Lijiao GONG

Lijiao Gong - China - Shot put bronze medal at 2013 World Championships.

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 12 August 2013

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    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Tuesday, 24 January 1989
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Luquan, Hebei, China.
  • INTERNATIONAL
  • China
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Lijiao GONG - China - Shot put bronze medal at 2013 World Championships.

Lijiao Gong shows her bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.

The year before, at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she also won the bronze

medal - the with a put of 20.22m

 

2013 World Championships Moscow

Final women's shot put.

 1 Valerie AdAMS
 NZL
 20.88
 2  Cristina SCHWANITZ
 GER  20.41 PB
 3  Lijiao GONG
 CHN  19.95
 4  Michelle CARTER
 USA  19.94
 5  Evgeniia KOLODKO
 RUS  19.81
 6  Ling LI
 CHN 18.39
 7  Irina TARASOVA
 RUS  18.37
 8  TIA BROOKS
 USA  18.09

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Women's Shot Put final
2012 London Olympic Games.

1. Valerie ADAMS   NZL   20.70
2. Lijiao GONG   CHN
  20.22
3. Ling LI   CHN
  19.63
4. Michelle CARTER   USA
  19.42
5. Liu XIANGRONG   CHN
  19.18
6. Geisa ARCANJO   BRA
  19.02
    Nadezhda OSTAPCHUK
BEL
DISQ 
21.36
    Yevgeniya KOLODKO
  RUS
DISQ 20.48
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