Suvarna Garge (Editor)

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

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Competitors
  
12 from 11 nations

End date
  
August 15, 2008

Start date
  
2008

The women's 75 kg 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.

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

  • Nadezhda Evstyukhina originally finished third, but was disqualified in 2016 after samples from Beijing 2008 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and EPO.
  • Iryna Kulesha of Belarus originally finished fourth, but was disqualified in 2016 after she tested positive for oral turinabol.
  • Hripsime Khurshudyan was disqualified after actual retests in 2016 of her samples from 2008 revealed the presence of stanozolol.
  • References

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


    Similar Topics