Li Fengying

Li Fengying ( Chinese  黎 鋒 英  /  黎 锋 英 , Pinyin Lí Fēngyīng , born January 23, 1975 ) is a Taiwanese weightlifter.

Career

Li Fengying was born in Hunan Province , People's Republic of China . She started lifting weights at the age of 14 and joined the Chinese national team through the Hunan provincial selection. In 1994 she started for the People's Republic of China at the World Championships in Istanbul in the class up to 54 kg body weight, where she finished second behind the Indian Karnam Malleswari . At this world championship, she met a coach of the Taiwanese national weightlifting team, Chung Yung-Chi, know and love, moved to Taiwan and married him. From 1995 to 1997 she was not active and became a mother during this time. However, she kept fit and resumed weightlifting. In 1999 she surprised the weightlifting world when she became world champion in Athens . Li Fengying is therefore the only weightlifter who competed and won medals for both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan).

International success / duel

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, KG = body weight)

• 1994, 2nd place , World Championships in Istanbul , up to 54 kg body weight, with 195 kg, behind Karnam Malleswari , India , 197.5 kg and in front of Janeta Georgiewa, Bulgaria , 185 kg;
• 1998, 2nd place , Asian Games in Bangkok , up to 53 kg body weight, with 202.5 kg, behind Yang Xia, China, 212.5 kg and in front of Swe Swe Win, Myanmar , 197.5 kg;
• 1999, 1st place , World Championships in Athens , up to 53 kg body weight, with 215 kg, ahead of Binti Slamet Winarni, Indonesia , 202.5 kg and Wang Xiufen, China, 197.5 kg;
• 2000, silver medal , OS in Sydney , up to 53 kg body weight, with 212.5 kg, behind Yang Xia, 225 kg and in front of Binti Slamet Winarni, 202.5 kg;
• 2001, 1st place , World Championships in Antalya , up to 53 kg body weight, with 210 kg, ahead of Qiu Hongxia, China, 207.5 kg and Alexandra Escobar, Ecuador , 205 kg;
• 2002 unplaziert , Asian Games in Busan , to 53 kg, job because of injury after tearing;
• 2003, unplaced , World Championships in Vancouver , up to 58 kg body weight, abandoned due to injury when tearing

Medals (individual disciplines)

(at OS no more World Cup medals are awarded)

• World Cup gold medals: 1994, snatch, 87.5 kg - 1999, snatch, 95 kg - 1999, jerk, 121.5 kg - 2001, snatch, 95 kg
• World Cup silver medals: 1994, push, 107.5 kg - 2001, push, 115 kg

World records

in tears:

• 98 kg, 2000, up to 53 kg body weight

in pushing:

• 121 kg, 1999, up to 53 kg body weight,
• 121.5 kg, 1999, up to 53 kg body weight