Luo Shifang Explained

Luo Shifang (; born 2 April 2001) is a Chinese weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the women's 59kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.^[3]

Career

Luo took up weightlifting at the age of 12. She started practicing to improve her physical fitness.^[4]

Luo won a medal in the women's 59kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships, held in Bogotá, Colombia.^[5] She won the gold medal in her event at the 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in Jinju, South Korea.^[6]

In 2023, she won the gold medal in the women's 59kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.^{[7] [8]} She won the silver medal in her event at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China.^[9]

She is the current gold medalist on Women's 59 Kg by winning at 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris on August 8, 2024. In this occasion she established three Olympic records on weightlifting: Snatch, Clean & Jerk and Total score.

Major results

Year	Venue	Weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean and jerk (kg)				Total	Rank
width=65	1	width=65	2	width=65	3	width=45	Rank	width=65	1	width=65	2	width=65	3	width=45	Rank
Olympic Games
	align=left	Paris, France		101	105	107		129	134	137		241
World Championships
	align=left	Bogotá, Colombia		101	104	104	5	126	129	133		230	4
	align=left	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia		101	104	107		128	133	136		243
IWF World Cup
	Phuket, Thailand	59 kg	103	108	108		133	140	140		248 CWR
Asian Games
	Hangzhou, China		100	104	107		128	133	140		240
Asian Championships
2023	Jinju, South Korea	59 kg	98	102	105		126	130	133		238

• CWR: Current world record
• OR: Olympics record

Notes and References

1. https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2024/05/2024-IWF-WYC_Start-Book_WOMEN-v1.1.pdf IWF Youth World Championships - Lima 2024 - Start Book Women
2. Web site: 18 September 2021 . 视频丨桂阳籍举重选手罗诗芳破全国青年纪录夺冠 . Guiyang-born weightlifter Luo Shifang breaks the national youth record to win the championship . 9 August 2024 . zh.
3. Web site: Weightlifting Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20240811193408/https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WLF/OG2024_WLF_B99_WLF-------------------------------.pdf . 11 August 2024 . 12 August 2024 . 2024 Summer Olympics.
4. Web site: LUO Shifang . Paris 2024 . 16 August 2024.
5. Web site: 2022 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20221217071304/https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2022/12/Bogota-Results-Book.pdf . 17 December 2022 . 17 December 2022 . IWF.
6. Web site: 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20230520121742/https://www.awfederation.com/images/Results_Book_JINJU_2023.pdf . 20 May 2023 . 18 July 2024 . Asian Weightlifting Federation.
7. News: Oliver . Brian . 8 September 2023 . Luo puts last year's failure behind her to give China another title at IWF World Championships . 29 September 2023 . InsideTheGames.biz.
8. Web site: 2023 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20230917164936/https://iwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2023/09/2023_KSA_ResultsBook_.pdf . 17 September 2023 . 17 September 2023 . International Weightlifting Federation.
9. Web site: Weightlifting Medalists . https://web.archive.org/web/20231008163054/https://info.hangzhou2022.cn/resAG2022-/pdf/AG2022-/WLF/AG2022-_WLF_C93_WLF-------------------------------.pdf . 8 October 2023 . 8 October 2023 . 2022 Asian Games.