Li Wenwen
Li Wenwen is a Chinese weightlifter competing in the women's +87 kg division. She is a double Olympic champion, as well as the double world and 3 time Asian champion. In 2021, she set the World [record progression women's weightlifting#+87_kg|current world records] for both clean & jerk and snatch.
Career
In 2019, Li competed at the IWF World Cup in Fuzhou, winning silver medals and setting List of junior [world records in Olympic weightlifting|junior world records] in the snatch, clean & jerk and total in the +87 kg category. Later in 2019, she competed at the 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships in the +87 kg category. In the snatch portion she set a world record with a lift of 147 kg, and won gold medals in all lifts.She competed at the 2019 [World Weightlifting Championships] in the +87 kg division against teammate Meng Suping. She had a perfect 6 for 6 day and won gold medals in all lifts which included a world record clean & jerk of 186 kg which also set the total world record.
Li improved on her own world records at the 2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships in 2021. She increased her snatch record from 147 to 148, her clean & jerk record from 186 to 187, and her total record from 332 to 335.
She represented China at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's +87 kg event, winning the gold medal with a new Olympic record of 320 kg.
In August 2024, she finished in first place in the women's +81kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.