Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 58 kg explained

Event:	Women's 58 kg
Games:	2008 Summer
Venue:	Beihang University Gymnasium
Date:	11 August
Competitors:	12
Nations:	11
Gold:	Chen Yanqing
Goldnoc:	CHN
Silver:	O Jong-ae
Silvernoc:	PRK
Bronze:	Wandee Kameaim
Bronzenoc:	THA
Prev:	2004
Next:	2012

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics. The women's 58 kilograms weightlifting event was the third women's event at the weightlifting competition, with competitors limited to a maximum of 58 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took place on August 11, 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 fourth 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

width=150	Date	width=50	Time	width=80	Event
11 August 2008	15:30	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	57.66	100	103	106	106	130	132	138	138	244
		A	57.15	95	98	98	95	125	131	131	131	226
		A	57.25	95	98	100	98	125	128	129	128	226
4		A	57.82	96	96	99	99	120	124	127	124	223
5		A	57.56	95	98	100	98	110	115	118	118	216
6		A	57.66	92	92	95	95	120	125	126	120	215
7		A	57.88	82	86	89	89	111	115	115	115	204
8		A	57.51	90	90	90	90	112	115	116	112	202
9		A	57.70	90	95	95	90	105	110	113	110	200
10		A	56.28	80	85	90	85	102	102	107	107	192
11		A	57.15	74	78	82	78	95	100	100	95	173
DQ		A	57.93	95	98	98	98	125	128	129	129	227

• Marina Shainova of Russia originally won the silver medal, but she was disqualified after a re-analysis of her 2008 sample tested positive for steroids.^[1]

New records

Clean & Jerk	width=70	131 kg	width=250 align=left		width=70
132 kg
138 kg
Total	238 kg
	244 kg

References

• Page 2633

Notes and References

1. https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-six-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-tests-at-beijing-2008 IOC sanctions six athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008