Gong Li (born 16 August 1999) is a Chinese karateka who won a bronze medal at the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2023, she won the gold medal in the women's 61kg event at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China, and successfully defended her title at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
Life She was educated at Beijing Sport University and she lives in Beijing.
In 2018, she represented her country at the world championships in Madrid, Spain.
In 2020, she won the 68 kg weight class at the national championships.
She represented her country at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. An early match was against the eventual Gold Medal winner Feryal Abdelaziz of Egypt. She lost (4–0). She went on to the semi-finals where she took the bronze medal.
She won the gold medal in the women's 61kg event at the 2023 World Karate Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. Later that year, she won the women's 61 kg kumite gold medal at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
In 2026, she successfully defended her Asian Games title by winning the women's 61 kg kumite gold medal at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. She defeated Japan's Sarara Shimada (6–2) and Malaysia's Zakiah Adnan (8–1) before defeating South Korea's An Jeong-eun (8–0) in the semifinals. In the final, she defeated Kazakhstan's Assel Kanay (8–2) to win the gold medal.
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