Chen Weiqiang
Chen Weiqiang (Chinese陈 伟强/陈 伟强, Pinyin Chén Weiqiang; born June 7, 1958 in Dongguan, Guangdong Province) is a former Chinese weightlifter. He was Olympic champion in 1984 in a battle in the featherweight
Career
Chen Weiqiang began in 1972 at the provincial high school in Guangdong with the weight lifting. That was the time when in China after the end of the so-called Cultural Revolution again sports could be operated. In 1974 he was admitted on account of his efforts in the province of Guangdong Team and received Chen Jingkai as a coach.
His first try at an international championship he graduated in 1977 at the Asian championship. Of this, however, no results are known. In the same year he was then employed as a 19 -year-old athlete in the Senior World Championships in Stuttgart. He started there in the flyweight and made in cracking three failed attempts. In thrusting he managed 125 kg, but remained unplaced duel without result.
In 1978 he was Chinese champion bantamweight title with an output of 240 kg ( 102.5 to 137.5 ), which he, of 237.5 kg ( 105 to 132.5 ) overcame Ho Yichang, referred to the 2nd place. On April 14, 1978, he was in Canton in a Chinese team that played a friendly comparison campaign against the Federal Republic of Germany. He mastered there Bantamweight 247.5 kg ( 107.5 to 140 ) and picked for his country a point, because the FRG had the bantamweight title vacant. Then he started at the Junior World Championships in Athens in 1978, finishing there in the bantamweight title with 245 kg ( 107.5 to 137.5 ) 2nd place behind the Soviet lifter Pospelov, who came to 250 kg ( 110-140 ). Finally, he also took on the World Cup this year in Gettysburg (USA) part and came there with 242.5 kg ( 102.5 to 140 ) bantamweight on the 5th Place. In thrusting he missed with his 140 kg just a medal and ended up in this sub-discipline in 4th place.
In 1979 he exhibited at an event in Shanghai with 151.5 kg a new world record in pushing the Bantam weight on. In 1979 he was again employed in the World Cup, which was held in Thessaloniki. He scored there with 257.5 kg ( 110 to 147.5 ), a new personal best, but with which he finished only 7th place in the overall standings. However, in an additional fourth attempt in pushing he made in Salonica with 153 kg another world record. If he had this weight encountered already in the third attempt, he had come to 2nd place in the overall standings and would have become world champion in bumping.
From the years 1980 and 1981 no results are known by Chen Weiqiang. He was also none of the international championships at the start. It should be noted that China did not participate in 1980 for political reasons at the Olympic Games in Moscow.
1982 won Chen Weiqiang then at the Asian Games in New Delhi at featherweight with a duel capacity of 282.5 kg and thus relegating Li Hui- bong from North Korea who came to 277.5 kg, to 2nd place. In the 1982 World Cup in Lille, he was not used. In 1983, he came at the World Championships in Moscow in spring weight of 280 kg ( 120-160 ) on the 6th Place.
In 1984 he used at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles advantage of the situation that resulted from the boycott these Games by almost all of the former Eastern bloc countries and was at featherweight with a duel power 282.5 kg ( 125-157, 5) Olympic champion. At the same time he was also a duel champion and world champion in the thrusting.
After his Olympic victory Chen Weiqiang resigned.
International success
World Cup individual medals
- World Championship gold medals: 1984/Stoßen
- World Cup bronze medals: 1984/Reißen
National competitions
(if known)
World Records
Notes
- All competitions in a duel, consisting of tearing and piercing,
- OS = The Olympic Games,
- WM = World Championship,
- Flyweight, then to 52 kg body weight,
- Bantamweight, then to 56 kg body weight,
- Featherweight, then up to 60 kg body weight
Swell
- Journal Athletics
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
- Website www.sports123.com