Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 75 kg
| Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics  | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Women | ||||
| 56 kg | 48 kg | ||||
| 62 kg | 53 kg | ||||
| 69 kg | 58 kg | ||||
| 77 kg | 63 kg | ||||
| 85 kg | 69 kg | ||||
| 94 kg | 75 kg | ||||
| 105 kg | +75 kg | ||||
| +105 kg | |||||
The Women's Heavyweight Weightlifting Event (– 75 kg) is the sixth weight class in women's weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 75 kilograms of body mass. The competition took place on 2000-09-20 in the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. The women's weightlifters made their olympic debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Each lifter performed in both the snatch and clean and jerk lifts, with the final score being the sum of the lifter's best result in each. The athlete received three attempts in each of the two lifts; the score for the lift was the heaviest weight successfully lifted.
María Isabel Urrutia became the first ever colombian gold medalist at Summer Olympics.
Medalists
| Gold |  María Isabel UrrutiaColombia (COL) |
| Silver |  Ruth OgbeifoNigeria (NGR) |
| Bronze |  Kuo Yi-HangChinese Taipei (TPE) |
Results
| Rank | Name | NOC | Body Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total (kg) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
 | María Isabel Urrutia | Colombia | 73.28 | 105.0 | | 110.0 | 132.5 | 135.0 | | 245.0 |
 | Ruth Ogbeifo | Nigeria | 74.20 | 105.0 | | | 135.0 | 140.0 | | 245.0 |
 | Kuo Yi-Hang | Chinese Taipei | 74.52 | 105.0 | 107.5 | | 135.0 | 137.5 | | 245.0 |
| 4 | Kim Soon-Hee |  South Korea | 73.84 | 105.0 | | | 135.0 | | | 240.0 |
| 5 | Gyöngyi Likerecz |  Hungary | 74.16 | 102.5 | 105.0 | | 122.5 | | | 227.5 |
| 6 | Svetlana Kabirova |  Russia | 74.38 | 102.5 | | | 125.0 | | | 227.5 |
| 7 | Cara Heads |  United States | 72.64 | | | 102.5 | 120.0 | | | 222.5 |
| 8 | Wanda Rijo |  Dominican Republic | 73.74 | 90.0 | 95.0 | | | | 120.0 | 215.0 |
| 9 | Mónica Carrio |  Spain | 74.18 | 92.5 | | 95.0 | | 110.0 | | 205.0 |
| – | Karoliina Lundahl |  Finland | 74.36 | | | | — | — | — | DNF |
| – | Tatyana Khromova |  Kazakhstan | 74.68 | 105.0 | 110.0 | | | | | DNF |
References
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