Qiu Hongxia (born 10 February 1982) is a

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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 ...

. Qiu participated in the women's -53 kg class at the

2006 World Weightlifting Championships The 2006 World Weightlifting Championships were held at the Handball Pavilion and Weightlifting Pavilion Dr. José Joaquín Puello in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The event took place from September 30 to October 7, 2006. Medal summary M ...

and won the gold medal, snatching 98 kg and

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 ...

ing an additional 128 kg for a total of 226 kg. With these lifts, she held the world records in the

, and still holds one for the total in the women's 53 kg class.

References

Living people 1982 births Chinese female weightlifters World record setters in weightlifting Place of birth missing (living people) World Weightlifting Championships medalists 20th-century Chinese women 21st-century Chinese women {{PRChina-weightlifting-bio-stub