because it was a first time offense.
Liao competed for China in the 69 kg class at the
2013 World Weightlifting Championships
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Women
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, winning the gold with the highest snatch, clean and jerk, and total.
He set new records in the snatch () and total () at the 2014 World Weightlifting Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan. His performance at this competition, a total of 359 kg at 68.68 kg bodyweight, earned him a
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of 478.56, the best to date from a Chinese weightlifter.
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1987 births
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Olympic gold medalists for China
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