Women's 75 kg
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Date | 15 August |
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Competitors | 12 from 11 nations |
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Medalists |
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The women's 75 kilograms 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.[1]
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.
Results
- Cao Lei of China originally won the gold medal, but was disqualified after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for GHRP-2 and GHRP-2 M2.[2]
- Nadezhda Evstyukhina of Russia originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and EPO.[3]
- Iryna Kulesha of Belarus originally finished fourth, but was disqualified in 2016 after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for oral turinabol.[4]
- Hripsime Khurshudyan of Armenia originally finished eleventh, but she was disqualified after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for stanozolol.[5]
New records
References
- ^ "Beijing 2008 Weightlifting - Olympic Results by Discipline".
- ^ "IOC sanctions eight athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012". Olympics.
- ^ "IOC sanctions six athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008". 14 July 2021.
- ^ International Weightlifting Federation (24 August 2016). "PUBLIC DISCLOSURES". Retrieved 2016-10-07.
- ^ International Weightlifting Federation (18 June 2016). "PUBLIC DISCLOSURES". Retrieved 2016-10-07.
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- 75 kg (2000–2016)
- 87 kg (2020)
- 81 kg (2024–)
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