At present, the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, a global sports event, is in full swing, and the Chinese Olympic athletes have performed well, and have won 5 gold medals so far, equaling the best performance in the history of the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the Chinese team also won five gold medals. However, at present, the Beijing Winter Olympics are still continuing, and the Chinese team still has a number of gold-winning events that have not yet been played, and it is expected to achieve better results. I have to say that the performance of the Olympic athletes is indeed worthy of everyone's admiration. However, after all, the number of participants in the Olympic Games is limited, so many famous players have no chance to stand on the stage of the Olympic Games. For example, at the Tokyo Olympic Games, a world-class chinese player was ultimately unable to go to the Tokyo Olympic Games because of the restrictions on the participation in the olympics. But she is luckier than the other players, she has already bloomed on the Olympic stage before. Now, with age, injuries and changes in the sports she works in, the Olympic champion, who broke the world record 12 times a year, finally chose to officially retire on a day that was very special for her.
The officially announced retirement is the former captain of the Chinese women's weightlifting team and Olympic champion Deng Wei. Seeing this name, I believe that no one in the audience who pays attention to the weightlifting movement in China does not know her name. Deng Wei can be described as a great demon in the world weightlifting world, as long as she competes, it is not a question of who wins the championship in the end, but to see if she has broken the world record again. Deng Wei comes from a rural family deep in the mountains and has been able to bear hardships and stand hard work since she was a child. At that time, Coach Lu, a weightlifting coach at Sanming Sports School, went to Yangxi to enroll and fell in love with Deng Wei at a glance. Since then, Deng Wei's life direction has changed, entered the Sanming City Sports School, and began her brilliant sports career.
In 2009, at the first World Junior Weightlifting Championships, Deng Wei won the championship with a total score of 222 kg in the women's 58 kg competition, and this was only the beginning of her career as a big devil. In the adult competition after that, Deng Wei was like a hanging, as long as she competed, the championship basically belonged to her. In 2010, Deng Wei won the women's 58 kg overall result at the World Weightlifting Championships, with which she was shortlisted for the Sports Personality of the Year Newcomer Award. In 2013, Deng Wei won the 12th National Games Weightlifting Women's 58 kg Snatch, Deadlift, and Overall Results. In December 2015, Deng Wei broke the world record in the division of the world weightlifting championships with a score of 146 kg in the women's 63 kg deadlift.
2016 was the most memorable year for Deng Wei, when she won the Olympic gold medal in the women's 63 kg weightlifting competition at the Rio Olympics with a total of 115 kg in snatching, 147 kg in deadlift and 262 kg. Among them, the grasp lift results were equal to the Olympic record. At the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships, the women's 64 kg competition won three gold medals and broke three world records at the same time. In the women's 64 kg final of the 2019 Weightlifting World Cup and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games Qualification Tournament, Deng Wei won three gold medals in this category with excellent results of 113 kg in snatching, 141 kg in deadlift and 254 kg in total. On September 22 of the same year, at the end of the 2019 Weightlifting World Championships in the women's 64 kg category, she easily won the triple crown with a snatch of 116 kg, a deadlift of 145 kg and a total of 261 kg, while breaking three world records, Deng Wei was the first player to win three golds and break all three world records after the start of the World Championships that year.
Although on the way to the Tokyo Olympics, Deng Wei's state exploded, breaking the world record many times. However, it is a pity that because the Tokyo Olympic weightlifting program limits the registration of each association, it can only be registered for 8 people and 8 events. In the end, Deng Wei's level was abandoned, and she had no choice but to go to the Tokyo Olympics. Otherwise, with her strength, if she can participate in the Tokyo Olympics, the gold medal will basically not run.
Missing the Tokyo Olympics, the impact on Deng Wei was actually relatively large. She then declined and was plagued by injuries. Her last appearance in the professional arena was at last year's National Games, but her performance was not good, and she was finally helped out of the field due to injury. As a result, the increase in age, injuries, coupled with changes related to weightlifting, made Deng Wei finally make up her mind to say goodbye to the professional arena.
On the day of her birthday on February 14, she officially announced her retirement on social platforms. She posted the athlete's retirement report, accompanied by text: "2003-2022, 19 years of weightlifting career, there are difficulties and setbacks, grievances, sadness and regrets, there are happy and joyful, honors and pride and gains, I am lucky to have some achievements, and I am honored to be a role model in the eyes of some people." He added, "Get out of the training ground, walk off the podium, and start a new life journey." "Finally, send your blessings to Deng Wei."