Olympic champion Cao Lei breezily won the gold medal in the women’s 75kg category at the 11th Chinese National Games weightlifting competition on Monday. Cao, 26, winner in the Beijing Olympics, met almost no challenge throughout the competition. She snatched 125kg, jerked 150kg and lifted a total of 275kg to win the gold. Rookie Xiang […]
In the women’s 69kg division, Olympic champion Liu nailed the gold medal in her first jerk attempt, unnecessary to finish the last two attempts. Her coach Ma Wenhua, also the head coach in the national team, persuaded her to stop lifting on the back course. Liu showed disagreement expression in her face, but finally she […]
Two teenagers caused media hype in the women’s weightlifting competition as they both overcame veterans to win gold medals at the 11th Chinese National Games on Sunday. Guan Xinlei of Jiangsu, 19, hoisted a winning lift 147kg in her final attempt, seven kilos more than her fifth lift, to knock down defending champion Ouyang Xiaofang […]
Chinese women’s world champions Li Ping and Wang Mingjuan towered above world records in the 53 and 48 kilogram weight classes respectively at China’s National Games. The two outshone the records in Saturday’s competition in the eastern city of Jinan, with Li shattering previous world records in the 53kg class by snatching 103kg, lifting 132kg […]
The 11th National Games, billed as China’s mini-Olympics, opened amid a splendid ceremony in Jinan, east China’s Shandong Province Friday evening, October 16, 2009 in Jinan., east China’s Shandong Province Friday evening. Chinese President Hu Jintao officially opened the Games at the ceremony held in the newly built Olympic Sports Complex in this capital city […]