Chen Jingkai

Chen Jingkai (Tschen Tsching-Kai; * December 1, 1935 , † December 6, 2010 ) was a Chinese weightlifter .

Career

In 1936, three Chinese weightlifters took part in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. It was the first time in weightlifting history - and the last time until the mid-1950s - that Chinese weightlifters took part in an international championship.

In the mid-1950s, Chinese weightlifters became active again, including Chen Jingkai (in the "Tschen Tsching-Kai"). In addition to this athlete, it was Huan Chanju and Chao Chinhue who also advanced to the top of the world at that time.

The Chinese Weightlifting Association was not part of the World Weightlifting Association at the time, which was then known as the FIHC, and it was not part of the IOC either. For this reason, the Chinese athletes could not participate in the international championships (world championships) and the Olympic Games. The world records that they set were not recognized by the FIHC and are therefore only unofficial.

Chen Jingkai was born in 1935 in a small village in Guangdong Province . As a child he did a lot of sports such as basketball, soccer and gymnastics. Due to his physique, he was only 1.49 m tall and stocky as an adult, but he could not get very far in these sports. From the age of 14, he attended a middle school in Guangzhou , where he had the opportunity to train weightlifting. After a short time he managed as a bantamweight 245 kg in the Olympic three-way fight and won a provincial championship.

In 1952, he left Guangzhou and went back to his home village, where he no longer had the opportunity to do weightlifting. In 1955 he joined the army and began regular training there again. In the army he reached the rank of officer and became a lieutenant. There he came under the wing of the Russian coach Pustewoij, who formed him into a strong athlete within a very short time.

In 1956 he became the first Chinese champion in Shanghai . On the occasion of the bantamweight he exceeded the world record of the American Charles Vinci by 0.5 kg in pushing with 133 kg. In 1956 an international match between the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union also took place in Beijing . Chen Jingkai managed on this occasion in featherweight 307.5 kg (90-85-132.5) and was defeated there by the Olympic champion of 1952 Ivan Udodow , who scored 340 kg (105-105-130). It was already noticeable at the beginning of Chen Jingkai's career that he showed outstanding performance, especially in pushing, but could not quite keep up with the world's elite in the other two disciplines of pushing and snatching. His performances were only mediocre, especially at the tear. It stayed that way throughout his career.

In the course of 1956, he achieved two more achievements in pushing with 135 kg and 137.5 kg, which were above the official FIHC world record.

In 1957, Chen Jingkai scored 322.5 kg (95-87.5-140) at an international tournament in Moscow in the Olympic three-way fight, winning ahead of Albert Chalfin, USSR, 320 kg and Kemal Mahgoub , Egypt , 305 kg. The pushing performance of 140 kg would have been a new world record. However, the dumbbell only weighed 139.5 kg when it was weighed, so that only this weight would have been a world record.

At the beginning of 1958, Chen Jingkai improved his Chinese record in the Olympic three-way fight to 330 kg (100-95-135). He then won the Bantamweight Grand Prix of Moscow with 317.5 kg (92.5-90-135) ahead of the Russians Ulyanov, 315 kg a. Katschegarow, 302.5 kg. In the fall of 1958 he started in Leipzig in the so-called. Military Spartakiad and increased there bantamweight 332.5 kg (97,5-95-140) and finished with it behind the Olympic champion and multiple world champion Wladimir Stogow , the 335 kg (105-100-135) achieved 2nd place. In an additional attempt he improved the world record in pushing to 140.5 kg (unofficial world record).

In 1959 he again took part in the Moscow Grand Prix , where his featherweight was 350 kg (107.5-95-147.5), which put him behind Yevgeny Minajew , USSR, 360 kg (115-107.5-137 , 5) took 2nd place. At this event, too, he hit a new unofficial world record in an additional attempt with 148 kg.

From 1960 the Chinese weightlifters, including Chen Jingkai, could no longer compete in events in the Soviet Union and in most other so-called Eastern Bloc countries. The reason was China's enmity with the Soviet Union.

Chen Jingkai was still very active in the People's Republic of China for a few years. In 1961 he set an unofficial world record in jerking the featherweight in Beijing with 148.5. From this year it is also known that he again became the Chinese featherweight champion with 340 kg (110-82.5-137.5). His best performance this year was featherweight at 345 kg (100-97.5-147.5).

The following achievements are known from the following years:

• 1963, world record in Beijing in pushing the featherweight with 151 kg and 345 kg (105-95-145) in the Olympic three-way fight,
• 1964; World record in Shanghai in pushing the featherweight with 151.5 kg,
• 1965, personal best in the Olympic three-way battle with 357.5 kg

From the years after 1965, Chen Jingkai is no longer known to have performed. Like all Chinese sports, weightlifting fell into disrepute during the years of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The weightlifters could not do their sport for years and had to do heavy factory work. But since 1973 there was weightlifting again in China. From then on, Chen Jingkai worked as a trainer and trained a. a. also his younger brother Chen Manlin . This group, born in 1942, was even able to take part in world championships in 1974 and 1977, after China was admitted to the international weightlifting federation FIHC, now IWF, in 1974. In 1977, Chen Manlin even won the bronze medal in the bantamweight duel at the World Championships in Stuttgart . In later years, Chen Jingkai will also go abroad, u. a. have worked as a trainer in Mexico .

Well-known competitions

year	space	competition	Weight class
1956	1.	chinese championship	Bantam
1957	1.	Intern. Tournament in Moscow	Bantam	with 322.5 kg (95-87.5-140), before Albert Chalfin, USSR , 320 kg a. Kemal Mahgoub , Egypt , 305 kg
1958	1.	Moscow Grand Prix	Bantam	with 317.5 kg (92.5-90-135), before Stefan Uljanow, USSR, 315 kg (100-95-120) and B. Kachegarow, USSR, 302.5 kg
1958	2.	Military Spartakiade in Leipzig	Bantam	with 332.5 kg (97.5-95-140), behind Wladimir Stogow , USSR, 335 kg (105-100-135), in front of Jankowski, Poland , 307.5 kg
1959	2.	Moscow Grand Prix	feather	with 350 kg (107.5-95-147.5), behind Yevgeny Minajew , USSR, 360 kg (115-107.5-137.5)
1961	1.	chinese championships	feather	with 340 kg (110-92.5-137.5)

Unofficial world records

date	place	discipline	Weight class	power
7.6.56	Shanghai	Bump	Bantam	133 kg
11/11/56	Canton	Bump	Bantam	135 kg
11/9/56	Shanghai	Bump	Bantam	135.5 kg
12/21/56	Tianjin	Bump	Bantam	137.5 kg
7.8.57	Moscow	Bump	Bantam	139.5 kg
10/12/57	Beijing	Bump	feather	144 kg
1958	Leipzig	Bump	Bantam	140.5 kg
1959	Moscow	Bump	feather	148 kg
1961	Beijing	Bump	feather	148.5 kg
1963	Beijing	Bump	feather	151 kg
1964	Shanghai	Bump	feather	151.5 kg

Explanations

• all competitions in the Olympic three-way fight, consisting of pushing, snatching and pushing,
• Bantam weight, back then up to 56 kg, feather weight, then up to 60 kg body weight

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1. ↑ About CJK ( zh ) Retrieved June 13, 2019.
2. ↑ Hero weightlifter this ( s ) Accessed on 2 June of 2019.

• Professional magazine Athletik , numbers: 12/1956, page 16, 4/1959 / page 5, 4/1959, page 16, 16/17/1959, page 19, 2/1960, page 9, 24/1961, page 16, 2 / 1962, page 7, 24/1962, page 16, 6/1964 / page 5, 12/1964, page 16, 20/1966, page 16

Web links

• Brief portrait of Chen Jingkai

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chen is the family name here, Jingkai is the first name.