1999 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 53 kg

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The women's featherweight event (53 kilograms) is the second women's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limited to competitors with a maximum of 53 kilograms of body mass. The competition at the 1999 World Weightlifting Championships took place in Athens, Greece on November 21, 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	Li Feng-ying (TPE)	95.0 kg	Winarni Binti Slamet (INA)	90.0 kg	Swe Swe Win (MYA)	85.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Li Feng-ying (TPE)	120.0 kg	Winarni Binti Slamet (INA)	112.5 kg	Wang Xiufen (CHN)	112.5 kg
Total	Li Feng-ying (TPE)	215.0 kg	Winarni Binti Slamet (INA)	202.5 kg	Wang Xiufen (CHN)	197.5 kg

Records

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

World Record	Snatch	Meng Xianjuan (CHN)	97.5 kg	Chiba, Japan	1 May 1999
	Clean & Jerk	Li Feng-ying (TPE)	121.0 kg	Wuhan, China	30 August 1999
	Total	Meng Xianjuan (CHN)	217.5 kg	Chiba, Japan	1 May 1999

Results

Rank	Athlete	Body weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
			1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
	Li Feng-ying (TPE)	52.66	90.0	92.5	95.0		115.0	121.5	121.5		215.0
	Winarni Binti Slamet (INA)	52.14	85.0	87.5	90.0		105.0	110.0	112.5		202.5
	Wang Xiufen (CHN)	52.93	85.0	85.0	90.0	8	110.0	112.5	117.5		197.5
4	Supeni Wasiman (INA)	52.89	85.0	90.0	90.0	7	110.0	110.0	112.5	5	195.0
5	Mari Nakaga (JPN)	52.85	80.0	82.5	85.0	10	105.0	110.0	110.0	4	192.5
6	Swe Swe Win (MYA)	51.55	80.0	85.0	87.5		105.0	110.0	110.0	6	190.0
7	Franca Gbodo (NGR)	52.55	80.0	85.0	87.5	5	105.0	105.0	110.0	7	190.0
8	Robin Goad (USA)	52.58	80.0	85.0	87.5	6	97.5	102.5	105.0	10	187.5
9	Izabela Dragneva (BUL)	52.28	82.5	87.5	87.5	9	102.5	107.5	107.5	9	185.0
10	Taengmo Muangpho (THA)	52.47	80.0	85.0	85.0	4	95.0	100.0	105.0	12	185.0
11	Nandini Devi (IND)	52.90	75.0	80.0	85.0	13	97.5	102.5	107.5	11	182.5
12	Estefanía Juan (ESP)	52.92	75.0	77.5	77.5	16	100.0	102.5	105.0	8	180.0
13	Karla Fernández (VEN)	52.80	80.0	80.0	82.5	11	97.5	97.5	97.5	14	177.5
14	Noriko Hasegawa (JPN)	52.36	72.5	75.0	77.5	14	92.5	97.5	100.0	13	175.0
15	Siyka Stoeva (BUL)	52.80	72.5	77.5	80.0	12	92.5	97.5	97.5	17	172.5
16	Michal Shahar (ISR)	52.85	77.5	82.5	82.5	15	92.5	95.0	95.0	18	170.0
17	Adriana Gallego (COL)	52.36	70.0	70.0	70.0	19	90.0	95.0	95.0	15	165.0
18	Abigail Guerrero (ESP)	52.94	70.0	75.0	77.5	17	85.0	90.0	92.5	20	165.0
19	Silvia Puxeddu (ITA)	52.47	67.5	72.5	72.5	18	90.0	95.0	95.0	19	162.5
20	Bibiana Muñoz (COL)	52.42	65.0	67.5	67.5	22	92.5	92.5	95.0	16	160.0
21	Evdokia Chatziavramidou (GRE)	52.49	67.5	67.5	70.0	20	85.0	90.0	90.0	21	155.0
22	Lisbeth Østergaard (DEN)	52.80	62.5	65.0	67.5	23	80.0	82.5	85.0	22	150.0
23	Maria Elisabete Jorge (BRA)	52.12	60.0	65.0	65.0	21	77.5	82.5	82.5	23	147.5
24	Maria Monteiro (POR)	52.13	60.0	62.5	62.5	25	75.0	80.0	82.5	24	140.0
25	Maria Lagoa (POR)	52.63	62.5	62.5	65.0	24	75.0	77.5	77.5	25	140.0
26	Andrea Piková (SVK)	52.88	52.5	52.5	55.0	26	67.5	72.5	75.0	26	125.0
—	Maria Bohm (SWE)	52.88	67.5	67.5	67.5	—	—	—	—	—	—

New records

Clean & Jerk

121.5 kg

Li Feng-ying (TPE)

WR

References

• Weightlifting Databank
• Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics, Pages 19–20 Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine