Hou Zhihui

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Born
1997 (28 years old)
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Meitang Village, China

Position
Weightlifter

Status
Active

Ethnicity
Asian

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Height
148 cm

Weight
49 kg

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Sport

Weightlifting

Team
China Weightlifting Women

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League
Olympics Weightlifting

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Latest Results

					Womens 49kg Final	24 Jul 21

Description

Hou Zhihui (Chinese: 侯志慧; pinyin: hóu zhìhuì; born 18 March 1997) is a Chinese weightlifter, Olympic champion, World champion, and two-time Asian champion competing in the women's 49 kg category.

As of 2021, she has set eleven senior world records throughout her career.

She competed at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in the 49 kg division, winning silvers medals in all lifts, and setting two world records in the total.

In 2019 she competed at the 2019 IWF World Cup held in Fuzhou, China, in the 49 kg category. She swept gold medals in all lifts setting new world records in the snatch and total.

In 2021 at the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won China's second gold medal in women's 49 kg weightlifting, setting new Olympic records in the snatch, clean and jerk, and overall total, with 210 kilograms, which is three short of her world record from the 2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships.

She won the bronze medal in the women's 49 kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.

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