Liu Chunhong

{{Infobox sportsperson

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|1|29}}

| height = 1.65 m

| weight_class = 69 kg

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Liu Chunhong ({{zh|s=刘春红|p=Liú Chūnhóng}}; born January 29, 1985,{{cite web |url=https://iwf.sport/weightlifting_/athletes-bios/?athlete=liu-chunhong-1985-01-29&id=121 |title=Liu Chunhong |website=iwf.sport |publisher=International Weightlifting Federation |access-date=August 19, 2024}}{{cite web |url=http://www.athens2004.com/en/ParticipantsAthletes/newParticipants?pid=364635 |title=Liu Chunhong |website=athens2004.com |publisher=Athens Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040821000657/http://www.athens2004.com/en/ParticipantsAthletes/newParticipants?pid=364635 |archive-date=August 21, 2004 |access-date=August 19, 2024}}{{cite web |url=http://data.star.sports.cn/person_en.php?id=1210 |title=Liu Chunhong |work=CIS Chinese Athletes Database |publisher=Chinese Olympic Committee |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013075209/http://data.star.sports.cn/person_en.php?id=1210 |archive-date=October 13, 2019 |access-date=August 19, 2024}} in Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province) is a Chinese weightlifter.

Career

At the 2003 World Weightlifting Championships she won in the 69 kg category with a total of ten new world records and junior world records.{{cite news |title=Weltrekordfestival von Liu Chunhong |url=http://sport.ard.de/sp/weitere/news200311/20/gewichtheben.jhtml |accessdate=August 11, 2008 |work=ARD Sport |language=German |date=November 20, 2003}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.china.org.cn/olympic/2008-08/13/content_16212422.htm |title=Chinese Liu Chunhong breaks 3 world records -- china.org.cn |website=www.china.org.cn |access-date=2019-09-23}}

She competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, and won the gold medal in the 69 kg class.

At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she won the snatch competition in the 69 kg category with 121 kg, and won the silver medal lifting in total 271 kg.{{cite web |title=LIU Chunhong |publisher=International Weightlifting Federation |url=http://www.iwf.net/results/results_athlete_e.php?compid=121 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527160431/http://www.iwf.net/results/results_athlete_e.php?compid=121 |archivedate=May 27, 2011}}

At the 2008 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal in the 69 kg category, while setting new Olympic and world records in both the snatch and clean and jerk with a lift of 128 kg and 158 kg respectively for a world record total of 286 kg. This total would have been enough to win gold and set the Olympic record in the 75 kg category (heavyweight), as well as tie Svetlana Podobedova's then world record in that category. She became the first ever woman to defend her Olympic title in weightlifting.{{cite web |title=Liu Chunhong breaks women's weightlifting world,record |publisher=xinhuanet |url=http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/13/content_9256791.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518135216/http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/13/content_9256791.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 18, 2011}}

On January 12, 2017 it was announced that because of a doping violation she had been disqualified from the 2008 Olympic Games.{{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 |accessdate=January 12, 2017}}

Personal bests (69 kg)

Snatch: 128 kg (2008 Summer Olympics, disqualified in 2017)
Clean and Jerk: 158 kg (2008 Summer Olympics, disqualified in 2017)
Total: 286 kg (2008 Summer Olympics, disqualified in 2017)

=Other=

Jerk (off rack): 175 kg (training claim){{citation needed|date=November 2015}}
Front Squat: 200.0 kg{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}
Back Squat: 230.0 kg (Raw women's 69 kg all-time world record){{citation needed|date=November 2015}}