Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 75 kg explained

Event:	Women's 75 kg
Games:	2008 Summer
Date:	15 August
Competitors:	12
Nations:	11
Gold:	Alla Vazhenina
Goldnoc:	KAZ
Silver:	Lydia Valentín
Silvernoc:	ESP
Bronze:	Damaris Aguirre
Bronzenoc:	MEX
Prev:	2004
Next:	2012

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics. 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

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15 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	73.88	115	115	119	119	141	145	147	147	266
		A	74.42	110	110	115	115	130	135	138	135	250
		A	74.82	103	106	109	109	130	135	136	136	245
4		A	73.30	105	110	110	110	130	134	138	134	244
5		A	74.42	105	105	110	105	130	135	140	135	240
6		A	74.11	102	105	105	105	125	127	132	132	237
7		A	74.19	105	110	110	110	115	122	127	127	237
8		A	74.43	86	91	93	91	106	111	111	106	197
DQ		A	73.16	120	125	128	128	147	154	159	154	282
DQ		A	73.33	112	117	117	117	138	143	147	147	264
DQ		A	74.78	112	116	118	118	128	133	137	137	255
DQ		A	74.74	100	105	110	105	125	130	130	130	235

• 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

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Clean & Jerk	154 kg
Total	275 kg
	282 kg

References

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Beijing 2008 Weightlifting - Olympic Results by Discipline.
2. Web site: IOC sanctions eight athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 . Olympics.
3. Web site: IOC sanctions six athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008. 14 July 2021.
4. Web site: PUBLIC DISCLOSURES. International Weightlifting Federation. 24 August 2016. 2016-10-07.
5. Web site: PUBLIC DISCLOSURES. International Weightlifting Federation. 18 June 2016. 2016-10-07.