Liu Chunhong
Liu Chunhong (Chinese刘春红, Pinyin Liú Chunhong, born January 29, 1983 in Yantai ) is a Chinese weightlifter of the 69 kg weight class that has internationally in 2003 and 2005 also contested in the 75 kg class competitions.
Career
Liu Chunchong comes from Yantai in the Chinese province of Shandong. She began as a teenager in the Sports School of Yantai City with Judo, but changed in 1996 with 13 years of weightlifting. The 1.65 m tall athlete qualified by good performances in the regional area in 1998 for the province of Shandong and selection came in 2002 in the Chinese national team. In the same year, she became Junior World Champion (U 20) is further used in the weight category up to 69 kg with a duel capacity of 255 kg ( 107.5 to 147.5 ) and was also in the Women's World Cup in Warsaw. There you underwent while in the snatch three failed attempts, so that they remained without power duel, but in the single discipline bumping it reached 147.5 kg and thus won the silver medal.
In 2003 Liu Chunhong at the Junior World Championship (U 20) in Hermosilo in the weight class up to 75 kg. It reached this 260 kg ( 112.5 to 147.5 ) in a duel, but had surprisingly the Egyptian Nahla Mohamed R. beaten that came to € 262.5 kg ( 115 to 147.5 ). In the Women's World Cup 2003 in Vancouver, she started back in the weight category up to 69 kg and won there with a duel output of 270 kg ( 120-150 ). Even in the individual disciplines tearing and piercing, she won the gold medal.
In 2004, she was with a capacity of 275 kg ( 122.5 to 152.5 ) in the weight class up to 69 kg Olympic champion in front of the Hungarian Eszter Krutzler, which reached 262.5 kg ( 117.5 to 145 ).
2005 Liu Chunhong in Busan Junior World Champion ( Under 23 ) in the weight class up to 75 kg body weight. She referred Podobedowa Svetlana from Russia, and the 262 kg ( 115-147 ) reached the 2nd place. A few months späger she was in Doha also world champion of the ladies in the weight class up to 75 kg with the fantastic duel output of 285 kg ( 126-159 ). But you won it only because of their significantly lower body weight before the Russian Natalya Sabolotnaja who also came to 285 kg ( 130-155 ). The third place winner of this contest, Svetlana Podobedowa, reached an excellent performance with 279 kg ( 124-155 ).
In the 2006 World Cup in Santo Domingo Liu Chunhong approached not in good shape. She managed only 111 kg in the snatch, with which they, after all won a silver medal. In poking their underwent three failed attempts, so that they remained without power duel. In far better shape she was in the 2007 World Championships in Chiang Mai / Thailand. She raised there in the weight category to 69 kg in 271 kg ( 121-150 ), but the very good predisposed Russian Oksana Sliwenko that to 276 kg ( 120-156 ) came had to admit defeat.
The best competition in their career gave Liu Chunhong then off at the Olympic Games in Beijing. With the world record in the duel of 286 kg ( 128-158 ) they won in the weight category up to 69 kg again the gold medal. Oksana Sliwenko who won the silver medal with 255 kg ( 115-140 ), was at the end of over 30 kg behind her.
After this triumphant victory Liu Chunhong never reached their form of 2008. Yet you came at the 2009 World Championships in Goyang / South Korea, reached in the weight class up to 69 kg only 245 kg ( 110-135 ) and got away with it only on the 4th Place. After dena sien play 2010 in Guangzhou, where she won again at 242 kg ( 110-132 ), she therefore resigned.
International success / Mehrkampf
Medals individual disciplines
- World Championship gold medals: 2003/Reißen, 2003/Stoßen, 2005/Stoßen, 2007/Reißen
- World Championship silver medal: 2002/Stoßen, 2005/Reißen, 2006/Reißen, 2007/Stoßen
Chinese Championships
- 2006 1st place, 75 kg, 265 kg before you Yeying, 252 kg, and Yang Yuewei, 248 kg
World Records
In the weight category to 69 kg body weight:
In the snatch:
2002, 115.5 kg - 2003, 116 kg - 2003, 117.5 kg - 2003, 118 kg - 2003, 120 kg - 2004, 122.5 kg
In pushing:
2002, 144 kg - 2002, 147.5 kg - 2002, 148 kg - 2003, 148.5 kg - 2003, 150 kg - 2004 - 150.5 kg - 2004, 152.5 kg - 2004, 153 kg
In a duel:
2002, 260 kg - 2002, 262.5 kg - 2003, 265 kg - 2003, 267.5 kg - 2003, 270 kg - 2004, 275 kg
In the weight class up to 75 kg body weight:
In the snatch:
2005, 126 kg
In pushing:
2005, 159 kg
In a duel:
2005, 285 kg
Notes
- All competitions in a duel, consisting of tearing and piercing
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup