Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 75 kg

Women's 75 kg
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Date15 August
Competitors12 from 11 nations
Medalists
   China
   Kazakhstan
   Russia
Weightlifting at the
2008 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 75 kg weightlifting event was the sixth women's event at the weightlifting competition, with competitors limited to a maximum of 75 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took place on August 15 at 15:30. This event was the ninth 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
15 August 2008 15:30 Group A

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record Snatch  Natalia Zabolotnaya (RUS) 131 kg Chiang Mai, Thailand 25 September 2007
Clean & Jerk  Liu Chunhong (CHN) 159 kg Doha, Qatar 13 November 2005
Total  Svetlana Podobedova (RUS) 286 kg Hangzhou, China 2 June 2006
Olympic record Snatch  Natalia Zabolotnaya (RUS) 125 kg Athens, Greece 20 August 2004
Clean & Jerk  Pawina Thongsuk (THA) 150 kg Athens, Greece 20 August 2004
Total  Natalia Zabolotnaya (RUS) 272 kg Athens, Greece 20 August 2004

Results

Rank Athlete Group Body weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
1 2 3 Result 1 2 3 Result
1st  Cao Lei (CHN) A 73.16 120 125 128 128 147 154 159 154 282
2nd  Alla Vazhenina (KAZ) A 73.88 115 115 119 119 141 145 147 147 266
3rd  Nadezhda Evstyukhina (RUS) A 73.33 112 117 117 117 138 143 147 147 264
4  Iryna Kulesha (BLR) A 74.78 112 116 118 118 128 133 137 137 255
5  Lidia Valentín (ESP) A 74.42 110 110 115 115 130 135 138 135 250
6  Damaris Aguirre (MEX) A 74.82 103 106 109 109 130 135 136 136 245
7  Ubaldina Valoyes (COL) A 73.30 105 110 110 110 130 134 138 134 244
8  Jeane Lassen (CAN) A 74.42 105 105 110 105 130 135 140 135 240
9  Nadiya Myronyuk (UKR) A 74.11 102 105 105 105 125 127 132 132 237
10  Yuliya Novakovich (BLR) A 74.19 105 110 110 110 115 122 127 127 237
11  Hripsime Khurshudyan (ARM) A 74.74 100 105 110 105 125 130 130 130 235
12  Elizabeth Poblete (CHI) A 74.43 86 91 93 91 106 111 111 106 197

New records

Snatch 128 kg  Cao Lei (CHN) OR
Total 275 kg  Cao Lei (CHN) OR
Clean & Jerk 154 kg  Cao Lei (CHN) OR
Total 282 kg  Cao Lei (CHN) OR

References

    This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, November 22, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.