Lü Wei (diver)

Lü Wei (Chinese: 吕伟; pinyin: Lǚ Wěi, 1966 – 9 May 1990) was a Chinese diver who competed in women's 10-metre platform.

[1] She missed the 1984 Summer Olympics due to an injury.

(Her replacement Zhou Jihong won the Olympic gold medal.

[2]) Lü Wei was murdered in 1990 along with her friend, Peking opera artist Xun Linglai, in Xun's home.

Lü was then working for the sports bureau in her hometown of Yangzhou, and was on a business trip to Beijing, where Xun lived.