Lü Wei (softball)

Lü Wei, born on 21 June 1983 in Beijing, is a Chinese softball pitcher, 1.80 metres tall, who competed at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, the 2006 world championship and the 2006 World Cup of Softball. She started competing in 1998 and joined the national team in 2002. In the 2004 Olympic softball competition she finished fourth with the Chinese team and played seven matches as a pitcher. She came off elbow surgery in March 2007, an operation and recovery that took place in Cincinnati, where Team China flew her for treatment.