Liu Shoubin

Liu Shoubin (Chinese刘寿斌, Pinyin Liú Shoubin, born March 3, 1968 in Jiangyou, Sichuan Province) is a former Chinese weightlifter. He won at the 1988 Olympics and 1992 World Champion medals and in 1990, respectively bantamweight.

Career

Liu Shoubin, about the origin and development of weightlifting is not known, appeared in 1986 on the international Heber stage when he took 2nd place at the Junior World Championships in Donaueschingen, in the bantamweight title with 252.5 kg behind his compatriot Liang Shaofeng. It thus belongs to the second generation of Chinese weightlifters who pushed forward to the world's top after the 2nd World War. The first generation were among those lifters who belonged 1955-1965 before the world leaders, but without being able to show off their skills at the Olympic Games or World Championships. For this generation was with the weight lifting with the so-called reform of Chinese culture by Mao Zedong terminus. It was then over 20 years to Chinese weightlifters were world class again.

Liu Shoubin occupied in the 1987 World Championships in Ostrava bantamweight 275 kg ( 130-145 ) took second place behind the Bulgarians Neno Tersiiski, 287.5 kg and demonstrated that he is capable of exceptional performance especially in the snatch. With its 130 kg, it was world champion in this particular discipline. In tearing he presented throughout his career on two world records and indeed in 1989 in Kemerovo with 134.5 kg and 1991 in Donaueschingen 135 kg.

At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, he scored in single combat 267.5 kg ( 127.5 to 140 ), with whom he won 292.5 kilograms and his compatriot He Yingqiang, 287.5 kg, the bronze medal behind Oksen Mirzoyan, USSR.

In 1989, Liu Shoubin increased its duel power to 285 kg ( 130-155 ) and finished in behind Hafiz Suleimanoglu from Turkey, who scored 287.5 kg ( 130 to 157.5 ), 2nd place, and let it also his countryman He Yingqiang, 280 kg behind.

In 1990, he finished at the Asian Games in Beijing behind the South Koreans Chun Byung- kwan 2nd place. The performances of the athletes in this competition are not known. At the World Championships in Budapest in 1990 Liu Shoubin then celebrated the biggest success in his career, for he was 285 kg ( 130-155 ) world champion in single combat before He Yingqiang and Chun Byung- kwan.

At the 1991 World Championships in Donaueschingen he lost the duel titles of Chun Byung- kwan, although he scored a new personal best in a duel with 292.5 kg ( 135 to 157.5 ). Chun was with 295 kg 130-165 ) just ahead of him.

His last start at an international championship Liu graduated Shoubin at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. There he was by far no such good form as in 1991 and reached in a duel only 277.5 kilograms ( 130 to 147.5 ). This performance was long enough to win the silver medal behind Chun Byung- kwan, 287.5 kg ( 132.5 to 155 ).

International success

World Cup individual medals

  • World Championship gold medals: 1987/Reißen - 1989/Reißen - 1990/Reißen - 1991/Reißen
  • World Championship silver medals: 1989/Stoßen - 1990/Stoßen - 1991/Stoßen
  • World Cup bronze medals: 198/Stoßen

World Records

Notes

  • All competitions in a duel, consisting of tearing and Stooßen,
  • OS = The Olympic Games,
  • WM = World Championship,
  • Bantam weight to 56 kg body weight,
  • The competitions at the Olympic Games since 1988 are no longer as World Championships

Swell

  • Journal Athletics
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
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