Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 75 kg

The women's 75 kilograms weightlifting event was the sixth women's event at the weightlifting 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.^[1]

Women's 75 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Date	15 August 2008
Competitors	12 from 11 nations
Medalists
Alla Vazhenina  Kazakhstan Lydia Valentín  Spain Damaris Aguirre  Mexico
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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.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Date	Time	Event
15 August 2008	15:30	Group A

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World Record	Snatch	Natalya Zabolotnaya (RUS)	131 kg	Chiang Mai, Thailand	25 September 2007
	Clean & Jerk	Liu Chunhong (CHN)	159 kg	Doha, Qatar	13 November 2005
	Total	Svetlana Podobedova (RUS)	286 kg	Hangzhou, China	2 June 2006
Olympic Record	Snatch	Natalya Zabolotnaya (RUS)	125 kg	Athens, Greece	20 August 2004
	Clean & Jerk	Pawina Thongsuk (THA)	150 kg	Athens, Greece	20 August 2004
	Total	Natalya Zabolotnaya (RUS)	272 kg	Athens, Greece	20 August 2004

Results

Rank	Athlete	Group	Body weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
				1	2	3	Result	1	2	3	Result
	Alla Vazhenina (KAZ)	A	73.88	115	115	119	119	141	145	147	147	266
	Lydia Valentín (ESP)	A	74.42	110	110	115	115	130	135	138	135	250
	Damaris Aguirre (MEX)	A	74.82	103	106	109	109	130	135	136	136	245
4	Ubaldina Valoyes (COL)	A	73.30	105	110	110	110	130	134	138	134	244
5	Jeane Lassen (CAN)	A	74.42	105	105	110	105	130	135	140	135	240
6	Nadiya Myronyuk (UKR)	A	74.11	102	105	105	105	125	127	132	132	237
7	Yuliya Novakovich (BLR)	A	74.19	105	110	110	110	115	122	127	127	237
8	Elizabeth Poblete (CHI)	A	74.43	86	91	93	91	106	111	111	106	197
DQ	Cao Lei (CHN)	A	73.16	120	125	128	128	147	154	159	154	282
DQ	Nadezhda Evstyukhina (RUS)	A	73.33	112	117	117	117	138	143	147	147	264
DQ	Iryna Kulesha (BLR)	A	74.78	112	116	118	118	128	133	137	137	255
DQ	Hripsime Khurshudyan (ARM)	A	74.74	100	105	110	105	125	130	130	130	235

• Cao Lei 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.^[2]
• Nadezhda Evstyukhina 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 dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and EPO.^[3]
• Iryna Kulesha of Belarus originally finished fourth, but was disqualified in 2016 after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for oral turinabol.^[4]
• Hripsime Khurshudyan of Armenia originally finished eleventh, but she was disqualified after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for stanozolol.^[5]

New records

Snatch	128 kg	Cao Lei (CHN)	OR
Clean & Jerk	154 kg	Cao Lei (CHN)	OR
Total	275 kg	Cao Lei (CHN)	OR
	282 kg	Cao Lei (CHN)	OR