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.IOC sanctions six athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008
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* Andrei Rybakou of Belarus originally won the silver medal, but he was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of his 2008 sample.IOC sanctions nine athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008
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* Ilya Ilyin of Kazakhstan and Khadzhimurat Akkaev of Russia originally won the gold and medal bronze medal respectively, but they were disqualified after positive anti-doping tests of their 2008 samples.IOC sanctions seven athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012
/ref>IOC sanctions 16 athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008
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* Dmitry Lapikov of Russia originally won the bronze medal, but he was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of his 2008 sample.
* Chen Xiexia of China and Sibel Özkan of Turkey originally won the gold and silver medal respectively, but they were disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of their 2008 samples.IOC sanctions eight athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012
/ref> IOC sanctions Turkish weightlifter for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008
/ref>SIBEL ÖZKAN KONAK APPEAL DISMISSED BY THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT
, from tas-cas.org, official website of the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
* Nastassia Novikava of Belarus originally won the bronze medal, but she was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of her 2008 sample.
* Marina Shainova of Russia originally won the silver medal, but she was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of her 2008 sample.
* Irina Nekrassova of Kazakhstan originally won the silver medal, but she was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of her 2008 sample.
* Liu Chunhong of China and Nataliya Davydova of Ukraine originally won the gold and bronze medal respectively, but they were disqualified after positive anti-doping tests of their 2008 samples.
* Cao Lei of China and Nadezhda Evstyukhina of Russia originally won the gold and bronze medal respectively, but they were disqualified after positive anti-doping test of their 2008 samples.
* Olha Korobka of Ukraine and Mariya Grabovetskaya of Kazakhstan originally won the silver and bronze medal respectively, but they were disqualified after positive anti-doping test of their 2008 samples.

Medal table

Participating nations

A total of 255 weightlifters from 84 nations competed at the Beijing Games:

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References

External links

International Weightlifting Federation

Official Result Book – Weightlifting

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2008 Summer Olympics events
Olympics
2008
International weightlifting competitions hosted by China