Chen Yanqing

Chen Yanqing

Chen Yanqing ( Chinese  陳豔青  /  陈豔青 , Pinyin Chén Yànqīng , born April 5, 1979 in Suzhou (Jiangsu) ) is a Chinese weightlifter.

Career

Chen is from Suzhou in Jiangsu Province . She started lifting weights when she was 11. After regional successes in the youth field, she became a member of the Jiangsu provincial team in 1994 and a year later a member of the Chinese national team. At the age of 18 she was the first world champion in the class up to 64 kg body weight. In 1999 she repeated this success in the class up to 58 kg body weight. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 she could not start because the People's Republic of China received only four starting places in six weight classes for women from the International Weightlifting Association. In 2001 she retired from active sports, studied at the University of Suzhou and also worked as a trainer in the provincial selection. Before the Olympic Games in Athens , however, the ambition grabbed her again and she started training again in 2003. The result was the 2004 Olympic victory in the class up to 58 kg body weight.

On August 11, 2008, Chen Yanqing repeated her Olympic victory in Beijing in the weight class up to 58 kg body weight. She achieved 106 kg in snatch and 138 kg in thrust, for a total of 244 kg. She was the first female weightlifter to become an Olympic champion for the second time. She also held the world record in pushing in the weight class up to 58 kg for many years at 140 kg.

After the 2008 Olympic Games, Chen Yanqing went to Canada to study sports management.

International successes / all-around

year	space	competition	Weight class
1997	1.	World Cup in Chiangmai / Thailand	up to 64 kg body weight	weighing 220 kg, ahead of Chen Jui-Lien , Taiwan , 225 kg and Neelamsetty Laxmi, India , 217.5 kg
1998	1.	Universities World Cup in Tel Aviv	up to 58 kg body weight	with 220 kg, before Maryse Turcotte , Canada , 200 kg and Ou Yi-Hui, Taiwan, 185 kg
1998	1.	Asia Games in Bangkok	up to 58 kg body weight	weighing 220 kg, ahead of Ri Song-Hui , North Korea , 217.5 kg and K. Suta, Indonesia , 210 kg
1999	1.	Junior World Championships in Savannah / USA	up to 58 kg body weight	weighing 232.5 kg, ahead of Fatma Kabadayi, Turkey, 195 kg and Sally Oates, USA, 182.5 kg
1999	1.	World Cup in Athens	up to 58 kg body weight	with 235 kg, ahead of Ri Song-Hui, 230 kg and Kuo Ping-Chun, Taiwan, 222.5 kg
2000	1.	Asia Games in Osaka	up to 58 kg body weight	with 230 kg
2004	gold	OS in Athens	up to 58 kg body weight	with 237.5 kg, ahead of Ri Song-Hui, 232.5 kg and Wandee Kameaim , Thailand, 230 kg
2006	1.	Asia Games in Doha	up to 58 kg body weight	with 251 kg, in front of Wandee Kameaim, Thailand, 224 kg u. Pak Hyon Suk, North Korea, 224 kg
2008	gold	OS in Beijing	up to 58 kg body weight	with 244 kg, before Maria Schainowa , Russia, 227 kg and O Jong Ae , North Korea, 226 kg

Medals individual disciplines

(Since 1988, no more World Cup medals have been awarded at the Olympic Games)

• World Championship gold medals: 1997, push, 130 kg - 1999, snatch, 105 kg - 1999, push, 130 kg
• World Cup silver medals: 1997, tear, 100 kg

National competitions

(as far as known)

year	space	competition	Weight class
2005	1.	chinese championship	up to 58 kg body weight	with 255 kg (world record)
2006	1.	chinese championship	up to 58 kg body weight	with 242 kg, before Chen Xiuying, 233 kg and Hong Yonghong, 231 kg
2008	1.	chinese championship	up to 58 kg body weight	with 245 kg (108-137), before Liu Xia, 238 kg (105-133) and the like. Hong Maiqiu, 235 kg (100-135)

Web links

• portrait
• Photo Beijing 2008
• Photo Beijing 2008
• Chen Yanqing in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

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, Yanqing is the first name.