Cao Lei

Cao Lei ( Chinese曹 磊, Pinyin Cao Lei, born December 24, 1983 in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, China) is a Chinese weightlifter. She was 2008 Olympic champion in the weight class up to 75 kg body weight.

Career

Cao Lei grew up in her hometown. She comes from a many years ago from the Middle East who had emigrated to China family, and is Islamic faith. Now she is living in Heilongjiang. With the weight lifting began in Qinhuangdo Qin Huang Dao in the sports school at the age of 10 years. My first coach was there, Li Ting. Her father, Cao Guochen, was a weightlifter. From 1997, she trained in the Daqing Sports School and since 2002 it belongs to the Chinese national team at the weightlifting. In this she is trained under the direction of Ma Ma Wenhui Wengquang of. The senior she first started at a size of 1.68 meters in the weight category to 69 kg body weight (bw ), but then switched to the weight class of 75 kg body weight.

In 2001, she was 18 years old the first time Chinese champion. At the international weightlifting stage she appeared in 2003. She won this year at the Afro-Asian Games in the weight category to 69 kg body weight of 240 kg ( 100-140 ) in a duel the first place and was then in Hermosillo / Mexico the same weight class and junior world champion in 2003 with 245 kg ( 105-140 ) in a duel.

After her international career came to a halt a little, because she could not place it in the front of the field in the Chinese championships, as the competition in China was very or is. 2005 but they won at the East Asian Games in the weight category to 75 kg body weight and in 2006 also at the Asian Games in Doha. There they reached in the weight category to 75 kg body weight in a duel 272 kg ( 120-147 ) and won so clearly before Oo Mya Sando from Myanmar, which reached 250 kg. In 2006, she was also first used at the World Cup. It started in Santo Domingo ( DOM) and got there with 268 kg ( 118-150 ) the world title in a duel just before Nadezhda Jewstjuchina, Russia, scored 267 kg.

In the following two years, Cao Lei proved to be the best weightlifter in the world in their weight class. She won at the 2007 World Championships in Chiang Mai / Thailand, where he obtained 286 kg ( 128-158 ) in a duel, a personal best. She referred Sabolotnaja Natalya from Russia with 281 kg on the 2nd place. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing she won in superior style the gold medal with 282 kg ( 128-154 ) and referred Alla Waschenina from Kazakhstan, 266 kg, and Nadezhda Jewstjuchina, 264 kg to the places.

At the 2009 World Championships in Goyang / South Korea, she met the returning in the competition scene after a two-year doping suspension, starting now for Kazakhstan, Russian Svetlana Podobedowa, which was in great shape and 292 kg ( 132-160 ) before Cao Lei, the 269 ​​kg ( 121-148 ) scored, won, is being hoped that the performance of the new Kazakh in preparation for regular fashion came about.

International success

World Cup individual medals

• World Championship gold medals: 2006/Stoßen - 2007/Stoßen
• WM / Silver medals: 2006/Reißen - 2007/Reißen - 2009/Reißen - 2009/Stoßen

Notes

• All competitions in a duel, consisting of tearing and piercing,
• OS = The Olympic Games,
• WM = World Championship,
• BW = 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,
• Website " www.sports - reference.com "