He Yingqiang

He Yingqiang (Chinese何英强/何英强, Pinyin Hé Yingqiang; born May 25, 1965 in Yunan, Guangdong Province) is a former Chinese weightlifter. He won a silver and a bronze medal in 1992 at the Olympic Games in 1988.

Career

He Yingqiang began as a teenager in 1977 at a sports school in Yunan with the weight lifting. In 1978 he was included in the province of Guangdong Team and 1983 he was appointed to the Chinese national team of weightlifters. He was very easy and started as a junior in the flyweight class, later it grew at a size of 1.60 meters into the Bantam or the spring weight.

In 1981 he was Chinese junior flyweight champion, which in 1982 he added the title of a Chinese master of the seniors in the same weight class. In 1983 he was employed at the Asian Championships in flyweight. Its exact placement in a duel is not known, but it is known that he won the Asian Championship title in bumping. It was in 1983 already used in the Senior World Championships in Moscow. He started there in the flyweight and achieved a duel capacity of 235 kg ( 102.5 to 132.5 ). With this performance, he finished 8th place.

1984 He won Yingqiang at the Asian Championship title in the snatch. At the Junior World Championships in Lignano / Italy he scored Flyweight 237.5 kg ( 105 to 132.5 ) and thus the same performance as the winner Bernard Piekorz from Poland, but was a few grams lighter than he and thus Junior World Champion been. For He was the 2nd place. Interestingly, both achieved Piekorz and He Yingqiang in a duel 2.5 kg more than the Olympic champion in 1984 in Los Angeles Zeng Guoqiang, who came there to 235 kg.

1985 He won Yingqiang at the World Championships in Södertälje, for the first time starting in the bantamweight, 270 kg ( 120-150 ) both in combat and in the two individual disciplines bronze medals. The winner was there the Bulgarian Neno Terziiski 280 kg ( 122.5 to 157.5 ) before starting the USSR Armenians Oksen Mirzoyan, who also came to 280 kg ( 122.5 to 157.5 ). In 1986, he increased enormously in the World Championships in Sofia 287.5 kg ( 127.5 to 160 ), with which he, behind Mitko Grablew, Bulgaria, 290 kg ( 127.5 to 162.5 ), but before Oksen Mirsojan 285 kg ( 125-160 ) took 2nd place. In tearing he was doing with the world champion made ​​by him 127.5 kg. This was the second world title, according to Wu Shude, who had become 1984 World Champion in pushing the a Chinese weightlifter won in the history of weight lifting. Before the World Championships in Sofia Yingqiang He had also won at the Asian Games 1986 in Seoul bantamweight before the Olympic champion from 1984 flyweight, his compatriot Zeng Guoqiang and Dirdja Wihardja from Indonesia.

At the 1987 World Championships in Ostrava he underwent three failed attempts in the snatch, so that he was unable to duel championship. In thrusting he came to 160 kg, which he, Vice World Champion was behind Neno Terziiski who came to 162.5 kg. The then held Chinese National Games in Guangzhou, he then turned just in the snatch with 133.5 kg on a new world record. It was the only world record he achieved in his career.

At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, he won his duel performance of 287.5 kg ( 125 to 162.5 ) behind Oksen Mirzoyan, who came to 292.5 kg, the silver medal. Mitko Grablew who had actually won with 295 kg in a duel, was later, but still in Seoul, exposed as a doper. The gold medal was taken from him.

In 1989, He Yingqiang at the World Championships in Athens with 280 kg ( 125-155 ) on the 3rd place. He had two failed attempts in pushing 162.5 kg. Had he succeeded in one of these attempts, he would be with 287.5 kg before Hafiz Suleymanow, USSR, 287.5 kg ( 130 to 157.5 ) and Liu Shoubin, China, 285 kg ( 130-155 ) became world champion in single combat. In 1990 he was again in Beijing winner. During the Asian Games in the featherweight before the North Koreans Li Jae -Sun and Liao Hsingchou from Thailand His duel performance of this competition is not known. At the World Championships in Budapest in 1990, he started back in the bantamweight and had to give his compatriot Liu Shoubin, who also scored 285 kg ( 130-155 ), beaten because of its slightly higher body weight there in a duel with 285 kg ( 125-160 ). In thrusting he was with those obtained by him 160 kg but world champion.

In 1991, He moved permanently Yingqiang in the featherweight and came in this weight class at the World Championships in Donaueschingen with 292.5 kg ( 132.5 to 160 ) to third place behind Naim Suleymanoglu, Turkey, 310 kg ( 137.5 to 172, 5) and Jurik Sarkisyan, USSR, of 302.5 kg ( 132.5 to 170 ) achieved. 1992, then the last year of competition in the career of him. He started this year in Barcelona for a second time in the Olympics, where she won featherweight 295 kg ( 130-165 ) the bronze medal behind Naim Suleymanoglu, 320 kg ( 142.5 to 177.5 ) and Nikolaj Peschalow from Bulgaria, 305 kg ( 137.5 to 167.5 ) achieved.

He Yingqiang had when he ended his international career in 1992, until then the longest-lasting career (10 years) of a Chinese weightlifter behind. He won at the Olympics and World Championships, the Junior World Championships in 1984 in the calculation, a total of three gold medals, five silver medals and twelve bronze medals for a total of 20 medals. What, however, was not granted to him, was an Olympic gold medal or world championship title in a duel.

International success

World Cup individual medals

  • World Championship gold medals: 1984/Stoßen/Junioren - 1986/Reißen - 1990/Stoßen
  • World Championship silver medals: 1987/Stoßen - 1991/Reißen
  • World Cup bronze medals: 1984/Reißen/Junioren - 1985/Reißen - 1985/Stoßen - 1986/Stoßen - 1989/Reißen - 1990/Reißen - 1991/Stoßen

World Record

Notes

  • All competitions in a duel, consisting of tearing and piercing,
  • OS = The Olympic Games,
  • WM = World Championship,
  • Flyweight, then to 52 kg bantamweight, then to 56 kg Featherweight, then up to 60 kg body weight,
  • Since 1988, the Olympic Games are no longer the same as the World Cup

Swell

  • Journal athletics,
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
  • Website " sports123.com "
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