The Women's 69 kilograms weightlifting event at the

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Summary

Total score was the sum of the lifter's best result in each of the snatch and 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 ...

, with three lifts allowed for each lift. In case of a tie, the lighter lifter won; if still tied, the lifter who took the fewest attempts to achieve the total score won. Lifters without a valid snatch score did not perform the clean and jerk.

Maryna Shkermankova Maryna Ivanauna Shkermankova ( be, Марына Іванаўна Шкерманкова; born 9 April 1990 in Hlybokaye, Belarus) is a weightlifter representing Belarus. She initially won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the &ndas ...

of Belarus originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a retest of her 2012 sample was positive for steroids, fourth-placed

Dzina Sazanavets Dzina Sazanavets (born 25 October 1990 in Klichaw, Belarus) is a Olympic weightlifting, weightlifter representing Belarus. She was placed fourth at the 2012 Summer Olympics at the women's Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women' ...

of Belarus was also disqualified for the same reason.

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 ...

of Romania originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified in 2020 after a failed retest of her sample from 2012 tested positive for doping.IOC sanctions three athletes for failing anti-doping tests at London 2012
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Schedule

All times are

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Records

* Liu Chunhong's world and Olympic records from the year 2008 were rescinded in 2017.

Results

References

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