At the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese weightlifting team participated in a total of 8 men's and women's competitions, winning 7 of them, the only one lost was the gold medal in the women's 55 kg category. At that time, she was interviewed with tears, saying that she had actually come up with the best state with injuries, 6 trials, and she finally regrettably won the silver medal with a gap of 1 kg, she was Liao Qiuyun, a hunan weightlifter who had originally placed high hopes, but unfortunately, this trip to Tokyo did not belong to her. And 2 months later, at the National Games, she failed to complete her self-redemption. In the women's 55 kg final that ended on the evening of the 16th, Liao Qiuyun performed abnormally in the snatch competition, and finally won the tie for 9th place with a snatch of 94 kg, a deadlift, and a total score of 214 kg, and failed to make up for his Olympic defeat with a gold medal at the National Games.
Liao Qiuyun
The only weightlifting gold medal lost in the Olympic Games is because of their poor performance, such a situation will be a lot of pressure on anyone, although they tried their best, but after all, the result can not be changed, the gap between the silver medal and the gold medal is only 1 kg, but it has a completely different ending. Liao Qiuyun from Yongzhou, Hunan Province, left unwilling tears in Tokyo, the 6-time test to make the successful star almost perfect, but the result was cruel, she lost the game, but life has to go on. Wherever she falls, she gets up from where she falls, and her goal is clear, to justify herself with the National Games champion.
Born in July 1995, Liao Qiuyun began to contact weightlifting at the age of 12, although it was not too early to start, but she was physically qualified to complete the "four consecutive jumps" from the county sports school, the city sports school, the provincial sports school to the national team in just a few years, and with this process, she also won countless championship trophies, and even was once crowned the title of "champion harvester". With the increase of strength, she is not limited to showing her strength in the domestic arena, and it is also her unshirkable obligation to represent China in intercontinental competitions.
Four years ago at the Tianjin National Games, she was crowned the champion of the women's 53 kg class, and in the 2019 Asian Championships, she won three gold medals in the snatch, deadlift and overall result; at the World Championships in the same year, she once again raised her performance to a new level, with a total of 129 kg and a total of 227 kg, all new world records, so Liao Qiuyun almost reached the point where no one could beat it. But even if it is already famous, the "Waterloo" at the Tokyo Olympic Games still reminds her that the accidents of competitive sports are very large, even if you have superior strength, it does not mean that the champion is not you.
Su Tingting
With the imperfect Olympic experience 2 months ago, she has become more mature and stable when she returns to the National Games, facing the challenges of athletes in different provinces, Liao Qiuyun, who can already be called a Mesozoic athlete, has a clear goal this time, that is, to impact the champion. However, in this game, her performance was not stable, and she only succeeded in 3 attempts in the snatching competition, and the result was only 94 kg, which was a certain gap from her normal level, ranking only fourth from the bottom of all athletes. Such a result also made her basically lose the possibility of competing for the title after the catch-up competition. In the subsequent deadlift competition, Liao Qiuyun only tried 120 kg successfully once, and then gave up the next two attempts. In the end, she failed to make up for her Olympic loss of gold with a gold medal at the National Games, and the champion was won by Sichuan's Su Tingting with 99 kg in snatching, 126 kg in deadlift, and a total of 225 kg.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Kunlong
Editor/Xu Zhao