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 ...
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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
References
External links
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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
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