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1999 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's +75 kg
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The Women's Super Heavyweight Weightlifting Event (+ 75 kg) is the heaviest women's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, open to competitors over 75 kilograms of body mass. The competition at the 1999 World Weightlifting Championships took place in Athens, Greece on November 27, 1999.
Each lifter performed in both the snatch and clean and jerk 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.
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Medalists
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Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch |  Agata Wróbel (POL) | 125.0 kg | Spała, Poland | 26 September 1999 |
| Clean & Jerk |  Ding Meiyuan (CHN) | 156.0 kg | Chiba, Japan | 3 May 1999 | |
| Total | Ding Meiyuan (CHN) | 275.0 kg | Chiba, Japan | 3 May 1999 |
Results
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New records
| Snatch | 127.5 kg | Agata Wróbel (POL) |
WR |
| Clean & Jerk | 157.5 kg | Ding Meiyuan (CHN) |
WR |
| Total | 277.5 kg | Ding Meiyuan (CHN) |
WR |
| 280.0 kg | Agata Wróbel (POL) |
WR | |
| 282.5 kg | Ding Meiyuan (CHN) |
WR | |
| 285.0 kg | Ding Meiyuan (CHN) |
WR |
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References
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