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Weightlifting At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 58 Kg
The women's 58 kilograms weightlifting event was the third women's event at the weightlifting competition, with competitors limited to a maximum of 58 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took place on August 11, 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 fourth 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 ( UTC+08:00) Records Results * Marina Shainova Marina Vladimirovna Shainova (russian: Марина Владимировна Шаинова; born 14 March 1986 in Krasnodar Krai) is a Russian weightlifter. Career Shainova won the Junior World Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beihang University Gymnasium
Beihang University Gymnasium (, sometime listed as the Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics Gymnasium) is a 5,400-seat indoor arena located on the campus of Beihang University in Beijing, China. It hosted weightlifting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics and powerlifting competitions at the 2008 Summer Paralympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was .... ReferencesBeijing2008.cn profile Venues of the 2008 Summer Olympics Sports venues in Beijing Indoor arenas in China Olympic weightlifting venues University sports venues in China Sports venues completed in 2001 2001 establishments in China {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely because of its cultural and political influence on the European continent—particularly Ancient Rome. In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weightlifting At The 2008 Summer Olympics
Weightlifting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China were held from August 9 to August 19. Competitions were conducted at the Beihang University Gymnasium. The medal records at the 2008 Games were heavily amended following re-analysis of competitors samples in 2015, 2016 and 2017. 26 lifters were disqualified as a result of these tests, including 16 medalists and four lifters who stood to inherit forfeited medals. Events 15 sets of medals were awarded in the following events: Qualification Medalists Men Women * Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan of Armenia originally won the bronze medal, but he was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of his 2008 sample. * Andrei Rybakou of Belarus originally won the silver medal, but he was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of his 2008 sample. * Ilya Ilyin of Kazakhstan and Khadzhimurat Akkaev of Russia originally won the gold and medal bronze medal respectively, but they were disqualified after p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Shainova
Marina Vladimirovna Shainova (russian: Марина Владимировна Шаинова; born 14 March 1986 in Krasnodar Krai) is a Russian weightlifter. Career Shainova won the Junior World Championships twice, 2005 in the 58 kg category, and 2006 in the 63 kg category. She competed in the women's 58 kg at the 2005 World Championships in Doha, Qatar and won the bronze medal with 233 kg in total. At the 2006 European Championships in Władysławowo, Poland she won gold in the Women's 58 kg with 237 kg in total, breaking three European records. She won another gold medal at the 2007 European Weightlifting Championships. At the 2007 World Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand she won the silver medal in the Women's 58 kg with 237 kg in total. Shainova won the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 58 kg category. In 2016, she was stripped of her medal and disqualified from the Beijing 2008 Olympics following rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Hale
Wendy Hale (born November 3, 1987"Weightlifter Wendy" ''Solomon Star'' July 25, 2008) is a . She won a silver medal and a bronze at the in 2004, two silver medals at the |
Hidilyn Diaz
Hidilyn Francisco Diaz-Naranjo (; born February 20, 1991) is a Filipino World and Olympic champion weightlifter and airwoman, the first Filipino to ever win an Olympic gold medal for the Philippines. She is also an Olympic weightlifting record holder by winning the women's 55 kg category for weightlifting at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In her early weightlifting years, she was a bronze medalist in the 2007 SEA Games in Thailand and achieved 10th place at the 2006 Asian Games in the 53-kilogram class. While she was a student and representing Universidad de Zamboanga, she won two golds and one silver in the Asian Youth/Junior Weightlifting Championship held in Jeonju, South Korea.Hidilyn Diaz nbcolympics.com She competed in the |
Marieta Gotfryd
Marieta Gotfryd (born 11 September 1980 in Gorna Oryahovitsa, Bulgaria) is a Polish weightlifter. At the 2001 World Championships she won the bronze medal in the 58 kg category. She also won the bronze medal in the same category at the 2005 European Championships. She competed in the Women's 58 kg at the 2005 World Championships in Doha, Qatar and reached the 5th spot with 212 kg in total. At the 2008 Summer Olympics she ranked 10th in the 58 kg category. Now she represents club Tytan Oława Oława (pronounced , , szl, Oława) is a historic town in south-western Poland with 33,029 inhabitants (2019). It is situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (from 1975–1998 it was in the former Wrocław Voivodeship), within the Wrocław me .... Notes and references External links Athlete Biographyat beijing2008 1980 births Living people Polish female weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Poland Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics People f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geralee Vega
Gerald Vega Morales (born July 22, 1986) is a Puerto Rican weightlifter. Vega represented Puerto Rico at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's lightweight category (58 kg). Vega placed ninth in this event, as she successfully lifted 90 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 112 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 202 kg. References External linksNBC Olympics ProfileGeralee Vega Olympics Profile Puerto Rican female weightlifters 1986 births Living people Olympic weightlifters for Puerto Rico Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics American female weightlifters 20th-century Puerto Rican women 21st-century Puerto Rican women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roxana Cocoș
Roxana Cocoș (; born 5 June 1989 in Bucharest) is a Romanian weightlifter. On 1 August 2012, Cocoș won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the –69 kg category with a snatch of 113 kg and a clean and jerk of 143 kg, giving a total of 256 kg. She had previously finished in 7th in the -58 kg category at the 2008 Summer Olympics, with a snatch of 89 kg and a clean and jerk of 115 kg, giving a total of 204 kg. On 25 November 2020, the reanalysed doping tests from the 2012 Summer Olympics turned out positive for metenolone and stanozolol, and she was stripped of the medal. In June 2021, a report by the International Testing Agency on doping violations between 2009 and 2019 reviewed her case and concluded that there are "strong reasons to think" the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) was aware of urine samples being swapped by weightlifters and that president of the IWF Tamás Aján and IWF vice-president Nicu Vlad Nico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandra Klejnowska
Aleksandra Jadwiga Klejnowska-Krzywanska (born 17 December 1982 in Legnica) is a Polish weightlifter. Life and career She was born in 1982 in Legnica. She represented Poland at the 2000 Summer Olympics, ranking fifth in the 58 kg category, with a total of 202.5 kg. She became world champion in the 58 kg category at the 2001 World Championships, with a total of 215 kg. On 11 April 2002 Aleksandra Klejnowska and Dominika Misterska failed a drug test carried out in training by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Both appealed, but the IWF Executive Board, decided on 17 November 2002 to suspend them for two years, even though there was evidence from the National Public Prosecutor's Office that the material was not doping. After the suspension ended, during the 2004 Summer Olympics, she was ranked fifth in the 58 kg category, with a total of 220 kg. She won a silver medal during the 2005 European Weightlifting Championships, and ranked second in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
