Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 69 kg explained

Event:	Women's 69 kg
Games:	2008 Summer
Venue:	Beihang University Gymnasium
Date:	13 August
Competitors:	10
Nations:	9
Gold:	Oxana Slivenko
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Leydi Solís
Silvernoc:	COL
Bronze:	Abeer Abdelrahman
Bronzenoc:	EGY
Prev:	2004
Next:	2012

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics. The women's 69 kilograms weightlifting event was the fifth women's event at the weightlifting competition, with competitors limited to a maximum of 69 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took place on August 13, 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 eighth 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
13 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	68.47	110	115	115	115	136	140	—	140	255
		A	67.54	99	103	105	105	125	132	135	135	240
		A	69.00	100	105	105	105	133	133	136	133	238
4		A	68.63	100	104	106	106	120	124	124	124	230
5		A	68.65	105	110	110	105	120	126	126	120	225
6		A	68.65	87	87	90	87	115	120	122	122	209
—		A	65.33	87	90	93	90	120	120	120	—	—
—		A	68.07	103	103	103	—	—	—	—	—	—
DQ		A	68.87	120	125	128	128	145	149	158	158	286
DQ		A	68.63	110	113	115	115	130	133	135	135	250

• Liu Chunhong of China originally won the gold medal, but she was disqualified after a positive anti-doping retest of her 2008 sample.^[1]
• Nataliya Davydova of Ukraine originally finished third, but she was disqualified in November 2016 after she tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.^[2]

New records

Snatch	width=70	125 kg	width=250 align=left		width=70
128 kg
Clean & Jerk	158 kg
Total	277 kg
	286 kg

References

• Page 2641

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 16 athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008. IOC. 17 November 2016.