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Weightlifting At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 75 Kg
The women's +75 kilograms weightlifting event was the heaviest women's event at the weightlifting competition, allowing competitors with over 75 kilograms of body mass. The competition took place on August 16, starting at 19:00. 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. The winner of the event, Jang Mi-ran, broke three world records: the snatch (140 kg, +1 kg), the clean and jerk (186 kg, +4 kg) and the total (326 kg, +7 kg). With the disqualification of Olha Korobka and Mariya Grabovetskaya, Jang won the competition by 57kg, an Olympic record margin. Schedule All times are China Standard Time ( UTC+08:00) Records Results * Olha Korobka of Ukraine and Mariya Grabovetskaya of Kazakhstan originally finished second a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Vazhenina
Alla Ivanovna Vazhenina (born May 29, 1983) is a Russian weightlifter competing for Kazakhstan. She was born in Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast. When she was not selected for the Russian national team, she decided to compete for Kazakhstan.http://www.kurganobl.ru/5937.html , Russian lang. She won the silver medal in the 75 kg category at the 2008 Asian Weightlifting Championships, with a total of 266 kg. At the 2008 Summer Olympics she won the silver medal in the 75 kg category, again with a total of 266 kg. Recipient of the Order of Parasat The Order of Parasat ( kk, Парасат ордені, ''Parasat ordeni''; the Order of Nobility) is an order awarded by the government of Kazakhstan. It was established in 1993. The order is awarded to notable figures in the fields of science, .... Notes and references External links Athlete Biographyat beijing2008 People from Shadrinsk Living people 1983 births Recipients of the Order of Parasat Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone
Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone (CDMT; brand name Oral Turinabol), also known as 4-chloro-17β-hydroxy17α-methylandrosta-1,4-dien-3-one, is an anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS). It is the 4-chloro-substituted derivative of metandienone (dehydromethyltestosterone). Side effects *Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone History CDMT was the first original product of Jenapharm, an East German pharmaceutical company. It was patented in 1961. The idea of combining the structures of 4-chlorotestosterone (clostebol) and metandienone originated with chemist Albert Stachowiak. At the time, this represented a unique dissociation of anabolic from androgenic effects after oral administration. The product was introduced for clinical use in 1965 and remained in use until 1994, when production was discontinued. Society and culture Doping in sports CDMT was the key steroid administered to approximately ten thousand East German athletes as part of a secret doping program, known as State Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hripsime Khurshudyan
Hripsime Khurshudyan ( hy, Հռիփսիմե Խուրշուդյան, born July 27, 1987 in Kasakh, Armenian SSR) is an Armenian weightlifter. Early life Hripsime was born in the village Kasakh in the Nairi region of Armenian SSR. She has been training in weightlifting since she was 15 under the honored coach of Armenia, Sarmen Yesayan. Career Khurshudyan won a silver medal at the 2006 European Weightlifting Championships. She became the first woman weightlifter from the independent Republic of Armenia to win a medal at the European Weightlifting Championships. The following year, she and Meline Daluzyan became the first Armenian female weightlifters to become European Champions at the 2007 European Weightlifting Championships. Khurshudyan also became a Junior World Champion in 2007. Khurshudyan competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 75 kg weight class, finishing in 11th place. She was a late substitute for Meline Daluzyan, who suffered from an acute attack of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iryna Kulesha
Iryna Mikhailauna Kulesha ( be, Ірына Міхайлаўна Кулеша, born 26 June 1986 in Brest, Belarus or in Oberovshina) is a Belarusian weightlifter. Career Kulesha originally won an Olympic bronze medal in the under 75 kg weight category at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was coached by Viktor Shilay. On 21 November 2016, the IOC disqualified six medal winners in weightlifting for failing doping tests at the 2012 Games, including Kulesha, who was stripped of her medal. Four days earlier, on 17 November 2016, the IOC The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ... had disqualified Kulesha from the 2008 Olympic Games and struck her results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of her doping sample from 2008. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadezhda Evstyukhina
Nadezhda Alexandrovna Evstyukhina (russian: Надежда Александровна Евстюхина; born 27 May 1988) is a Russian weightlifter. Career In the 69 kg category, Evstyukhina won the silver medal at the 2005 Junior World Championships, and the gold medal at the 2006 Junior World Championships. Evstyukhina participated in the women's -75 kg class at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and won the silver medal, finishing behind Cao Lei. She snatched 122 kg and clean and jerked an additional 145 kg for a total of 267 kg, 1 kg behind winner Cao. At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she won the bronze medal in the 75 kg category, with a total of 278 kg. She also initially was awarded the bronze medal in the 75 kg category at the 2008 Summer Olympics, with a total of 264 kg. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but failed to snatch the initial weight. On 31 August 2016, the International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cao Lei
Cao Lei (; born 24 December 1983 in Qinhuangdao, Hebei) is a Chinese weightlifter. She was born in north China's Hebei Province and was raised in northeastern Heilongjiang Province. Career Cao Lei started weightlifting training at the age of 11 and attended Daging City sports school in 1997 when she was selected to the Heilongjiang province weightlifting team coached by Qixi Fu. Lei made her debut in the international field in 2001 after winning the national championships in Asian Championships 63 kilo category by winning gold with a result of 107,5 kg (a junior world record at the time) in snatch, and 127,5 kg in clean and jerk, totaling 235 kg. The next year she started training with national team under the supervision of Ma Wenhui and she moved 69 kilo weight class in which she won the junior world championships 2003 with 105+140 kg performance. In 2005 Cao placed fourth in the National games and later the year won gold in the East Asian Games. The next ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Poblete
Elizabeth Francesca Poblete Fernández (born 28 September 1987 in Santiago) is a Chilean weightlifter. Poblete represented Chile at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's heavyweight category (75 kg). Poblete placed twelfth in this event, as she successfully lifted 91 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 106 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead clean and jerk, for a total of 197 kg. On 8 December 2009, Poblete was featured in the world headlines, when she unexpectedly gave birth to a boy during a training session in Brazil, not even realizing that she was pregnant. Her boy was three months premature, and was taken to a local hospital in São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ... with his mother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuliya Novakovich
Yuliya Siarheyeuna Novakovich ( be, Юлія Сяргееўна Наваковіч; born May 6, 1989, in Pinsk) is a Belarusian weightlifter. Novakovich represented Belarus at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's heavyweight category, along with her compatriot Iryna Kulesha, who eventually won the silver medal. She placed tenth in this event, as she successfully lifted 110 kg in the snatch, and hoisted 127 kg in the clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ..., for a total of 237 kg. References External linksNBC 2008 Olympics profile Belarusian female weightlifters 1989 births Living people Olympic weightlifters for Belarus Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Pinsk {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadiya Myronyuk
Nadiya Mykolaïvna Myronyuk ( uk, Надія Миколаївна Миронюк; born March 25, 1984 in Volyn Oblast) is a Ukrainian weightlifter. Career Myronyuk represented Ukraine at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's heavyweight category (75 kg). Myronyuk placed ninth in this event, as she successfully lifted 105 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 132 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ..., for a total of 237 kg. References External linksNBC 2008 Olympics profile Ukrainian female weightlifters 1984 births Living people Olympic weightlifters of Ukraine Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Volyn Oblast 21st-ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeane Lassen
Jeane Elizabeth Lassen (born 26 September 1980) is a Canadian weightlifter. Lassen is from Whitehorse, Yukon and is one of few Yukon athletes to break into the world scene and is Yukon's first Summer Olympian. Weightlifting official Moira Lassen is her mother. At 14 years old, Lassen won a silver medal in the women's 59 kg category at the 1995 Canada Winter Games in Grande Prairie, Alberta and still holds the Games record in the Clean & Jerk. She also won the Roland Michener Award for her leadership on and off the field of play. This, of course, was before she became a national athlete. Lassen qualified to compete at the 1995 Canadian Championships and the 1995 Junior World Weightlifting Championships (the first junior international event for women) however Lassen had to go to court to do so. Lassen competed at six Junior World Weightlifting Championships (1995-2000) and is one of the few athletes, both men and women, in the world to do so. She is a three-time silver medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ubaldina Valoyes
Ubaldina Valoyes Cuesta (born July 6, 1982 in Quibdó, Chocó) is a female weightlifter from Colombia. She won a gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Games for her native South American country. Valoyes has represented Colombia at the Summer Olympics three times: in 2004, 2008 and 2012. She won the – 75 kg gold medal in snatch and clean & jerk during the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival The I Pan American Sports Festival (Spanish: ''Festival Deportivo Panamericano'') was a multi-sport event held between 11 July and 30 September 2014 in Mexico. The Festival was organized by the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO). Venues Th .... References External links sports-reference 1982 births Living people Olympic weightlifters for Colombia Weightlifters at the 2003 Pan American Games Weightlifters at the 2007 Pan American Games Weightlifters at the 2011 Pan American Games Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |