[citation needed] Lu is best known for her gold medal on the uneven bars in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Lu Li and Lavinia Miloșovici remain the last two people to score perfect 10s in Olympic competition to date.

Lu Li also won a silver on the beam in the same games (tied with American Shannon Miller with a score of 9.912).

Lu competed in the 1993 Chinese National Games and won the uneven bars title (tied with Luo Li, who would go on to win the 1994 World Championships in Brisbane).

On September 1, 2009, Li, Kim, and JD moved to Washington and she was hired to coach at Emerald City Gymnastics in Redmond.