Cao Lei
{{Short description|Chinese weightlifter (born 1983)}}
{{family name hatnote|Cao|lang=Chinese}}
{{use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|12|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = Qinhuangdao, Hebei
| height = 1.68 m
| weight = 75 kg
| country = {{CHN}}
| sport = Weightlifting
| event = Women's 75 kg
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games}}
{{Medal|DQ| 2008 Beijing | 75 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition| World Championships}}
{{MedalGold| 2006 Santo Domingo| 75 kg}}
{{MedalGold| 2007 Chiang Mai| 75 kg}}
{{MedalSilver| 2009 Goyang| 75 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition| Asian Games}}
{{MedalGold| 2006 Doha|75 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2010 Guangzhou|-75 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition| Chinese National Games}}
{{MedalGold| 2009 Shandong|75 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition| East Asian Games}}
{{MedalGold| 2005 Macau|69 kg}}
{{MedalGold| 2009 Hong Kong|75 kg}}
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Cao Lei ({{zh|c=曹磊|p=Cáo Lěi}}; born 24 December 1983 in Qinhuangdao, Hebei) is a Chinese weightlifter. She was born in north China's Hebei Province and was raised in the northeastern Heilongjiang Province.
Career
Cao Lei started weightlifting training at the age of 11 and attended Daging City sports school in 1997 when she was selected to the Heilongjiang province weightlifting team coached by Qixi Fu.
After winning the national championships, Lei made her debut in the international field in 2001 in the Asian Championships 63 kilo category by winning gold with a result of 107.5 kg (a junior world record at the time) in snatch, and 127.5 kg in clean and jerk, totaling 235 kg.[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20010715/429829.htm Result of Asian weightlifting championships] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191013/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20010715/429829.htm |date=2016-03-03 }}, Xinhua. The next year she started training with the national team under the supervision of Ma Wenhui and moved up to the 69 kilo weight class in which she won the junior world championships 2003 with 105+140 kg performance.[http://www.iwf.net/doc/statistics/WORLD_CHAMP_JUNIOR_001_146.PDF World Junior Championships Results 1997-2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020063321/http://www.iwf.net/doc/statistics/WORLD_CHAMP_JUNIOR_001_146.PDF |date=2011-10-20 }}, IWF
In 2005 Cao placed fourth in the National games and later the year won gold in the East Asian Games. The next year she moved up one weight class and participated in the women's -75 kg at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and won the gold medal, snatching 118 kg and clean and jerking an additional 150 kg for a total of 268 kg.[http://www.iwf.net/results/results_results.php?placecod=8 75th Men's and 18th Women's World Championships -75 kg Women] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202053837/http://www.iwf.net/results/results_results.php?placecod=8 |date=December 2, 2008 }}, iwf.net Later the same year, she took gold in the Asian Games, besting her year ranking mark to 120 kg in the snatch and 152 kg in the clean and jerk.[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/05/content_5439218.htm Results of women's 75 kg weightlifting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107002205/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/05/content_5439218.htm |date=2012-11-07 }}, Xinhua.
At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she won the gold medal again in the same category, with a total of 286 kg.{{cite web|title=Cao Lei |publisher=International Weightlifting Federation |url=http://www.iwf.net/results/results_athlete_e.php?compid=1270 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527163229/http://www.iwf.net/results/results_athlete_e.php?compid=1270 |archive-date=2011-05-27 }}
In 2009 she finished her weightlifting grand slam by taking gold in Chinese National Games with a result of 125 kg in the snatch, 150 kg in the clean and jerk adding to 275 kg total.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} In the 2009 weightlifting world championships she wasn't able to sustain her supremacy over the 75 kilo weight class as Svetlana Podobedova of Kazakhstan swept three gold medals, Cao took silvers in all three disciplines.[http://www.iwf.net/results/results_results.php?placecod=41×tamp1286445300443 77th Men's and 20th Women's World Championships] {{dead link|date=January 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, iwf.net Later that year she represented her country in East Asian Games taking gold with routine performance of 252 kg total.[http://www.eleikosport.se/weightlifting/News.asp?NewsPagenumber=275 2009/93 5th East Asian Games - Day III, IV & V] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004232343/http://www.eleikosport.se/weightlifting/News.asp?NewsPagenumber=275 |date=October 4, 2011 }}, eleikosport.se
Doping violation
During the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, Cao was placed first in the women's -75 kg weightlifting division. She set new Olympic records in the snatch and clean and jerk events, as well as setting a new overall score record.{{cite web |title=Cao makes it seven for China |publisher=NBC Olympics, Associated Press |date=2008-08-15 |url=http://www.nbcolympics.com/weightlifting/news/newsid=217375.html#great+haul+china |access-date=2008-08-16 |archive-date=2008-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080815170606/http://www.nbcolympics.com/weightlifting/news/newsid=217375.html#great+haul+china |url-status=live }} However, on 12 January 2017, it was announced that because of a doping violation she had been retroactively disqualified from the 2008 Olympic Games and was therefore stripped of her gold medal and her records annulled.{{cite web|title=IOC sanctions eight athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012|url=https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-eight-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-test-at-beijing-2008-and-london-2012|publisher=IOC|access-date=12 January 2017|archive-date=13 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113205909/https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-eight-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-test-at-beijing-2008-and-london-2012|url-status=live}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080814175232/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/9/216849.shtml Athlete Biography] at beijing2008
- [http://2008teamchina.olympic.cn/index.php/personview/persons/706 Olympic Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810162253/http://2008teamchina.olympic.cn/index.php/personview/persons/706 |date=10 August 2011 }} in Chinese
- {{Olympics.com}}
- {{Olympedia}}
- {{IWF}}
{{Footer World Champions Weightlifting Women Middle heavyweight}}
{{Asian Games Champions Weightlifting Middle Heavyweight Women}}
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Category:Chinese female weightlifters
Category:21st-century Chinese sportswomen
Category:Olympic weightlifters for China
Category:People from Qinhuangdao
Category:Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:Asian Games medalists in weightlifting
Category:Weightlifters from Hebei
Category:Weightlifters at the 2006 Asian Games
Category:Weightlifters at the 2010 Asian Games
Category:Asian Games gold medalists for China
Category:Asian Games silver medalists for China
Category:Doping cases in weightlifting
Category:Chinese sportspeople in doping cases
Category:Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
Category:Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games