Luo Shifang

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| birth_place = Guiyang County, Chenzhou, Hunan, China{{Cite web |date=18 September 2021 |title=视频丨桂阳籍举重选手罗诗芳破全国青年纪录夺冠 |trans-title=Guiyang-born weightlifter Luo Shifang breaks the national youth record to win the championship |url=https://hn.rednet.cn/content/2021/09/18/10177735.html |access-date=9 August 2024 |language=zh}}

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Luo Shifang ({{zh|s=罗诗芳|p=Luó Shīfāng}}; born 2 April 2001) is a Chinese weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the women's 59{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.{{Cite web |title=Weightlifting Results Book |url=https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WLF/OG2024_WLF_B99_WLF-------------------------------.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811193408/https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WLF/OG2024_WLF_B99_WLF-------------------------------.pdf |archive-date=11 August 2024 |access-date=12 August 2024 |website=2024 Summer Olympics}}

Career

Luo took up weightlifting at the age of 12. She started practicing to improve her physical fitness.{{cite web |title=LUO Shifang |url=https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/shifang-luo_1918379 |publisher=Paris 2024 |access-date=16 August 2024}}

Luo won a medal in the women's 59{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships, held in Bogotá, Colombia.{{Cite web |title=2022 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book |url=https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2022/12/Bogota-Results-Book.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221217071304/https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2022/12/Bogota-Results-Book.pdf |archive-date=17 December 2022 |access-date=17 December 2022 |website=IWF}} She won the gold medal in her event at the 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in Jinju, South Korea.{{Cite web |title=2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships Results Book |url=https://www.awfederation.com/images/Results_Book_JINJU_2023.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520121742/https://www.awfederation.com/images/Results_Book_JINJU_2023.pdf |archive-date=20 May 2023 |access-date=18 July 2024 |website=Asian Weightlifting Federation}}

In 2023, she won the gold medal in the women's 59{{nbsp}}kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.{{Cite news |last=Oliver |first=Brian |date=8 September 2023 |title=Luo puts last year's failure behind her to give China another title at IWF World Championships |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1140623/luo-china-weightlifting-title |access-date=29 September 2023 |work=InsideTheGames.biz}}{{Cite web |title=2023 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book |url=https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2023/09/2023_KSA_ResultsBook_.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230917164936/https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2023/09/2023_KSA_ResultsBook_.pdf |archive-date=17 September 2023 |access-date=17 September 2023 |website=International Weightlifting Federation}} She won the silver medal in her event at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China.{{Cite web |title=Weightlifting Medalists |url=https://info.hangzhou2022.cn/resAG2022-/pdf/AG2022-/WLF/AG2022-_WLF_C93_WLF-------------------------------.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231008163054/https://info.hangzhou2022.cn/resAG2022-/pdf/AG2022-/WLF/AG2022-_WLF_C93_WLF-------------------------------.pdf |archive-date=8 October 2023 |access-date=8 October 2023 |website=2022 Asian Games}}

She is the current gold medalist on Women's 59 Kg by winning at 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris on August 8, 2024. In this occasion she established three Olympic records on weightlifting: Snatch, Clean & Jerk and Total score.

Major results

width=65 \| 1 ! width=65 \| 2 ! width=65 \| 3 ! width=45 \| Rank ! width=65 \| 1 ! width=65 \| 2 ! width=65 \| 3 ! width=45 \| Rank
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" ! rowspan=2 width=40 \| Year ! rowspan=2 width=250 \| Venue ! rowspan=2 width=60 \| Weight ! colspan=4 \| Snatch (kg) ! colspan=4 \| Clean and jerk (kg) ! rowspan=2 width=65 \| Total ! rowspan=2 width=40 \| Rank
colspan=13 \| Olympic Games
2024	align=left \| Paris, France	59 kg	101	105	107 {{OlyR\|weightlifting}}	{{n/a}}	129	134 {{OlyR\|weightlifting}}	~~137~~	{{n/a}}	241 {{OlyR\|weightlifting}}	{{gold1}}
colspan=13 \| World Championships
2022	align=left \| Bogotá, Colombia	59 kg	101	~~104~~	~~104~~	5	126	129	~~133~~	{{bronze3}}	230	4
2023	align=left \| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	59 kg	101	104	107	{{gold1}}	128	133	136	{{gold1}}	243	{{gold1}}
colspan=13\|IWF World Cup
2024	align=left\| Phuket, Thailand	59 kg	103	~~108~~	108	{{silver2}}	133	~~140~~	140	{{gold1}}	248 CWR	{{gold1}}
colspan=13\|Asian Games
2023	align=left\| Hangzhou, China	59 kg	100	104	107	{{n/a}}	128	133	~~140~~	{{n/a}}	240	{{silver2}}
colspan=13\|Asian Championships
2023	align=left\| Jinju, South Korea	59 kg	98	102	105	{{gold1}}	126	130	133	{{silver2}}	238	{{gold1}}

CWR: Current world record
OR: Olympics record