Huasheng Online News on June 12 (Hunan Daily Huasheng Online(Reporter Cai Jinyi) This afternoon, the Chinese weightlifting team announced the list of participants for the Tokyo Olympics. Our province athletes Chen Lijun, Hou Zhihui, and Liao Qiuyun will be selected to compete in the men’s 67 kg class, women’s 49 kg class and women’s 55 kg class respectively.
The Chinese weightlifting team will send 8 athletes to participate in the Tokyo Olympics, namely:
Men’s team: Li Fabin (61kg class), Chen Lijun (67kg class), Shi Zhiyong (73kg class), Lv Xiaojun (81kg class);
(Chen Lijun)
Women’s team: Hou Zhihui (49kg level), Liao Qiuyun (55kg level), Wang Zhouyu (87kg level), Li Wenwen (+87kg level).
(Hou Zhihui)
(Liao Qiuyun)
The Juhuarou Center attaches great importance to the selection of the national weightlifting team for the Tokyo Olympics. In 2018, after soliciting the opinions of the national team for many times, combining previous experience and the actual weightlifting events of the current Olympic Games, and several times to solicit opinions from various provinces and cities to reach a high level. Unanimously, the “Methods for the Selection of Athletes for the Tokyo Olympic Games in Weightlifting” were formulated. A weightlifting project selection working group was established in early 2019, with Wu Shude, a famous weightlifter and China’s first weightlifting world champion, as the selection working group leader, and began this work.
The selection work is based on the principles of fairness, impartiality and openness, strictly follows the selection methods, and proceeds in an orderly manner in accordance with the selection process. Fully consider the situation of major international opponents, athletes’ training level, competition results, success rate, competition experience and psychology, weight, injuries and other factors to conduct a comprehensive assessment, and finally determine the list of 8 participants.