Preparing for the Olympic two draw world record, weightlifter Jiang Huihua

Mondo Sports Updated on 2024-01-28

Jiang Huihua, born on January 22, 1998 in Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County, Hezhou City, Guangxi, is a Chinese female weightlifter.

Jiang Huihua was born in a poor mountain village, and her family made a living by working in agriculture. When she was a child, Jiang Huihua was obedient and sensible, and when her parents went out to work, she helped her grandfather take care of the family, and the lack of parental care also made this little girl extra strong. Although Jiang Huihua is not tall, she has good physical strength, can endure hardships, likes various sports, and her running and long jump results have always been among the best. The 2008 Beijing Olympics made a sports wind blow in the motherland, and Jiang Huihua's fate was changed, and at the age of 10, she was selected by Xu Weimei, the coach of Bucheon Amateur Sports School, and began to practice Xi weightlifting.

From practicing Xi weightlifting to joining the Guangxi Provincial Weightlifting Team at the age of 12, Jiang Huihua came to an unfamiliar environment alone, and the only thing that accompanied her was hard training day after day. For a young girl, not only does she need to master the technique of lifting weights, but the most difficult thing is to control her weight, sometimes she has to endure hunger, and sometimes she has to eat aggressively. Weightlifting, as an advantageous event in the Chinese Olympic Games, has a very systematic training plan, and Jiang Huihua's performance has also improved little by little. In the 2013 Asian Youth Games, she won the first gold medal for the Chinese team, and in 2015, she won the gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championships, making Jiang Huihua a rising star in Chinese weightlifting. However, China is full of weightlifting talent, and although Jiang Huihua performed well in the weightlifting world championships, she still regretted missing the Olympics.

On December 5, 2023, at the IWF Qatar Grand Prix, Jiang Huihua won the gold medal in the women's 49kg class with two world records. The Asian Games silver medal always inspires Jiang Huihua, insist on her dream and never give up, and the weightlifting event may be the last performance in the Olympic arena, hoping that Jiang Huihua can win glory for the country in the Paris Olympics and realize her dream of the Olympics.

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