The women's 69 kilograms weightlifting event was the fifth women's event at the
weightlifting competition, with competitors limited to a maximum of 69 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took place on August 13, 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 eighth 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 China Standard Time ( UTC+08:00)
Records
Results
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Liu Chunhong
Liu Chunhong (; born January 29, 1983, in Yantai, Shandong) is a Chinese weightlifter
Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded w ...
of China originally won the gold medal, but she was disqualified after a positive anti-doping retest of her 2008 sample.
[IOC sanctions eight athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012]
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* Nataliya Davydova
Nataliya Anatoliyivna Davydova ( uk, Наталія Анатоліївна Давидова) (born 22 July 1985 in Sherlovaya Gora, Chita Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian weightlifter.
Career
She won the bronze medal in the 69& ...
of Ukraine originally finished third, but she was disqualified in November 2016 after she tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.
New records
References
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