The women's 75 kilograms weightlifting event was the sixth women's event at the

weightlifting Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift Weight training#Equipment, weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various t ...

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. 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.

Schedule

All times are

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( UTC+08:00)

Records

Results

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 1 ...

of China originally won the gold medal, but was disqualified after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for GHRP-2 and GHRP-2 M2. *

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 C ...

of Russia originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for

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(turinabol) and EPO. *

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 wei ...

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originally finished fourth, but was disqualified in 2016 after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for

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. *

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 b ...

of Armenia originally finished eleventh, but she was disqualified after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for stanozolol.

New records

References

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