1999 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 75 kg

1999 World Weightlifting
Championships
MenWomen
56 kg48 kg
62 kg53 kg
69 kg58 kg
77 kg63 kg
85 kg69 kg
94 kg75 kg
105 kg+75 kg
+105 kg
Main article: 1999 World Weightlifting Championships

The Women's Heavyweight Weightlifting Event (75 kg) is the sixth women's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limited to competitors with a maximum of 75 kilograms of body mass. The competition at the 1999 World Weightlifting Championships took place in Athens, Greece on November 26, 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.

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Snatch  Xu Jiao (CHN) 112.5 kg  Kim Soon-hee (KOR) 107.5 kg  Ruth Ogbeifo (NGR) 107.5 kg
Clean & Jerk  Kim Soon-hee (KOR) 135.0 kg  Xu Jiao (CHN) 135.0 kg  Ruth Ogbeifo (NGR) 132.5 kg
Total  Xu Jiao (CHN) 247.5 kg  Kim Soon-hee (KOR) 242.5 kg  Ruth Ogbeifo (NGR) 240.0 kg

Records

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

World Record Snatch  Tang Weifang (CHN) 116.0 kg Wuhan, China 3 September 1999
Clean & Jerk  Tang Weifang (CHN) 141.0 kg Wuhan, China 3 September 1999
Total  Tang Weifang (CHN) 255.0 kg Wuhan, China 3 September 1999

Results

Rank Athlete Body weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Xu Jiao (CHN) 74.32 107.5 110.0 112.5 1st place, gold medalist(s) 130.0 135.0 137.5 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 247.5
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Kim Soon-hee (KOR) 73.31 100.0 105.0 107.5 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 130.0 135.0 135.0 1st place, gold medalist(s) 242.5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Ruth Ogbeifo (NGR) 74.61 102.5 107.5 110.0 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 130.0 132.5 135.0 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 240.0
4  Kuo Yi-hang (TPE) 74.63 102.5 107.5 107.5 7 132.5 137.5 137.5 4 235.0
5  Tatyana Khromova (KAZ) 74.98 100.0 105.0 107.5 4 120.0 125.0 130.0 5 235.0
6  Karoliina Lundahl (FIN) 74.87 102.5 107.5 107.5 8 125.0 130.0 130.0 9 227.5
7  Cara Heads (USA) 72.99 97.5 102.5 105.0 5 117.5 122.5 122.5 9 225.0
8  Aye Mon Khin (MYA) 75.00 102.5 102.5 102.5 9 122.5 122.5 130.0 12 225.0
9  Wanda Rijo (DOM) 74.02 92.5 97.5 97.5 11 120.0 125.0 130.0 7 222.5
10  Mónica Carrió (ESP) 74.03 100.0 102.5 105.0 6 115.0 120.0 122.5 14 222.5
11  Gyöngyi Likerecz (HUN) 74.77 95.0 100.0 102.5 10 120.0 122.5 125.0 11 222.5
12  Svetlana Khabirova (RUS) 71.32 95.0 100.0 100.0 15 115.0 120.0 125.0 6 220.0
13  Line Mary (FRA) 74.25 95.0 97.5 100.0 12 115.0 115.0 120.0 15 217.5
14  Theresa Brick (CAN) 74.93 92.5 97.5 97.5 14 112.5 117.5 120.0 16 217.5
15  Stephanie Mantek (GER) 71.68 92.5 95.0 97.5 16 115.0 120.0 122.5 13 215.0
16  Jeane Lassen (CAN) 74.08 87.5 92.5 95.0 18 117.5 122.5 122.5 10 215.0
17  Ilona Dankó (HUN) 74.65 97.5 102.5 102.5 13 112.5 117.5 122.5 17 215.0
18  Theano Zagkliveri (GRE) 74.06 85.0 90.0 90.0 20 105.0 110.0 110.0 19 200.0
19  Romi Devi (IND) 74.63 85.0 85.0 90.0 21 105.0 110.0 115.0 20 200.0
20  Caroline Pileggi (AUS) 74.94 85.0 90.0 90.0 23 110.0 115.0 115.0 22 195.0
21  Iwona Mikołajczewska (POL) 73.75 85.0 90.0 92.5 19 100.0 105.0 105.0 28 190.0
22  Anja Moldenhauer (GER) 72.95 80.0 85.0 85.0 22 102.5 107.5 107.5 25 187.5
23  Amanda Phillips (AUS) 69.81 77.5 80.0 80.0 24 100.0 105.0 105.0 23 185.0
24  Beate Amdahl (NOR) 73.55 75.0 77.5 80.0 25 105.0 110.0 110.0 24 185.0
25  Cinthya Domínguez (MEX) 73.69 80.0 80.0 85.0 26 100.0 105.0 105.0 27 180.0
26  Zuzana Kováčová (SVK) 72.35 77.5 82.5 82.5 27 100.0 105.0 105.0 26 177.5
27  Kineret Vainstein (ISR) 70.25 60.0 65.0 70.0 28 67.5 72.5 77.5 29 137.5
—  Oksana Sukhoruk (UKR) 73.81 95.0 95.0 95.0 17 120.0 120.0 120.0 — —
—  Mylona Kleanthi (GRE) 71.38 80.0 80.0 80.0 — 105.0 100.0 115.0 18 —
—  Mihaela Geambașu (ROM) 74.89 100.0 100.0 100.0 — 110.0 120.0 120.0 21 —
DQ  Michele David (MRI) 74.81 75.0 77.5 80.0 — 95.0 97.5 100.0 — —

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