Le Maosheng (; born August 9, 1978 in Ningyuan,

Yongzhou Yongzhou, formerly known as Lingling, is a prefecture-level city in the south of Hunan province, People's Republic of China, located on the southern bank of the Xiang River, which is formed by the confluence of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, and b ...

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

) is a

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...

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 lift ...

who competed in the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

and in the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

. In 2000 he finished fourth in the 62 kg class. Four years later he won the silver medal in the 62 kg class. At the 2002 Asian Games he won with a world record

clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...

of 182.5 kg, and a total of 322.5 kg.

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1978 births Living people Olympic silver medalists for China Olympic weightlifters of China People from Yongzhou Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics World record holders in Olympic weightlifting Olympic medalists in weightlifting Asian Games medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters from Hunan Weightlifters at the 1998 Asian Games Weightlifters at the 2002 Asian Games Chinese male weightlifters {{PRChina-weightlifting-bio-stub Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games World Weightlifting Championships medalists