Lu Huihui

Lu Huihui
Lü Huihui in Salzburg 2015
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	26th June 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Xinxiang , China
size	172 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	Hall : 64.34 m (world's best) Open air : 67.98 m
Trainer	Lu Gang
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 2 × Asian Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships silver Beijing 2015 66.13 m bronze London 2017 65.26 m bronze Doha 2019 65.49 m  Asian Games silver Jakarta 2018 63.16 m Asian Championships gold Doha 2019 65.83 m
last change: June 3, 2020

Lü Huihui ( Chinese  吕 會 會  /  吕 会 会 , Pinyin Lǚ Huìhuì; born June 26, 1989 in Xinxiang ) is a Chinese javelin thrower .

career path

Lü graduated from Zhengzhou University .

Athletic career

Lü Huihui gained her first international experience at the 2012 Olympic Games in London , where she finished fifth in the final with 63.70 m.

At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , she won the silver medal behind the German Katharina Molitor with a new Asian record of 66.13 m in the final , who she overtook with 67.69 m in the last attempt.

In 2016 she again took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished the final in seventh place with 64.04 m .

In 2017 Lü won the bronze medal at the World Championships in London with 65.25 m in the final .

In 2018 she improved her own Asian record to 67.69 m and won the silver medal behind her compatriot Liu Shiying at the Asian Games in Jakarta with 63.16 m . At the Continental Cup in Ostrava , Lü took third place with the Asian team, to which Lü contributed by winning over Christin Hussong in the individual. She also became a Chinese javelin champion.

In 2019, Lü took part in the Asian Championships in Doha for the first time and won there with a new championship record of 65.83 m and thus received a bye for the World Championships there in October. Before that, she improved her own Asian record in Huangshi by three centimeters to 67.72 m. At the world championships she won the bronze medal behind the Australian Kelsey-Lee Barber and her compatriot Liu with 65.49 m .

On May 29, 2020, Lü threw 64.34 m at an indoor meeting in Beijing, as far as no other javelin thrower worldwide under the hall roof.

doping

She tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide on April 27, 2013 and was banned for one year for her doping rule violation .

Personal best

(As of June 3, 2020)

Hall

64.34 m (world best) May 29, 2020 in Beijing

open air

67.98 m August 2, 2019 in Shenyang

Web links

Commons : Lü Huihui  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lu Huihui in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on Tilastopaja OY

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Official indoor world records in javelin throw are not held by World Athletics.
2. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Report: women's javelin - IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 ( English ) IAAF. October 1, 2019. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
3. ↑ Alexandra Dersch / eme / aj: Flash News of the Day - Lu Huihui as far as ever in the hall , notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, from June 3, 2020, accessed June 3, 2020

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