Meng Lili

Meng Lili (Chinese孟丽丽/孟丽丽, Pinyin Meng Lili, born December 28, 1979 in Xintai, Tai'an, Shandong ) is a Chinese wrestler alumnae. It was 2001 and 2005 world champion in the weight class up to 62 or 67 kg body weight. Since the end of her career she has worked as a trainer.

Career

Meng Lili began at the age of 16 years in 1995 with the rings. She was a member of the wrestling clubs Shandong and was trained by Sun Shuling.

Due to the fact that they only began at age 16 with the rings, she has recorded no international missions in the junior age. Your first start in an international championship she graduated in 1999 at the Women's Championship in Tashkent. She arrived there in the weight class up to 62 kg on the 3rd place. In the same year she started already at the World Championships in the Swedish soil / Hildersborg. They defeated in the same weight class, Natalya Ivanova, Russia, Lene Aanes, Norway, Marisa Azzolini, Brazil, Unise Hurtado, Venezuela and Lotta Andersson from Sweden and was thus in the final battle against Ayako Shoda of Japan, against which they lost just on points. It was so Vice World Champion.

In 2000, Mang Lili occupied at the Asian Championships in Seoul 2nd place, where they again lost the final against Ayako Shoda. In 2001, she also reached at the East Asian Games in Osaka in the weight class up to 62 kg 2nd place. In Osaka, they lost the final against Rena Iwama from Japan. At the World Championships this year in Sofia she succeeded then the first really big success, because she was there with wins over Sara McMann, United States, Rena Iwama, Olga Chilko, Belarus, Stephanie Groß, Germany and Diletta Giampiccolo, Italy World Champion.

As of 2002 grew Meng Lili in their own country in Xu Haiyan an equivalent competitor, has been widely used in the following years at the international championships instead of her. So it was at the World Championships in 2002 and 2003. In 2004, Meng Lili sat down in China but in the weight class up to 63 kg again by. She qualified at a tournament in Tunis with a first space in front of Sara Eriksson, Sweden, Natalia Ivanova, Tajikistan and Stephanie Large for the Olympic Games in Athens. In Athens she lost like their first fight against Sara McMann. In accordance with the former Regulations they could then fight only the 9th place with a victory over Viola Yanik from Canada.

At the Asia Championships 2005 in Wuhan, she lost in the weight class up to 63 kg compared Kaori Icho of Japan and finished behind this and Geetika Jachar from India 3rd place. At the World Championship in 2005, it rose in the weight class up to 67 kg, where she won with victories over Jelena Perepelkina, Russia, Masira Admiraal, Netherlands, Naranchimeg Gelegjamts, Mongolia and Martine Dugrenier, Canada their second world title.

In the years 2006 and 2007 and at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was used in their weight class Xu Haiyan. Meng Lili was but at the World Championships 2008 in Tokyo there and won there with wins over Zavela Gloria Lugo, Venezuela, losing to Nishimaki million, Japan and victory over Paulina Grabowska, Poland and Olesja Samula, Azerbaijan a bronze medal.

2009 ended Meng Lili their international wrestler 's career.

International success

Notes

• All competitions in free style
• OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup

Swell

• Journal The Ringer
• Website " Foeldeak Wrestling Database "