Liu Hong (athlete)

Liu Hong
Liu Hong at the 2013 World Championships
nation	People's Republic of China
birthday	12th May 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Anfu ,  China
size	160 cm
Weight	50 kg
Career
discipline	Go
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 × World championships 3 × 2 × 0 × Asian Games 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze London 2012 20 km walk gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 20 km walk  World championships gold Daegu 2009 20 km walk silver Berlin 2011 20 km walk silver Moscow 2013 20 km walk gold Beijing 2015 20 km walk gold Doha 2019 20 km walk  Asian Games gold Doha 2006 20 km walk gold Guangzhou 2010 20 km walk
last change: October 2019

Liu Hong ( Chinese  劉 虹  /  刘 虹 , Pinyin Liú Hóng; born May 12, 1987 in Anfu ) is a Chinese walker .

Liu won the 2006 Junior World Championships in Beijing in 10,000-meter track walking. In the same year she won the Asian Games in Doha in the 20 km walk . In 2007 she finished 19th at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka .

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 she finished fourth with a personal best of 1:27:17 h and only missed the bronze medal by five seconds, which went to the Italian Elisa Rigaudo .

During the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , Liu fought for first place with Olive Loughnane from Ireland . The Irish woman was only able to break away shortly before the finish, and Liu was twelve seconds behind. Olga Kaniskina , initially honored as the winner , was subsequently stripped of the title because of persistent serious doping offenses .

In 2010 she defended her title as champion at the Asian Games in Guangzhou . At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , she also won the gold medal with a time of 1:30:00 h. Here, too, Kaniskina, initially honored as the winner, was stripped of the title for doping offenses. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 she was subsequently declared a bronze medalist after the result of Kaniskina was also canceled here. She then won the bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow .

On June 6, 2015, she set the current world record over 20 km at the Gran Premio Cantones de Marcha in A Coruña with 1:24:38 h. At the World Championships in Beijing , she won in 1:27:45 h ahead of her compatriot Lü Xiuzhi . It won the only gold medal for the host country. She was voted Chinese Sportswoman of the Year 2015.

In May 2016, she herself tested positive in a doping control and was banned for a month, but was eligible to compete in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in the same year. There she won the gold medal in 1:28:35 h and reached the goal two seconds ahead of the Mexican María Guadalupe González .

In 2017, Liu took a pregnancy break and became a mother in November. She returned to competition for the 2019 season. At the Chinese Race Walk Grand Prix in Huangshan, she set a world record when she covered the 50-kilometer distance in 3:59:15 h, making it the first woman to break the 4-hour mark.

Liu Hong is 1.60 m tall and weighs 50 kg.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2009. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2009, ISBN 978-1-899807-78-9 .

Web links

• Liu Hong in the database of World Athletics (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Doping verdict Russian walkers have to hand in medals . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 24, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed August 13, 2016]).
2. ^ IAAF: Liu breaks 20km race walk world record in La Coruna . June 6, 2015
3. ^ IAAF: Report: women's 20km race walk - IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 . August 28, 2015
4. ↑ Ning Zetao, Liu Hong Named China's Athlete of the Year on: China Radio International , January 24, 2016, accessed January 25, 2016
5. ↑ Walker Liu Hong eligible to start spox.com July 29, 2016
6. ↑ 2019 of Liu Hong: 50km goal. In: Marcia dal Mondo. December 22, 2018, accessed March 10, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Liu breaks world 50km race walk record in Huangshan, cracking four-hour barrier. In: iaaf.org. March 9, 2019, accessed March 10, 2019 . 

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, Hong is the first name.