Zeng Guoqiang

Zeng Guoqiang (Chinese曾 国 强, Pinyin Zeng Guoqiang; born March 18, 1965 in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China) is a former Chinese weightlifter. He was 1984 Olympic champion in the flyweight

Career

Zeng Guoqiang began in 1976 in a sports school of the former weightlifter stronghold Dongguan with the weight lifting. In 1981 he was appointed to the provincial team of Guangdong. In 1983, he joined the Chinese People's Army and was in the same year also a member of the Chinese national team of weightlifters.

In 1983, he also denied his first major international competition. He participated in the Junior World Championship in Cairo. In the flyweight he made there in a duel 222.5 kg ( 102.5 to 120 ), with which he, behind Neno Tersziiski from Bulgaria, 257.5 kg ( 112.5 to 145 ) and Bernard Piekorz from Poland, 230 kg ( 102 5-127.5 ) finished 3rd.

In 1984 he was Asia - flyweight champion. About this competition, no further details are known. In the same year he was also used at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, where he could take advantage of the opportunity and in the absence of most of the Eastern Bloc lift 235 kg ( 105-130 ) ahead of his compatriot Zhou Peishun, which is also 235 kg (107 0.5 to 127, 5 ) generated in a duel, Olympic champion in the flyweight was. At the same time he also became world champion in single combat and thrusting. He was at that time only 19 years old and the first Chinese weightlifter who won an Olympic gold medal.

In 1985, he also took to the World Cup in Södertälje, Sweden and some came there flyweight with 242.5 kg ( 107.5 to 135 ) behind Sewdalin Marinov from Bulgaria, 252.5 kg ( 112.5 to 140 ) on the second Place. In 1986, he finished at the Asian Games in Seoul bantamweight 2nd place behind compatriot He Yingqian.

After this match he took no further part in more international championships. About his future is not known.

International success

World Cup individual medals

  • World Championship gold medals: 1984/Stoßen
  • World Championship silver medals: 1985/Stoßen
  • World Cup bronze medals: 1984/Reißen

Notes

  • All competitions in a duel, consisting of tearing and piercing,
  • OS = The Olympic Games,
  • WM = World Championship,
  • Flyweight, then to 52 kg body weight

Swell

  • Journal athletics,
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
  • Website: " sports.123.com "
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