IWF World Weightlifter of the Year
Women
Table:
Year

Winner

Country

Ref

1991
Sun Caiyan
China
[1]

1992
Peng Liping
China
[1]

1993
Chen Shu-chih
Chinese Taipei
[1]

1994
Guan Hong
China
[1]

1995
Chen Shu-chih
Chinese Taipei
[1]

1996
Li Hongyun
China
[1]

1997
Tang Weifang
China
[1]

1998
Tang Weifang
China
[1]

1999
Ding Meiyuan
China
[1]

2000
Ding Meiyuan
China
[1]

2001
Valentina Popova
Russia
[1]

2002
Wang Mingjuan
China
[1]

2003
Liu Chunhong
China
[1]

2004
Liu Chunhong
China
[1]

2005
Pawina Thongsuk
Thailand
[1]

2006
Chen Yanqing
China
[2]

2007
Jang Mi-ran
South Korea
[3]

2008
Liu Chunhong
China
[4]

2009
Jang Mi-ran
South Korea
[5]

2010
Svetlana Podobedova
Kazakhstan
[6]

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China ( Chinese : 中国 ; pinyin : Zhōngguó ) , officially the People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) , is a country in East Asia and is the world 's most populous country , with a population of around 1.428 billion in 2017 . Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers ( 3,700,000 sq mi ) , it is the third largest country by area . [ j ] Governed by the Communist Party of China , the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , [ k ] five autonomous regions , four direct-controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ) , and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau . China emerged as one of the world 's first civilizations , in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain . For millennia , China 's political system was based on hereditary monarchies , or dynasties , beginning with the semi-mythical Xia dynasty in 21st century BCE . Since then , China has expanded , fractured , and re-unified numerous times . In the 3rd century BCE , the Qin reunited core China and established the first Chinese empire . The succeeding Han dynasty , which ruled from 206 BCE until 220 CE , saw some of the most advanced technology at that time , including papermaking and the compass , along with agricultural and medical improvements . The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty ( 618-907 ) and Northern Song ( 960-1127 ) completed the Four Great Inventions . Tang culture spread widely in Asia , as the new Silk Route brought traders to as far as Mesopotamia and the Horn of Africa . Dynastic rule ended in 1912 with the Xinhai Revolution , when the Republic of China ( ROC ) replaced the Qing dynasty . China , as a whole , was ravaged by feudal warlordism and Japan during World War II .
Chinese Taipei is the name for Taiwan , officially known as the Republic of China ( ROC ) , designated in the Nagoya Resolution whereby the ROC and the People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) recognize each other when it comes to the activities of the International Olympic Committee and its correlates . The ROC participates under this name in various international organizations and events , including the World Trade Organization , the World Health Organization , the Metre Convention , FIRST Global and international pageants . The term is deliberately ambiguous . To the PRC , Chinese Taipei is ambiguous about the political status or sovereignty of the ROC/Taiwan ; to the ROC , it is a more inclusive term than just Taiwan ( which to the Kuomintang of the ROC in power at the time , and the PRC , just one part of China , which both claims to be the rightful government of in its entirety , and to the PRC the use of Taiwan as a national name is associated with independence of the area from the PRC ) and Taiwan , China ( might be construed as a subordinate area to the PRC ) .
Ding Meiyuan ( Chinese : 丁美媛 ; born 27 February 1979 in Dalian , Liaoning ) is a female Chinese weightlifter . She started training at age 12 , and joined the provincial team .
Valentina Vadimovna Popova ( Russian : Валентина Вадимовна Попова ) ( born September 25 , 1972 in Bratsk ) is a Russian weightlifter who won two olympic medals : the silver medal in the 63 kg class at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal in the 75 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics .
Russia ( Russian : Росси́я , tr . Rossiya , IPA : [ rɐˈsʲijə ] ) , or the Russian Federation , [ e ] is a European country located in Eastern Europe with a vast expanse of territory that stretches across Northern Asia . At 17,125,200 square kilometres ( 6,612,100 sq mi ) , it is by far the largest country in the world by area , covering more than one-eighth of the Earth 's inhabited land area , spanning eleven time zones , and bordering 16 sovereign nations . The territory of Russia extends from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east , and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caucasus in the south . With 146.7 million inhabitants living in the country 's 85 federal subjects as of 2020 , Russia is the most populous nation in Europe and the ninth-most populous nation in the world . Russia 's capital and largest city is Moscow ; other major urban areas include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod , Kazan and Chelyabinsk . The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD . Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants , the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century . In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire , beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium . Rus ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states , until it was finally reunified by the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the 15th century . By the 18th century , the nation had greatly expanded through conquest , annexation , and exploration to become the Russian Empire , which was the third largest empire in history , stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east . Following the Russian Revolution , the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Russian SFSR ) became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR/Soviet Union ) , the world 's first constitutionally socialist state .
Wang Mingjuan ( Chinese : 王明娟 ; pinyin : Wáng Míngjuān ; born October 11 , 1985 in Yongzhou , Hunan ) is a Chinese weightlifter , Olympic champion , and four time world champion .
Liu Chunhong ( simplified Chinese : 刘春红 ; traditional Chinese : 劉春紅 ; pinyin : Liú Chūnhóng ; born January 29 , 1983 in Yantai , Shandong ) is a Chinese weightlifter .
Pawina Thongsuk ( born April 18 , 1979 in Si Khoraphum , Surin province ) is a Thai weightlifter . At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens she won an Olympic gold medal , with 122.5 kg snatching and 272.5 kg total in the 75 kg category . In 2005 , she won the World Championship in the 63 kg category . In the 2006 Asian Games in Doha she won the gold , as well as set a new world record for the 63 kg female weight class with a clean and jerk of 142 kg .
Thailand , [ a ] officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam , [ b ] is a country at the centre of the Southeast Asian Indochinese Peninsula composed of 76 provinces . At 513,120 km2 ( 198,120 sq mi ) and over 68 million people , Thailand is the world 's 50th-largest country by total area and the 21st-most-populous country . The capital and largest city is Bangkok , a special administrative area . Thailand is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos , to the east by Laos and Cambodia , to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia , and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Myanmar . Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast , and Indonesia and India on the Andaman Sea to the southwest . It is a unitary state . Although nominally the country is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy , the most recent coup , in 2014 , established a de facto military dictatorship under a junta . Tai peoples migrated from southwestern China to mainland Southeast Asia from the 11th century ; the oldest known mention of their presence in the region by the exonym Siamese dates to the 12th century . Various Indianised kingdoms such as the Mon kingdoms , Khmer Empire and Malay states ruled the region , competing with Thai states such as the Kingdoms of Ngoenyang , Sukhothai , Lan Na and Ayutthaya , which rivaled each other . Documented European contact began in 1511 with a Portuguese diplomatic mission to Ayutthaya , now one of the great powers in the region . Ayutthaya reached its peak during cosmopolitan Narai 's reign ( 1656-1688 ) , gradually declining thereafter until being ultimately destroyed in the 1767 Burmese-Siamese War . Taksin ( r. 1767-1782 ) quickly reunified the fragmented territory and established the short-lived Thonburi Kingdom .
Chen Yanqing ( simplified Chinese : 陈艳青 ; traditional Chinese : 陳艷青 ; pinyin : Chén Yànqīng ; born May 4 , 1979 ) is a Chinese weightlifter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics . She won the gold medal in the 58 kg class in both competitions , making her the first woman to win gold medals in weightlifting in two consecutive Olympics . Chen was born in Suzhou , Jiangsu . She won her first gold medal in 1995 at the Junior Asian Women Weightlifting Championship , and another at a 1998 world championship . She was slated to compete at the 2000 Summer Olympics but was scratched from the Chinese Olympic lineup for strategic reasons a short time before the games began . She has also won the National Games and East Asia Games and set the world record in her weight class in the snatch and lift in 2006 .
Jang Mi-ran ( Korean pronunciation : [ tɕɐŋ.mi.ɾɐn ] ; born October 9 , 1983 ) is a South Korean Olympic weightlifter . She is currently based in Goyang , Gyeonggi-do , competing for the Goyang City Government Sports Club . At the 2004 Summer Olympics , she won the silver medal in the +75 kg category , with a total of 302.5 kg . On September 26 , 2007 , Jang won her third straight world championship overall title in the women 's +75 kg category by lifting 319 kg of overalls in total ( 138 kg in the snatch , 181 kg of overalls in the clean and jerk ) . She also surpassed the world record , which was set by herself in May 2006 in Wonju , Korea , by one kilogram . Mu Shuangshuang , who lifted 319 kg in overalls as well , ranked second because of bodyweight , but broke the record an attempt earlier . At the 2008 Summer Olympics , she won the gold medal in the +75 kg category . She broke the world records in the snatch with 140 kg , in the clean and jerk with 186 kg , and combined with 326 kg . She won the gold medal in the +75 kg division at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games . With this medal , which was her first gold in Asian Games , she completed the weightlifting equivalent of a grand slam as champion in the Summer Olympics , world championships and Asian Games . In February 2012 , Jang announced the launch of her new foundation , Jang Miran Foundation , and stated that the mission of the Jang Miran Foundation is [ to help ] young athletes in minor sports . After failing to get a medal in the 2012 London Olympics , Jang decided to retire in January 2013 , saying she wanted to focus on her foundation and continuing her education at Yong In University .
South Korea ( Korean : 한국/韓國 ; RR : Hanguk or literally 남한/南韓 ; RR : Namhan ) , officially the Republic of Korea ( Korean : 대한민국/大韓民國 ; RR : Daehan Minguk ) is a country in East Asia , constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea . The name Korea is derived from Goguryeo , which was one of the great powers in East Asia during its time , ruling most of the Korean Peninsula , Manchuria , parts of the Russian Far East and Inner Mongolia under Gwanggaeto the Great . Its capital , Seoul , is a major global city and half of South Korea 's over 51 million people live in the Seoul Capital Area , the fourth largest metropolitan economy in the world . The Korean Peninsula was inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period . Its first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early 7th century BC . Following the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea into Silla and Balhae in the late 7th century , Korea was ruled by the Goryeo dynasty ( 918-1392 ) and the Joseon dynasty ( 1392-1897 ) . The succeeding Korean Empire was annexed into the Empire of Japan in 1910 . After World War II , Korea was divided into Soviet and U.S.-administered zones , with the latter becoming the Republic of Korea in August 1948 . In 1950 , a North Korean invasion began the Korean War and after its end in 1953 , the country 's economy began to soar , recording the fastest rise in average GDP per capita in the world between 1980 and 1990 . Authoritarian rule ended in 1987 and the country is now the most advanced democracy with the highest level of press freedom in Asia . South Korea is a member of the OECD 's Development Assistance Committee , the G20 and the Paris Club . South Korea is a highly developed country and the world 's 12th-largest economy by nominal GDP .
Svetlana Podobedova ( Kazakh : Светлана Подобедова ; born May 25 , 1986 , Zima , Irkutsk ) is a Kazakh weightlifter of Russian descent .
Kazakhstan , [ b ] officially the Republic of Kazakhstan , [ c ] is a transcontinental country largely located in Central Asia with the most western parts of it being located in Eastern Europe . It is the world 's largest landlocked country , and the ninth largest country in the world , with an area of 2,724,900 square kilometres ( 1,052,100 sq mi ) . Kazakhstan is the most dominant nation of Central Asia economically , generating 60% of the region 's GDP , primarily through its oil and gas industry . It also has vast mineral resources . Kazakhstan is officially a democratic , secular , unitary , constitutional republic with a diverse cultural heritage . Kazakhstan shares borders with Russia , China , Kyrgyzstan , Uzbekistan , and Turkmenistan , and also adjoins a large part of the Caspian Sea . The terrain of Kazakhstan includes flatlands , steppe , taiga , rock canyons , hills , deltas , snow-capped mountains , and deserts . Kazakhstan has an estimated 18.3 million people as of 2018 [ update ] . Its population density is among the lowest , at less than 6 people per square kilometre ( 15 people per sq mi ) . Since 1997 and independence , the capital is Nur-Sultan , formerly known as Astana . It was moved from Almaty , the country 's largest city . The territory of Kazakhstan has historically been inhabited by nomadic groups and empires .