Li Wenwen

Li Wenwen
OLY
Li in 2024
Personal information
Native name
李雯雯
NicknameBig Baby
NationalityChinese
Born (2000-03-05) 5 March 2000
Anshan, Liaoning, China
Home townBeijing, China
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1][2]
Weight150 kg (331 lb)[3]
Sport
CountryChina
SportWeightlifting
Event
+87 kg
ClubFujian Province
Coached byWu Meijin[4]
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
Medal record
Women's weightlifting
Representing  China
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2020 Tokyo+87 kg
Gold medal – first place2024 Paris+81 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 Pattaya+87 kg
Gold medal – first place2022 Bogotá+87 kg
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 Ningbo+87 kg
Gold medal – first place2020 Tashkent+87 kg
Gold medal – first place2023 Jinju+87 kg
National Games of China
Gold medal – first place2021 Shaanxi+87 kg

Li Wenwen (Chinese: 李雯雯; pinyin: Lǐ Wénwén; born 5 March 2000) is a Chinese weightlifter competing in the women's +87 kg division.[5] She is a double Olympic champion, as well as the double world and 3 time Asian champion. In 2021, she set the current world records for both clean & jerk and snatch.

Career

In 2019, Li competed at the IWF World Cup[6] in Fuzhou, winning silver medals and setting junior world records in the snatch, clean & jerk and total in the +87 kg category.[7] Later in 2019, she competed at the 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships in the +87 kg category. In the snatch portion she set a world record with a lift of 147 kg, and won gold medals in all lifts.

She competed at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships in the +87 kg division against teammate Meng Suping.[8] She had a perfect 6 for 6 day and won gold medals in all lifts which included a world record clean & jerk of 186 kg which also set the total world record.[9]

Li improved on her own world records at the 2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships in 2021. She increased her snatch record from 147 to 148, her clean & jerk record from 186 to 187, and her total record from 332 to 335.[10]

She represented China at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's +87 kg event, winning the gold medal with a new Olympic record of 320 kg.[11]

In August 2024, she finished in first place in the women's +81 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.[12]

Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
2021Tokyo, Japan+87 kg130135140 ORN/a162173180 ORN/a320 OR1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024Paris, France+81 kg130136—N/a167173174N/a3091st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships
2019Pattaya, Thailand+87 kg1361421461st place, gold medalist(s)175182186 WR1st place, gold medalist(s)332 WR1st place, gold medalist(s)
2022 Bogotá, Colombia +87 kg 130 141 141 1st place, gold medalist(s) 166 170 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 311 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2023Riyadh, Saudi Arabia+87 kg130130————————
IWF World Cup
2019Fuzhou, China+87 kg1351421462nd place, silver medalist(s)1751751822nd place, silver medalist(s)3242nd place, silver medalist(s)
2019Tianjin, China+87 kg1301381421st place, gold medalist(s)1651731771st place, gold medalist(s)3151st place, gold medalist(s)
2024Phuket, Thailand+87 kg1331401451st place, gold medalist(s)170180—1st place, gold medalist(s)3251st place, gold medalist(s)
Asian Championships
2019Ningbo, China+87 kg137142147 WR1st place, gold medalist(s)1751801851st place, gold medalist(s)3221st place, gold medalist(s)
2021Tashkent, Uzbekistan+87 kg135143148 WR1st place, gold medalist(s)175187 CWR—1st place, gold medalist(s)335 CWR1st place, gold medalist(s)
2023Jinju, South Korea+87 kg1301351401st place, gold medalist(s)170175—1st place, gold medalist(s)3151st place, gold medalist(s)

References

  1. ↑ "一个对自己成绩不满意 一个被奥运金牌"压"累了——汪周雨李雯雯都要向极限进击". General Administration of Sport of China. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  2. ↑ "Worried about the cardboard bed?A 300-pound Chinese weightlifting girl is sleeping on the ground, she has great hopes of winning gold in the Olympics". iNews. 4 August 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ↑ "Athletes".
  4. ↑ 人在奥运年 李雯雯：快乐“大宝贝”重新归来 (in Chinese)
  5. ↑ "China collect 31 golds, breaking 9 records at IWF World Cup". xinhuanet. Archived from the original on 27 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  6. ↑ "IWF World Cup Fuzhou Start List" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  7. ↑ "IWF World Cup Fuzhou Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  8. ↑ "ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIPS". Olympic Channel. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  9. ↑ "LI holds all three World Records". IWF.net. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  10. ↑ Results Book
  11. ↑ "Women's +87 kg Results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  12. ↑ "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
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