Liao Qiuyun (, born 13 July 1995) 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 ...

. She is the silver medalist at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and World and Asian Champion. She competes in the women's 55 kg division.

Career

In early 2019 she competed at the

2019 IWF World Cup The 2019 IWF World Cup in Olympic weightlifting, weightlifting was held in Fuzhou, China from 23 to 27 February 2019. It was also a qualification event for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. There was 1 World record progression men's weightliftin ...

in the 55 kg division and won gold medals in all lifts. 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 55 kg category, won gold medals in all lifts, and set 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 ...

in the clean & jerk with a lift of 128 kg. She outlifted silver medalist

Hidilyn Diaz Hidilyn Francisco Diaz-Naranjo (; born February 20, 1991) is a Filipino World and Olympic champion weightlifter and airwoman, the first Filipino to ever win an Olympic gold medal for the Philippines. She is also an Olympic weightlifting reco ...

by 15 kg. In 2021 at the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won China a silver medal in women's 55 kg weightlifting.https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/weightlifting/event-schedule-women-s-55kg.htm

Major results

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* 1995 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Olympic medalists in weightlifting World record holders in weightlifting Chinese female weightlifters World Weightlifting Championships medalists Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for China Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters of China 20th-century Chinese women 21st-century Chinese women {{PRChina-weightlifting-bio-stub