The women's 87 kg weightlifting event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games took place at the National Exhibition Centre on 2 August 2022. The weightlifter from Australia won the gold, with a combined lift of 255 kg.[1]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing World, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:[2] When the previous records and weight classes were discarded following readjustment, the IWF defined "world standards" as the minimum lifts needed to qualify as world records (WR), CommonWealth Authority defined "Commonwealth standards" and "Commonwealth games standards" as the minimum lifts needed to qualify as Commonwealth record (CR) and Commonwealth games record (GR) in the new weight classes. Wherever World Standard/Commonwealth Standard/Commonwealth Games Standard appear in the list below, no qualified weightlifter has yet lifted the benchmark weights in a sanctioned competition.
Men:+82.5 kg (1950) / +90 kg (1954–1966) / 110 kg (1970–1990) / 108 kg (1994) / 105 kg (1998–2018) / 109 kg (2022-) Women:75 kg (2002–2014) / 90 kg (2018) / 87 kg (2022-)