Chinese Taipei's "Goddess of Weightlifting" Guo Qianchun, who won the bronze medal at the Paris Olympics and completed the feat of winning medals in three consecutive Olympic Games, will continue to compete in the 2026 Nagoya Asian Games. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) recently wrote an article about the history of weightlifting in Chinese Taipei, and praised Guo Qianchun as the greatest weightlifter in Chinese Taipei.

The IWF praised Guo as Chinese Taipei's greatest weightlifter

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) pointed out that Chinese Taipei's most successful event in the Olympic Games is weightlifting, which has accumulated a total of 43 Olympic medals so far, of which 11 have been contributed to weightlifting, ranking the highest among all events. Chinese Taipei's first weightlifting medal dates back to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, when weightlifting was limited to men, Tsai Wenyi won the bronze medal in the men's weightlifting 60 kg class, with a snatch of 125 kg and a clean and jerk of 147.5 kg, with a total score of 272.5 kg, and is currently the only male athlete in Chinese Taipei to have an Olympic weightlifting medal.

Since the 2000 women's weightlifting officially entered the Olympics, so far all 10 medals have been organized by the Chinese Taipei women's generals, Li Fengying and Guo Yihan won the silver medal and bronze medal in the 53 kg and 75 kg classes respectively, since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Chinese Taipei weightlifting women will be able to win medals in every Olympic Games, Chen Weiya won the bronze in the women's 48 kg weight class in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and later because the gold medal and silver medalists failed the drug test, and then supplemented the gold medal, becoming the first Olympic weightlifting gold medalist in the history of Chinese Taipei. Lu Yingqi won the silver medal in the 63kg class of the year. In addition, Chen won a bronze medal in the 64kg category at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which were postponed for one year due to the pandemic.

Nevin also named Hsu Shujing and Guo Chun as the only two female weightlifters in Chinese Taipei with more than two medals at the Olympics, Xu Shujing won the gold medal in the 53kg category at the 2012 London Olympics and the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Guo Qianchun stood on the podium for three consecutive times, becoming the first person in Chinese Taipei, first bronze at the Rio Olympics, then gold in the 59kg class at the Tokyo Olympics, completing the feat of gold Grand Slam, and winning another bronze medal at the Paris Olympics last year.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) praised Guo as Chinese Taipei's greatest weightlifter, in addition to her brilliant achievements at the Olympics, she has also won five consecutive World Championships, six Asian Games gold medals, so far, the 31-year-old Guo has set 11 world records, becoming a legend in the weightlifting world.