Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 48 kg explained

Event:	Women's 48 kg
Games:	2008 Summer
Venue:	Beihang University Gymnasium
Date:	9 August
Competitors:	14
Nations:	11
Gold:	Chen Wei-ling
Goldnoc:	TPE
Silver:	Im Jyoung-hwa
Silvernoc:	KOR
Bronze:	Pensiri Laosirikul
Bronzenoc:	THA
Prev:	2004
Next:	2012

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics. The women's 48 kilograms weightlifting event is the lightest women's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 48 kilograms of body mass. The competition took place on August 9 at 10:00 and was the first Weightlifting event to conclude. It was the second set of medals to be awarded at the Games, a few moments after the women's 10m Air Rifle.

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.

Chen Xiexia and Sibel Özkan initially won the gold and the silver medals, but in 2016 their results were annulled due to a doping violation from a reanalysis of samples from 2008.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time

width=150	Date	width=50	Time	width=80	Event
9 August 2008	10:00	Group A

Results

Rank	Athlete	Group	Body weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
width=40	1	width=40	2	width=40	3	width=55	Result	width=40	1	width=40	2	width=40	3	width=55	Result
		A	47.11	84	87	87	84	108	112	115	112	196
		A	47.62	83	86	88	86	106	110	113	110	196
		A	47.67	85	85	85	85	110	114	114	110	195
4		A	47.35	80	82	82	80	105	110	110	105	185
5		A	47.91	75	78	80	80	97	100	100	97	177
6		A	47.62	77	80	80	80	92	96	96	92	172
7		A	47.62	79	82	82	79	92	92	97	92	171
8		A	47.75	73	76	78	76	90	90	96	90	166
9		A	47.07	65	65	71	65	83	83	85	85	150
—		A	47.95	84	84	84	—	—	—	—	—	—
—		A	47.85	82	82	82	—	—	—	—	—	—
DQ		A	47.46	90	93	95	95	113	115	117	117	212
DQ		A	47.80	86	88	88	88	108	108	111	111	199
DQ		A	47.84	84	84	84	—	—	—	—	—	—

• Chen Xiexia of China originally won the gold medal, but she was disqualified following a positive anti-doping test of her 2008 sample.^[1]
• Sibel Özkan of Turkey originally won the silver medal, but she was disqualified following a positive anti-doping test of her 2008 sample.^[2] On 1 December 2016, the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed Özkan's final appeal.^[3]

New records

width=100	Clean & Jerk	width=70	117 kg	width=250 align=left		width=70
Total	212 kg

References

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Notes and References

1. Web site: IOC sanctions eight athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 . Olympics.
2. Web site: IOC sanctions Turkish weightlifter for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 . Olympics.
3. Web site: SIBEL ÖZKAN KONAK APPEAL DISMISSED BY THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT . Court of Arbitration for Sport.