Liu Chunhong

Liu Chunhong

Liu Chunhong, born in Yantai, Shandong Province, China on January 29, 1985, is a former member of the Chinese women's weightlifting team.

In 2002, he was selected into the national team. On October 6, 2002, Busan Asian Games won the championship with a total score of 262.5kg. On October 22, 2003, Liu Chunhong won the gold medal with a total score of 257.5kg in the Fifth National City Games. In 2004, Liu Chunhong won the women's 69kg weightlifting championship in Athens Olympic Games with a total score of 275kg. In 2008, Liu Chunhong won the women's 69kg class in the weightlifting competition of Beijing Olympic Games with the advantage of 128 kg snatch, 158 kg clean and jerk and 286 kg total score. On July 10, 2012, Liu Chunhong was unable to participate in the London Olympic Games. Liu Chunhong, 30, has decided to retire. In the second half of 2012, Liu Chunhong decided to go to the United States for further study. After returning home, she served as the deputy director of juwrestle center of Shandong Sports Bureau.

On January 13, 2017, due to the re examination found that GHRP-2 and sibutramine were positive, the International Olympic Committee officially announced that it was deprived of the gold medal qualification of the 69kg weightlifting in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

In August 2017, the court of arbitration for sports (CAS) rejected the appeals of Liu Chunhong and Cao Lei, who had been cancelled by the International Olympic Committee because their urine samples were positive in the re examination.

Early experience

Liu Chunhong, 11, was selected by judo coach Guo Bingxun. After a simple test, she decided to send Liu to Zhaoyuan sports school. In the initial judo training, with hard training, Liu Chunhong emerged. In 1995, Liu Chunhong was admitted to Yantai sports school. The family was poor, so my brother took the initiative to drop out of school and went out to work for Liu Chunhong to go to school. Later, in Yantai sports school, coach Xiang Dong asked Liu Chunhong to change to weightlifting according to her physical conditions and characteristics. So far, Liu Chunhong began to participate in various weightlifting events.

Growth process

Career

In 1996, Liu Chunhong changed from Judo to weightlifting in Yantai sports school, and her coach went east. In 1998, Liu Chunhong joined the Shandong weightlifting team, coach Ma Wenhui. In 2002, he was selected into the national team. On October 6, 2002, Liu Chunhong broke the world records of snatch 115.5kg and clean and jerk 148 kg in the 69kg women's weightlifting final of Busan Asian Games, and won the championship of this level with a total score of 262.5kg, which is a new world record. Liu Chunhong failed to break the world record of 148.5 kg in the 2003 World Championships The world record was raised by 2.5kg and won the championship. On October 22, 2003, at the Fifth National City Games, Liu Chunhong won the gold medal with a total score of 257.5kg in snatch and clean and jerk of 117.5kg and 140kg respectively. On November 20, 2003, in the women's 69kg class of the World Weightlifting Championships, Liu Chunhong won the championship with a total score of 270Kg, and won three gold medals in snatch, clean and jerk and total score. On August 19, 2004, Liu Chunhong won the women's 69kg weightlifting final in Athens Olympic Games with a total score of 275kg, which also broke the original world record. On April 26, 2006, the "Xianggang Cup" 2006 National Women's weightlifting championship was held in Xiangtan City, Hunan Province. Liu Chunhong won the 75kg women's weightlifting championship with a total score of 265kg and a snatch of 115KG and clean and jerk of 150kg. On October 5, 2006, in the World Weightlifting Championships held in Dominica, Liu Chunhong withdrew from the women's 69kg class due to injury. Liu Chunhong sprained her elbow in the snatch competition, which caused her to withdraw from the competition. Liu's snatch score was 111kg, and she won the silver medal in the snatch with 111kg. On September 24, 2007, at the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Liu Chunhong won the snatch champion with 121 kg, the total result was not as good as Russia's shrevenko's 276 kg, and won the second place in the 69kg class and the clean and jerk. August 13, 2008, the fifth day of weightlifting competition in 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Liu Chunhong broke three world records five times in the competition, and finally won the women's 69kg class champion with the advantage of 128 kg snatch, 158 kg clean and jerk and 286 kg total score, winning the 17th gold medal for the Chinese delegation. On October 19, 2009, Liu Chunhong won the gold medal in the women's 69kg weightlifting competition of the 11th National Games with a total score of 267kg. On November 17, 2010, in the final of women's weightlifting 69kg class in the 16th Asian Games, Liu Chunhong won the championship by snatching 110kg and clean and jerk 132kg with a total score of 242 kg. on November 10, 2011, the women's 69kg final of the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships was held at the Disney Magic arena in Paris, France. Liu Chunhong is absent due to injury, and Xiang Yanmei plays. on April 4, 2012, Liu Chunhong withdrew from the National Women's Weightlifting Championships in the 69kg class due to injury. Before the competition, Liu Chunhong appeared in the list of athletes, and the result card showed that her snatch weight was 120 kg. However, when it was her turn to appear, Liu Chunhong did not appear, and later confirmed that she temporarily withdrew from the competition due to recurrence of old knee injury.

retire

On July 10, 2012, Liu Chunhong was unable to participate in the London Olympic Games. Liu Chunhong has decided to retire because of her knee injury. In the second half of 2012, she went to the United States for further study. After returning home, she served as the deputy director of lifting and wrestling center of Shandong Sports Bureau. On April 2, 2013, Liu Chunhong watched the National Women's weightlifting Championship held in Changsha. on August 24, 2016, the International Weightlifting Federation, through the International Olympic Committee's retest on the test samples of the athletes of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, showed that Liu Chunhong's drug test results were positive, and the International Weightlifting Federation imposed a temporary ban on Cao Lei.

Career data

Award winning record

Outside life

Liu Chunhong is a "talented woman" of the national team. She likes to draw cartoons and embroider cross stitch. Her cooking skills are also better. After Liu Chunhong settled down in Jinan in 2013, she lived in the house assigned to her by the Sports Bureau. Her room is quite characteristic. In her spare time, Liu Chunhong calls her mother to ask how to cook, and invites her friends to eat dumplings at her home. Liu Chunhong said that her dumplings are delicious, especially Spanish mackerel dumplings.

Social evaluation

at the Athens Olympic Games, Liu Chunhong broke the world record and won a gold medal with higher gold content. Yu Xuetian said that Liu Chunhong's advantage in the competition is obvious. She has defeated her opponents in the whole world in weightlifting. (comments by Yu Xuetian, director of Shandong Provincial Sports Bureau) Liu Chunhong won the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games with a total score of more than 30 kg of silvenko from Russia. Liu Chunhong defended the myth that China's weightlifting team was unbeaten in the Olympic Games. She won China's sixth gold medal in weightlifting, broke five world records and won the world championship in weightlifting. (review by sports news agency of Germany) Liu Chunhong, a tenacious fighter, shows China's strength in the Olympic Games. All China Youth Federation

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