Qiu Jun

Qiu Jun, born in 1948 in Wuhan, China, into a family of Fuzhou origin, and died on 6 February 2020, was a Chinese bodybuilder and bodybuilding champion who claimed numerous prizes in the senior category. He won many national competitions and was ranked second in the international bodybuilding tournament called Olympic World Night in 2019, which took place in China. In 1964, after graduating from technical secondary school at age 16, he entered the Wuchang Vehicle Factory, where he was responsible for railway maintenance. In 1990 he took part in the first bodybuilding competition in Hubei Province on behalf of the factory and got fifth place in the province, and from then on he became obsessed with bodybuilding. He retired from the factory when the SARS outbreak occurred in 2003.