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On the last day of the Paris Olympics, the Chinese delegation won the last gold medal fromWomen's weightliftingOver 81 kg category,By the defending championLi WenwenGo to battle.

"My goal has always been to raise the national flag, play the national anthem, and, on the premise of winning the championship, try to break my own world record." Today, Li Wenwen easily fulfilled her promise and successfully defended her title.

Li Wenwen successfully defended her Olympic title

Still the king after returning from injury

At the Tokyo Olympics, Li Wenwen won the women's 87kg and above championship. In terms of strength, it is no problem for Li Wenwen to easily win the championship, and this event is also regarded as one of the most stable gold medals for the Chinese team.

During the Paris Olympic cycle, the weightlifting program was changed, and the women's 87kg and above events will no longer be established. However, Li Wenwen still has an absolute advantage in the women's large-scale events.

Li Wenwen weighs 300 kilograms.She is the world record holder for the women's snatch, clean and jerk, and total score over 87 kg，Few losses in recent years, and has won important domestic and international competitions such as the Olympics, World Championships, and National Games with a large advantage.

Li Wenwen stepped onto the highest podium

However, Li Wenwen was injured at the 2023 Weightlifting World Championships held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, and missed the subsequent Hangzhou Asian Games and other events. She said that she began to reflect after the injury and worked on improving her movements.

After a period of adjustment, Li Wenwen returned and regained her peak form.

At the 2024 Weightlifting World Cup held in April this year, Li Wenwen won three gold medals in the women's over 87kg competition, including snatch, clean and jerk and total score, with absolute advantage.

In this final, Li Wenwen's starting scores in both the snatch and the clean and jerk exceeded the highest level of her opponents. She stood out and won three gold medals with a total score of 325 kg, thanks to her performance of 145 kg in the snatch and 180 kg in the clean and jerk. In terms of the overall score, Li Wenwen was 29 kg ahead of her main rival, South Korean player Park Hye-jung, which showed the absolute dominance of the Chinese team in the competition and made her competitors despair.

At the Paris Olympics, Li Wenwen's main opponent was Park Hye-jung. In the snatch competition, Li Wenwen was the last to appear, and she started with 130 kg and lifted it easily. She also succeeded in the second attempt of 136 kg. After giving up the third attempt, she entered the clean and jerk competition ahead of Park Hye-jung's 131 kg.

In the subsequent clean and jerk competition, Park Hye-jung started with 163 kg and Li Wenwen started with 167 kg. In the second attempt, Park Hye-jung successfully lifted 168 kg. Li Wenwen successfully maintained the lead with 173 kg and expanded her lead over Park Hye-jung to 10 kg. In the last attempt, Park Hye-jung failed to lift 173 kg and her total score was set at 299 kg. Li Wenwen successfully defended her title!

Li Wenwen at the Olympic Games

Olympic champion who came to "audit"

In 2012, Li Wenwen, who was only 12 years old at the time, was about 1.7 meters tall and weighed 88 kilograms. According to her recollection, the coach of Anshan Sports School did not like her when he came to the school to select athletes. "(The coach) said I was too fat!" Her father even said to Li Wenwen, "You can't do anything well. Even the sports school doesn't want you." This inspired Li Wenwen's determination.

later,Li Wenwen used her connections to find a sports school coach and obtained the qualification to "audit"Because Anshan Sports School lacked high-level weightlifters at that time, Li Wenwen was kept in the team. It was this "gamble" with her father that created the Olympic champion.

The most memorable thing was Li Wenwen's final in Tokyo.

At the Asian Championships and Tokyo Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Li Wenwen broke all the world records in snatch, clean and jerk and total score, establishing her status as the champion. However, at the Tokyo Olympics, she met a strong opponent - New Zealand's "transgender" athlete Laurel Hubbard. But in the end, the young Li Wenwen easily defeated her opponent and won the gold medal with absolute advantage.

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Author: Gong Jieyun