Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 75 kg
| Women's 75 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | ||||||||
| Date | 15 August | |||||||
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| Competitors | 12 from 11 nations | |||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||
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| 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 | |||||
| DSQ | Cao Lei (CHN) | A | 73.16 | 120 | 125 | 128 | 128 | 147 | 154 | | 154 | 282 |
 |  Alla Vazhenina (KAZ) | A | 73.88 | | 115 | 119 | 119 | 141 | 145 | 147 | 147 | 266 |
| DSQ | Nadezhda Evstyukhina (RUS) | A | 73.33 | 112 | | 117 | 117 | 138 | 143 | 147 | 147 | 264 |
| DSQ | .svg.png){kind=small} Iryna Kulesha (BLR) | A | 74.78 | 112 | 116 | 118 | 118 | 128 | 133 | 137 | 137 | 255 |
| 5 |  Lidia Valentín (ESP) | A | 74.42 | | 110 | 115 | 115 | 130 | 135 | | 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 | 130 | 134 | | 134 | 244 |
| 8 |  Jeane Lassen (CAN) | A | 74.42 | | 105 | | 105 | 130 | 135 | | 135 | 240 |
| 9 |  Nadiya Myronyuk (UKR) | A | 74.11 | 102 | | 105 | 105 | 125 | 127 | 132 | 132 | 237 |
| 10 | Yuliya Novakovich (BLR) | A | 74.19 | 105 | | 110 | 110 | 115 | 122 | 127 | 127 | 237 |
| 11 |  Elizabeth Poblete (CHI) | A | 74.43 | 86 | 91 | | 91 | 106 | | | 106 | 197 |
| DSQ[1] |  Hripsime Khurshudyan (ARM) | A | 74.74 | 100 | 105 | | 105 | 125 | | 130 | 130 | — |
- Cao Lei of China originally finished with the gold medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for hormones and related substances.[2]
- Nadezhda Evstyukhina originally finished third, but was disqualified in 2016 after samples from Beijing 2008 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and EPO.[3]
- Iryna Kulesha of Belarus originally finished fourth, but was disqualified in 2016 after she tested positive for oral turinabol.[2]
- Hripsime Khurshudyan was disqualified after actual retests in 2016 of her samples from 2008 revealed the presence of stanozolol.[4]
New records
| Snatch | Cao Lei (CHN) |
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| Total | Cao Lei (CHN) |
OR | |
| Clean & Jerk | Cao Lei (CHN) |
OR | |
| Total | Cao Lei (CHN) |
OR |
References
- ↑ IOC sanctions four athletes for failing anti-doping tests
- 1 2 International Weightlifting Federation (24 August 2016). "PUBLIC DISCLOSURES". Retrieved 2016-10-07.
- ↑ https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-six-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-tests-at-beijing-2008
- ↑ International Weightlifting Federation (18 June 2016). "PUBLIC DISCLOSURES". Retrieved 2016-10-07.
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