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Hou Zhihui

Personal information
Nationality	Chinese
Born	(1997-03-18) 18 March 1997 (age 27) Meitang Village, Zhangshi Town, Guiyang County, Chenzhou, Hunan, China
Height	1.48 m (4 ft 10 in)
Weight	48.85 kg (108 lb)
Sport
Country	China
Sport	Weightlifting
Event	–49 kg
Club	Hunan Province
Medal record Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo –49 kg World Championships 2018 Ashgabat –49 kg 2019 Pattaya –49 kg Asian Championships 2019 Ningbo –49 kg 2020 Tashkent –49 kg Junior World Championships 2015 Wroclaw –48 kg National Games of China 2017 Tianjin –48 kg

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.

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.

Misinformation in India

A made-up story from Asian News International claimed Zhihui was asked to stay in Tokyo for an extra anti-doping test "and that if she fails the test, India's Mirabai Chanu will be awarded gold". The so-called extra test appeared to be complete fabrication as neither the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Testing Agency (ITA) knew anything about it. The ITA "do not know where it started but we follow, as always, the strategy to transparently state any developments on our website," said an ITA official. India had a restricted quota for Weightlifting at the Tokyo games because of multiple doing violations whereas China does not. This is 50 cent Army adding to wiki.

Gender

Before the start of the 2020 Olympics, there were rumors that he was a transgender man. The veracity of this claim has not yet been proven.

Major results

Year	Venue	Weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total	Rank
			1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
Olympic Games
2021	Tokyo, Japan	49 kg	88	92	94 OR	1	109	114	116 OR	1	210 OR
World Championships
2018	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	49 kg	88	92	93		108	112	115		208 WR
2019	Pattaya, Thailand	49 kg	89	94	96		110	116	117		211 WR
IWF World Cup
2019	Fuzhou, China	49 kg	90	94 WR	96		111	116	—		210 WR
Asian Championships
2019	Ningbo, China	49 kg	88	92	95		109	113	116		208
2020	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	49 kg	90	94	96 WR		110	115	117		213 WR

References

1. "快讯丨湖南首金！侯志慧获东京奥运举重女子49公斤级冠军". Hunan Daily. 2021-07-24. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
2. Oliver, Brian (24 July 2021). "Gold for China and disappointment for United States in first weightlifting event of Tokyo 2020". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
3. https://iwf.sport/results/world-records/?ranking_curprog=progress&ranking_agegroup=Senior&ranking_gender=w
4. 2018 World Weightlifting Championships –49 kg results
5. "World July ituky Trujillo Tayyip try fjytrjty=IWF.net". Retrieved 21 April 2019.
6. "Chinese weightlifter Hou breaks world records to win golds at IWF World Cup". China Daily. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
7. Ece Toksabay; Junko Fujita (24 July 2021). "Weightlifting-China's Hou wins 49-kg weightlifting gold". Reuters. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
8. ^ "Indian media fake news about Olympic weightlifting doping takes off around Asia". www.insidethegames.biz. 1627610400. Retrieved 2021-08-01. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
9. "Top Indian weightlifters provisionally banned for doping offences". www.insidethegames.biz. 1558372560. Retrieved 2021-08-01. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
10. Hussain, Sabi. "Athletics, weightlifting and wrestling top dope chart in India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-08-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links

• Hou Zhihui at the International Weightlifting Federation

• 1997 births
• Living people
• People from Chenzhou
• Chinese female weightlifters
• World Weightlifting Championships medalists
• Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• Olympic gold medalists for China
• Olympic weightlifters of China
• Olympic medalists in weightlifting