Yao Jingyuan
Yao Jingyuan ( born June 14, 1958 in Yingkou, Liaoning Province, China) is a former Chinese weightlifter. He was 1984 Olympic champion in the lightweight.
Career
Yao Jingyuan began as a teenager in 1973 in a school team of Yingkou with the weight lifting. Due to his good performances he came soon after in the team's Liaoning Province and 1979 in the Chinese national team of weightlifters. At a size of 1.64 meters, he started as an adult always in the lightweight weight class that had their weight limit 67.5 kg body weight at the time.
His first performance, which is known he scored during a struggle countries of China against the Federal Republic of Germany on April 18, 1984 in Hangzhou, where he scored in single combat 272.5 kg ( 112.5 to 160 ). Shortly after he arrived at the Chinese Championships in the lightweight 280 kg ( 120-160 ) behind Chao Xinmin, 295 kg, to 2nd place.
Yao Jingyuan finished 1979 in the Asian championship in Tokyo with 292.5 kg ( 125 to 167.5 ) behind Hirai from Japan, who scored 295 kg ( 132.5 to 162.5 ) and before the North Koreans Li Gwang - Ju, 290 kg ( 130-160), the 2nd place. He was already used in 1979 at the World Championships in Salonika and came there with 295 kg ( 122.5 to 172.5 ) on the 7th Place. With its power and jerk of 172.5 kilograms but he won a world championship bronze medal.
In 1980, he was unable to attend the Olympic Games in Moscow because these games were boycotted by China for political reasons. He improved this year but his personal best in a duel with an internally tournament in Shanghai on 312.5 kg ( 137.5 to 175 ). In 1981 he started again at the World Championships, which took place in Lille and managed there in the snatch 132.5 kg. In pushing him there, however, underwent three failed attempts, so he remained unplaced at this World Cup without a valid duel result.
1982 won Yao Jingyuan at the Asian Games in New Delhi in lightweight with 307.5 kg before the Japanese Shimaya and his compatriot Chao Xinmin. At the World Championships this year in Ljubljana but was not used.
At the World Championships 1983 in Moscow, at the first time Chinese athletes back in the Soviet Union went after many years at the start, he came up with 315 kg ( 140-175 ) on the 5th Place. In 1984, then followed the biggest success in the career of Yao Jingyuan, because he was in Los Angeles Olympic champion at lightweight. He scored there in a duel 320 kg ( 142.5 to 177.5 ) with whom he before Andrei Socaci, Romania, 312.5 kg ( 142.5 to 170 ) and Jouni Gronman from Finland, 312.5 kg ( 140-172, 5 ) won. At the same time he became world champion in single combat and thrusting.
Yoa Jingyuan continued after his Olympic victory in his career still continued, finishing at the World Championships in 1985 in Södertälje in lightweight 315 kg ( 140-175 ) the 3rd place behind Mikhail Petrov, 335 kg ( 145-190 ) and Veselin Galabarow, 330 kg ( 150-180 ), both from Bulgaria.
In 1986, he won finally at the Asian Games in Seoul at lightweight before his compatriot Lin Xiangkui and Kim Ki -Wong, South Korea. The benefits of this championship are not known.
After that, he recorded more at international championships in no winners list.
International success
World Cup individual medals
- World Championship gold medals: 1984/Stoßen
- World Championship silver medals: 1984/Reißen
- World Cup bronze medals: 1979/Stoßen - 1985/Stoßen
Chinese Championships
(if known)
Swell
- Journal athletics,
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
- Website " www.sports123.com "