Liu Cuiqing


Liu Cuiqing 刘翠青 is a Chinese para-athlete. She specializes in track and field.

Career

She competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the T11/F11 [Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 100 metres T11|100 metres T11|100 metres], [Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 200 metres T11|200 metres T11|200 metres], 400 metres and long jump. She won a bronze medal in the 100 metres with a time of 11.99 seconds. She runs with guide Xu Donglin 徐冬林.
In May 2019, she beat Zhou Guohua both in the 100m action replay and in the women’s 200 metres in the T11 visually-impaired category at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Beijing.
She won her first gold medal in the Women's 400m-11T Final at the Tokyo Paralympic Games with a record of 56.25s.
During the Beijing Paralympic Winter Games, she and her guide were the fifth torchbearers at the Opening Ceremony.

Award and nomination

In 2016, Liu was nominated for the Sportsperson of the year with a disability in the Laureus World Sports Awards.