Lü Huihui

Lü Huihui (; born 26 June 1989) is a Chinese athlete who competes in the javelin throw. She won the silver medal at the 2015 World Championships and bronze medals at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships.

A late-bloomer in the event, she did not throw beyond fifty metres until her twenties, but broke the Asian record for the event in 2012 with a mark of 64.95 m. She improved this to 66.13 m in 2015 and to an Asian record of 67.59 m in 2017.

Career Born in Xinxiang in the province of Henan, she began taking part in javelin competitions as a teenager. In 2005, she was fifth at the national youth championships and came runner-up at the national high school championships. Lu started to attend Zhengzhou University in 2007 and stopped competing in the sport at that point. On the following year's circuit she improved to 58.72 metres and was in the top two at all the meets, winning in Jiaxing. This form failed to translate at the Chinese Athletics Championships, however, as she threw only 52.69 metres and finished 13th in her first national final. Lu competed abroad for the first time, appearing at two German meets, and a second-place finish at the National Grand Prix final as well as a throw of 64.86 m in Dalian assured her selection for the Chinese delegation for the 2012 London Olympics. Her worst overall performance that year was at the Chinese Championships, which was the only meet where sere she did reach sixty metres, but her runner-up placing behind Chang Chunfeng was still her best ever performance nationally.

Lü opened 2013 as she had the previous year, winning on the national circuit and breaking the Asian record – this time with a throw of 65.62 m. In April 2014 IAAF announced that Lü had tested positive for a prohibited substance at the competition where she'd set the record, and that she had been serving a 1-year doping ban from 24 May 2013 to 23 May 2014.

At the 2015 World Championships, she won a silver medal, with a throw of 66.13 m, a then Asian record. It was China's first medal in the women's javelin since 1991.

As well as setting a new personal best, in 2017 she also won a bronze medal at the World Championships, with a throw of 65.26 m.