Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 69 kg
| Women's 69 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | ||||||||||
| Venue | Beihang University Gymnasium | |||||||||
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| Date | 13 August | |||||||||
| Competitors | 10 from 9 nations | |||||||||
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| Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics  | |||||
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| 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 69 kg weightlifting event was the fifth women's event at the weightlifting competition, with competitors limited to a maximum of 69 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took place on August 13, but was divided in two parts due to the number of competitors. Group B weightlifters competed at 12:30, and Group A, at 15:30. This event was the eighth Weightlifting event to conclude.
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.
Schedule
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2008 | 15:30 | Group A |
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Snatch |  Oksana Slivenko (RUS) |
123 kg | Santo Domingo, Dominican | 4 October 2006 |
| Clean & Jerk | Zarema Kasayeva (RUS) |
157 kg | Doha, Qatar | 13 November 2005 | |
| Total | Oksana Slivenko (RUS) |
276 kg | Chiang Mai, Thailand | 24 September 2007 | |
| Olympic record | Snatch |  Liu Chunhong (CHN) | 122 kg | Athens, Greece | 19 August 2004 |
| Clean & Jerk | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | 152 kg | Athens, Greece | 19 August 2004 | |
| Total | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | 275 kg | Athens, Greece | 19 August 2004 |
Results
| Rank | Athlete | Group | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | |||||
 | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | A | 68.87 | 120 | 125 | 128 | 128 | 145 | 149 | 158 | 158 | 286 |
 | Oksana Slivenko (RUS) | A | 68.47 | 110 | | 115 | 115 | 136 | 140 | — | 140 | 255 |
 |  Nataliya Davydova (UKR) | A | 68.63 | 110 | 113 | 115 | 115 | 130 | 133 | 135 | 135 | 250 |
| 4 |  Leydi Solís (COL) | A | 67.54 | 99 | 103 | 105 | 105 | 125 | 132 | 135 | 135 | 240 |
| 5 |  Abeer Abdelrahman (EGY) | A | 69.00 | 100 | | 105 | 105 | | 133 | | 133 | 238 |
| 6 | Tulia Medina (COL) | A | 68.63 | 100 | 104 | 106 | 106 | 120 | | 124 | 124 | 230 |
| 7 | .svg.png){kind=small} Hanna Batsiushka (BLR) | A | 68.65 | 105 | | | 105 | 120 | | | 120 | 225 |
| 8 |  Rika Saito (JPN) | A | 68.65 | | 87 | | 87 | 115 | 120 | 122 | 122 | 209 |
| — |  Iriner Jiménez (VEN) | A | 65.33 | 87 | 90 | | 90 | | | | — | — |
| — |  Hong Yong-ok (PRK) | A | 68.07 | | | | — | — | — | — | — | — |
New records
| Snatch | 125 kg | Liu Chunhong (CHN) |
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| Snatch | 128 kg | Liu Chunhong (CHN) |
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| Total | 277 kg | Liu Chunhong (CHN) |
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| Clean & Jerk | 158 kg | Liu Chunhong (CHN) |
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| Total | 286 kg | Liu Chunhong (CHN) |
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