Li Wenwen

In this Chinese name, the family name is Li.

Li Wenwen
Li in 2024
Personal information
Native name李雯雯
NicknameBig Baby
NationalityChinese
Born (2000-03-05) 5 March 2000 (age 24)
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
Representing  China
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo +87 kg
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris +81 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Pattaya +87 kg
Gold medal – first place 2022 Bogotá +87 kg
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Ningbo +87 kg
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tashkent +87 kg
Gold medal – first place 2023 Jinju +87 kg
National Games of China
Gold medal – first place 2021 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, the current world champion, as well as the incumbent 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
2021 Tokyo, Japan +87 kg 130 135 140 OR — 162 173 180 OR — 320 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 Paris, France +81 kg 130 136 — — 167 173 174 — 309 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships
2019 Pattaya, Thailand +87 kg 136 142 146 1st place, gold medalist(s) 175 182 186 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 332 WR 1st 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)
2023 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia +87 kg 130 130 — — — — — — — —
IWF World Cup
2019 Fuzhou, China +87 kg 135 142 146 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 175 175 182 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 324 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2019 Tianjin, China +87 kg 130 138 142 1st place, gold medalist(s) 165 173 177 1st place, gold medalist(s) 315 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2024 Phuket, Thailand +87 kg 133 140 145 1st place, gold medalist(s) 170 180 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 325 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Asian Championships
2019 Ningbo, China +87 kg 137 142 147 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 175 180 185 1st place, gold medalist(s) 322 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2021 Tashkent, Uzbekistan +87 kg 135 143 148 CWR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 175 187 CWR — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 335 CWR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2023 Jinju, South Korea +87 kg 130 135 140 1st place, gold medalist(s) 170 175 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 315 1st 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.
  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.