Chen Wei-Ling

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Chen Wei-Ling ( Chinese  陳 葦 綾 , Pinyin Chén Wěilíng ; born January 4, 1982 in Tainan ) is a Taiwanese athlete who has achieved excellent international success in the heavy athletic sports of powerlifting and weightlifting .

Career

At the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing in 2008 Wei-Ling started for the team “ Chinese Taipei ” in the 48 kg category of women in weightlifting and after the disqualification of the doped Turkish woman Sibel Özkan, she finished 2nd and thus won the silver medal. In Powerlifting (Association: IPF ) she holds several all-time world records; Her strengths are the deadlift and the squat, while the bench press is a relative weakness .

Powerlifting

44 kg class for women

  • Squat : All-time record 171.5 kg with a body weight of 43.8 kg, achieved on May 27, 2005 in Ylitornio , Finland
  • Deadlift : All-time record 175.0 kg at 43.7 kg body weight, achieved on May 23, 2003 in Chicago, Illinois
  • Triathlon (squat, bench press, deadlift): Third in the 2003 IPF World Yearly Best List with 385.0 kg (155.0 kg + 65.0 kg + 165.0 kg), achieved on May 22, 2003 in Chicago
  • Three-way battle: world best performance of the juniors (up to 23 years) with 402.5 kg (171.5 kg + 62.5 kg + 170.0 kg), achieved on May 27, 2005 in Ylitornio, Finland - thus also second on the IPF world annual best list 2005 the seniors

48 kg class for women

  • Squat: third best performance of all time (as of August 17, 2008) with 197.5 kg, i.e. 4.2 times your own body weight (47 kg); the IPF world record was (as of August 17, 2008) at 200 kg. Chen Wei-Ling improved this world record on July 25, 2009 to 207.5 kg.
  • Deadlift: All-time record 185.0 kg, achieved on October 15, 2007 in Sölden (Ötztal) , Austria. World record 195.0 kg on July 25, 2009.
  • Three-way battle: Third in the IPF world annual best list 2006 with 422.5 kg (175.0 kg + 70.0 kg + 177.5 kg), achieved on November 6, 2006 in Stavanger
  • Three-way battle: The three-way battle set up in Sölden on October 15, 2007 with 457.5 kg (197.5 kg + 75.0 kg + 185.0 kg) was a world record at the time; This record was surpassed on June 6, 2008 by the Japanese Yukako Fukushima with 465.0 kg in Kobe, born in 1970, and increased to 468.5 kg on November 3, 2008 in St. John's ( Canada ). Chen Wei-Ling clearly exceeded this value on July 25, 2009 at the World Games with 495.0 kg and a body weight of 46.75 kg.

52 kg class for women

  • At the World Championships of the IPF 2008 in St. Johns (Canada), she competed in the 52 kg class, although with a body weight of 48.60 kg she could almost have started in the 48 kg class. With 207.5 kg for the squat, 82.5 kg for the bench press and 190.0 kg for the deadlift, she achieved a three-way result of 480.0 kg and displaced the 2.68 kg heavier Indonesian Hartati Sri to second with the same performance Space.

World Games

  • At the World Games held in Duisburg in 2005 , Chen Wei-Ling achieved the bronze medal behind Olesja Lafina from Russia and Olena Dmytruk from the Ukraine in the women's lightweight, which at this event included the weight class from 44 kg to 52 kg . In 2009 she won gold at the World Games in Kaohsiung in the lightweight - up to 52 kg body weight - ahead of the Japanese Yukako Fukushima and the Indonesian Sri Hartani and set new - currently (July 30, 2009) not yet officially confirmed - world records in the 48- kg class, her body weight was 46.75 kg; Overall, she improved the world best in the squat three times and twice for the deadlift in this competition. In the same competition, Chou Yi Ju from Taiwan, with a body weight of 50.45 kg, twice achieved the world best performance in the deadlift of the 52 kg class.

Weightlifting

Chen Wei-Ling competed for her country in the Olympic Games in 2004 and 2008 in the 48 kg weightlifting class. In 2004 she reached the 11th place with 170 kg (75.0 kg + 95.0 kg) in a duel, in 2008 in Beijing with 196 kg (84 kg + 112 kg) originally third place (body weight 47.11 kg); the Korean Junghwa Im achieved the same duel performance (86 kg + 110 kg), but was ranked behind Chen because of her higher body weight (47.62 kg). Chen only had three valid attempts at this competition. In the snatch she failed twice at 87 kg and in the push at 115 kg. Due to the doping offenses of Sibel Özkan and Chen Xiexia, who were originally placed in front of her, Chen Wei-Ling has now moved up to the silver rank, the gold medal has not yet been awarded again.

At the World Championships, she rose from 2006 with 13th place for 160 kg (70 kg + 90 kg) over 11th place in 2007 for the duel performance of 172 kg (76 kg + 96 kg) to 4th place with 196 kg (84th place) kg + 112 kg) in 2009 - exactly the same performance that she achieved at the 2008 Olympic Games. At the 2010 World Championships , she took 5th place in the duel with 185 kg (= 80 kg + 105 kg).

At the Asian Championships in Dubai in 2005 she reached 4th place in all three ratings (181 kg = 78 kg + 103 kg) and won in Taldykorgan (Kazakhstan) with 200 kg duel performance (87 kg + 113 kg) well ahead of the Chinese Chen Xiexia , who was doped at the 2008 Olympics.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weightlifter Sibel Özkan has to give back the silver medal for doping. Doping: Weightlifter loses silver www.sport1.de, July 22, 2016; accessed on August 16, 2016
  2. ↑ Doping at the 2008 Olympics: Another 15 weightlifters tested positive . spiegel.de, August 24, 2016; accessed on September 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Chen Wei-Ling
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 陈 苇 绫; Chén Wěilíng
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Tainan