Liu Chunhong

Liu Chunhong ( Chinese  刘春红 , Pinyin Liú Chūnhóng , born January 29, 1985 in Yantai ) is a former Chinese weightlifter in the 69 kg weight class, who competed internationally in 2003 and 2005 in the 75 kg class.

Career

Liu Chunchong comes from Yantai in the Chinese province of Shandong . She started judo as a teenager in the Yantai City Sports School , but switched to weightlifting in 1996 at the age of 13 . The 1.65 m tall athlete qualified for the Shandong provincial selection in 1998 thanks to good performances in the regional area and joined the Chinese national team in 2002. In the same year she was junior world champion (U 20) in the weight class up to 69 kg with a duel of 255 kg (107.5-147.5) and was also used at the women's world championships in Warsaw. There she made three failed attempts while snapping, so that she remained without a duel, but in the individual discipline pushing she reached 147.5 kg and thus won the silver medal.

In 2003 Liu Chunhong started at the Junior World Championship (U 20) in Hermosilo in the weight class up to 75 kg. She reached 260 kg (112.5-147.5) in a duel, but surprisingly had to admit defeat to the Egyptian Nahla R. Mohamed, who came to 262.5 kg (115-147.5). At the 2003 Women's World Championships in Vancouver, she started again in the weight class up to 69 kg and won there with a duel of 270 kg (120-150). She also won the gold medal in the individual disciplines of snatching and pushing. In 2004 she was with a performance of 275 kg (122.5-152.5) ​​in the weight class up to 69 kg Olympic champion before the Hungarian Eszter Krutzler , who reached 262.5 kg (117.5-145).

In 2005 Liu Chunhong became Junior World Champion (U 23) in Busan in the weight class up to 75 kg body weight. She referred Svetlana Podobedowa from Russia, who reached 262 kg (115-147), on the 2nd place. A few months later in Doha she also became the women's world champion in the weight class up to 75 kg with a fantastic duel of 285 kg (126-159). But she only won because of her significantly lower body weight in front of the Russian Natalja Sabolotnaja , who also came to 285 kg (130–155). The third place in this competition, Svetlana Podobedowa, achieved an excellent performance with 279 kg (124–155).

At the 2006 World Cup in Santo Domingo, Liu Chunhong was not in good shape. She managed only 111 kg in the snatch, with which she won a silver medal. In pushing she made three failed attempts, so that she remained without a duel. She was in much better shape at the 2007 World Cup in Chiang Mai / Thailand. She lifted there in the weight class up to 69 kg in a duel 271 kg (121-150), but had to admit defeat to the very well-disposed Russian Oksana Slivenko , who came to 276 kg (120-156).

In the years that followed, its shape collapsed significantly. She took part in the 2009 World Championships in Goyang / South Korea, reached only 245 kg (110-135) in the weight class up to 69 kg and thus only came in 4th place. After the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, where she won again with 242 kg (110-132), she therefore resigned.

doping

The series of post-doping tests carried out in 2016 on the stored samples from the 2008 Olympic Games revealed that Liu Chunhong had been doped at the time. She was disqualified and her first place was canceled.

International successes / all-around

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2002	1.	Qatar Grand Prix	up to 69 kg	with 255 kg, ahead of Huang Shi-Chun, Taiwan, 225 kg and Wanda Maslowska, Ukraine , 222.5 kg
2002	1.	Junior World Championship (U 20)	up to 69 kg	with 255 kg (107.5–147.5), before Tuka Andela Medina, Colombia, 232.5 kg (107.5–125) and Nahla R. Mohamed, Egypt, 230 kg (102.5–127.5)
2002	unpl.	World Cup in Warsaw	up to 69 kg	after three unsuccessful attempts in snapping, 147.5 kg in pushing, without a duel
2002	1.	Asian games in Busan	up to 69 kg	with 262.5 kg, in front of Pawina Thongsuk , Thailand , 260 kg and Mya Sando Oo, Myanmar , 250 kg
2003	2.	Junior World Championships (U 20) in Hermosilo	up to 75 kg	with 260 kg (112.5–147.5), behind Nahla R. Mohamed, 262.5 kg (115–147.5), in front of Sibel Şimşek , Turkey, 230 kg (100–130)
2003	1.	World Cup in Vancouver	up to 69 kg	with 270 kg (120–150), ahead of Eszter Krutzler , Hungary , 262.5 kg (117.5–145) and Walentina Popowa , Russia , 257.5 kg (117.5–140)
2004	1.	Asian Championship in Almaty	up to 69 kg	weighing 270 kg, ahead of Pawina Thongsuk , 262.5 kg and Irina Vlasowa, Kazakhstan , 225 kg
2004	gold	OS in Athens	up to 69 kg	with 275 kg, before Eszter Krutzler, 262.5 kg and Zarema Kassajewa, USSR, 262.5 kg
2005	1.	Junior World Championships (U 23) in Busan	up to 75 kg	with 273 kg, in front of Swetlana Podobedowa, Russia, 262 kg (115–147)
2005	1.	World Cup in Doha	up to 69 kg	with 285 kg (126–159), before Natalja Sabolotnaja , USSR, 285 kg (130–155) and Svetlana Podobedowa, 279 kg (124–155)
2006	unpl.	World Cup in Santo Domingo	up to 69 kg	after 111 kg in the tear three failed attempts in the jerk and thus without a duel
2007	2.	World Cup in Chiang Mai / Thailand	up to 69 kg	with 271 kg (121–150), behind Oksana Sliwenko, Russia, 376 kg (120–156), in front of Natalja Dawidowa, Ukraine, 244 kg (114–130) and Devi Laishram Monika, India, 222 kg (100–122)
2008	1.	Asian Championship in Kanazawa / Japan	up to 69 kg	with 262 kg (117–145), before Kao Ya-Chun, Taiwan, 222 kg (98–124) and Davi Laishram Monika, India, 222 kg (100–122)
2009	4th	World Cup in Goyang / South Korea	up to 69 kg	with 245 kg (110-135), behind Nasik Awdaljan , Armenia, 266 kg (119-149), Oksana Slivenko, 264 kg (118-146) and Zhan Shaoling, Macao, 248 kg (112-136)
2010	1.	Asia Games in Guangzhou	up to 69 kg	with 242 kg (110–132), before Sinta Darmaniani, Indonesia, 238 kg (101–137) and Wang Ya-Jhen, Taiwan, 233 kg (100–133)

Medals individual disciplines

• World Cup gold medals: 2003 / Tear, 2003 / Push, 2005 / Push, 2007 / Tear
• World Cup silver medal: 2002 / push, 2005 / tear, 2006 / tear, 2007 / push

Chinese championship

• 2006, 1st place, up to 75 kg body weight, with 265 kg, ahead of Du Yeying, 252 kg and Yang Yuewei, 248 kg

World records

in the weight class up to 69 kg body weight:

in tears:

2002, 115.5 kg - 2003, 116 kg - 2003, 117.5 kg - 2003, 118 kg - 2003, 120 kg - 2004, 122.5 kg

in pushing:

2002, 144 kg - 2002, 147.5 kg - 2002, 148 kg - 2003, 148.5 kg - 2003, 150 kg - 2004 - 150.5 kg - 2004, 152.5 kg - 2004, 153 kg

in a duel:

2002, 260 kg - 2002, 262.5 kg - 2003, 265 kg - 2003, 267.5 kg - 2003, 270 kg - 2004, 275 kg

in the weight class up to 75 kg body weight:

in tears:

2005, 126 kg

in pushing:

2005, 159 kg

in a duel:

2005, 285 kg

Explanations

• all competitions in single combat, consisting of snatching and pushing
• WM = World Championship

Web links

• Brief portrait
• Services in the IMF database
• Photo from Mount Olympus. Play 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doping at the 2008 Olympics: Another 15 weightlifters tested positive . spiegel.de, August 24, 2016; Retrieved August 25, 2016.
2. ^ IOC sanctions eight athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. International Olympic Committee , January 12, 2017, accessed April 21, 2018 . 

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