The Women's Lightweight Weightlifting Event (58 kg) is the third women's
weight class event at the
weightlifting competition, limited to competitors with a maximum of 58 kilograms of body mass. The competition at the
1999 World Weightlifting Championships
The 1999 World Weightlifting Championships were held at Peace and Friendship Stadium in Piraeus, Athens, Greece from November 21 to November 28, 1999.
It was the main qualifying events in the sport for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Austral ...
took place in
Athens, Greece
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on 22 November 1999.
Each lifter performed in both the
snatch and
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 ...
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.
Medalists
Records
Results
New records
References
Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics, Page 20
External links
Weightlifting Databank
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- Women's 58 kg, 1999 World Weightlifting Championships
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