Deng Wei (weightlifter)

Deng Wei

Personal information
Nationality	Chinese
Born	(1993-02-14) 14 February 1993 Sanming, China
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	63.40 kg (140 lb)
Sport
Country	China
Sport	Weightlifting
Event	–64 kg
Club	Fujian Province
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	Snatch: 115 kg (2014) Clean and jerk: 147 kg (2016, WR) Total: 262 kg (2016, WR)
Medal record Representing China Olympic Games 2016 Rio –63 kg World Championships 2010 Antalya –58 kg 2014 Almaty –63 kg 2015 Houston –63 kg 2018 Ashgabat –64 kg 2019 Pattaya –64 kg Asian Games 2014 Incheon –63 kg Asian Championships 2019 Ningbo –64 kg Summer Youth Olympics 2010 Singapore –58 kg

Deng Wei (simplified Chinese: 邓薇; traditional Chinese: 鄧薇; pinyin: Dèng Wéi, born 14 February 1993) is a Chinese female weightlifter. She is an Olympic Champion, five-time World Champion and Asian Champion. She competed in the 58 kg and 63 kg categories until 2018 and 64 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.

Career

She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 63 kg category. She put on a dominating display, she matched the Olympic Record of 115 kg in the snatch, and set new World Records in the clean & jerk and total. She outlifted the silver medalist Choe Hyo-sim by 14 kg.

In 2018 she competed at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in Ashgabat, sweeping gold medals in all lifts, while setting 5 new senior world records, and outlifting the silver medalist Rim Un-sim by 14 kg.

Throughout her career she has set 20 senior world records.

Major results

Year	Venue	Weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total	Rank
			1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
Olympic Games
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	63 kg	108	112	115	1	138	147 WR	—	1	262 WR
World Championships
2010	Antalya, Turkey	58 kg	93	102	102		120	131	135		237
2013	Wrocław, Poland	58 kg	105	108	108		133	133	133	—	—	—
2014	Almaty, Kazakhstan	63 kg	110	110	110	4	130	136	142		252
2015	Houston, United States	63 kg	110	110	113		140	146 WR	--		259
2018	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	64 kg	110	110	112 WR		135	138	140 WR		252 WR
2019	Pattaya, Thailand	64 kg	108	113	116 CWR		138	143 WR	145 CWR		261 CWR
Asian Games
2014	Incheon, South Korea	63 kg	110	115	116	2	141	144	144 WR	2	259
Asian Championships
2019	Ningbo, China	64 kg	108	112	115 WR		137	142 WR	—		257 WR
IWF World Cup
2019	Fuzhou, China	64 kg	108	113 WR	—		135	141 WR	—		254 WR
World Junior Championships
2011	Penang, Malaysia	58 kg	105	110	112		128	133	133		243
Youth Olympic Games
2010	Singapore, Singapore	58 kg	100	105	110	1	125	132	137	1	242
World Youth Championships
2009	Chiang Mai, Thailand	58 kg	86	91	98		110	116	124		222

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in weightlifting
• List of Youth Olympic Games gold medalists who won Olympic gold medals

External links

• Deng Wei at the International Weightlifting Federation
• Deng Wei at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• the-sports.org
• IWRP Profile