Chen Yanqing

Chen Yanqing (Chinese陈艳青/陈艳青, Pinyin Chén Yanqing, born April 5, 1979 in Suzhou (Jiangsu) ) ​​is a Chinese weightlifter.

Career

Chen comes from Suzhou in Jiangsu Province. They began with 11 years with the weight lifting. After regional successes in the field of youth, it was in 1994 a member of the provincial selection Jiangsu and one year later, already a member of the Chinese national team. At age 18, she became world champion in the class up to 64 kg body weight for the first time. In 1999, she repeated this success in the class to 58 kg body weight. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney they could not start because China from the International Weightlifting Federation in six weight classes for the women received only four starting positions. In 2001 she retired from active competition, studied at the University of Sozhou and also worked as a trainer in the province of choice. But most of the Olympic Games in Athens, she grabbed back the ambition and she began again in 2003 with the training. The result was the 2004 Olympic gold medal in the class to 58 kg body weight.

On 11 August 2008, Chen Yanqing in Beijing repeated her Olympic title in the weight category to 58 kg body weight. She scored 106 kg in the snatch and 138 kg in the pushing, so a total of 244 kg. She became the first female weightlifter who managed to be the second time Olympic gold medalist. They also held with 140 kg for many years the world record in pushing in the weight category to 58 kg body weight.

After the 2008 Olympics, Chen Yanqing went to Canada and studied sports management there.

International success / Mehrkampf

Medals individual disciplines

(since 1988 no more World Championship medals will be awarded at the Olympic Games )

• World Championship gold medals in 1997, pushing, 130 kg - 1999, Snatch, 105 kg - 1999, pushing, 130 kg
• World Championship silver medals: 1997, Snatch, 100 kg

National competitions

(if known)