Liu Chunhong (; born January 29, 1983, in

Yantai Yantai, formerly known as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the Bohai Strait, Yantai borders Qingdao on the ...

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Career

At the 2003 World Weightlifting Championships she won in the 69 kg category with a total of ten new world records and junior world records. She competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, and won the gold medal in the 69 kg class. At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she won the snatch competition in the 69 kg category with 121 kg, and won the silver medal lifting in total 271 kg. At the 2008 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal in the 69 kg category, while setting new Olympic and world records in both the snatch and clean and jerk with a lift of 128 kg and 158 kg respectively for a world record total of 286 kg. This total would have been enough to win gold and set the Olympic record in the 75 kg category (heavyweight) , as well as tie Svetlana Podobedova's then world record in that category. She became the first ever woman to defend her Olympic title in weightlifting. On 12 January 2017 it was announced that because of a doping violation she had been disqualified from the 2008 Olympic Games.

Personal bests (69 kg)

*Snatch: 128 kg ( 2008 Summer Olympics, disqualified in 2017) *Clean and Jerk: 158 kg ( 2008 Summer Olympics, disqualified in 2017) *Total: 286 kg ( 2008 Summer Olympics, disqualified in 2017)

Other

*Jerk (off rack): 175 kg (training claim) *Front Squat: 200.0 kg *Back Squat: 230.0 kg (Raw women's 69 kg all-time world record)

References

External links

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Chunhong Liu at Athens2004.com
* * 1983 births Living people Olympic gold medalists for China Olympic weightlifters of China Sportspeople from Yantai Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in weightlifting Asian Games medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters from Shandong Weightlifters at the 2002 Asian Games Weightlifters at the 2010 Asian Games Chinese female weightlifters Doping cases in weightlifting Chinese sportspeople in doping cases Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals World Weightlifting Championships medalists 20th-century Chinese women 21st-century Chinese women {{PRChina-weightlifting-bio-stub