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Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 69 kg

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Competitors
  
30 from 26 nations

Date
  
12 August 2008

Location
  
Beihang University Gymnasium, Beijing, China

Venue
  
Beihang University Gymnasium

The men's 69 kg weightlifting event was the third lightest men's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 69 kilograms of body mass. The competition took place between August 11 and 12 and was divided in three parts due to the large amount of competitors. Group C weightlifters competed at 12:30 on the 11th, Group B competed at 10:00 on the 12th, and Group A at 19:00. This event was the seventh Weightlifting event to conclude.

Contents

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)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Results

  • Tigran Martirosyan of Armenia originally won the bronze medal, but in 2016, he was stripped of his medal following reanalysis of his samples from the 2008 Olympics, resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances stanozolol and turinabol.
  • References

    Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 69 kg Wikipedia