Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Weightlifting; at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beihang University Gymnasium
Dates	9–19 August 2008
No. of events	15
Competitors	253 from 83 nations
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Weightlifting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China were held from August 9 to August 19. Competitions were conducted at the Beihang University Gymnasium.

The medal records at the 2008 Games were heavily amended following a re-analysis of competitors samples in 2015, 2016 and 2017. 26 lifters were disqualified due to these tests, including 16 medalists and four lifters who stood to inherit forfeited medals.

Qualification

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	5	1	0	6
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	0	4
3	Russia (RUS)	1	2	0	3
4	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	1	0	2
4	North Korea (PRK)	1	1	0	2
6	Thailand (THA)	1	0	2	3
7	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
8	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	0	1
	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
11	Colombia (COL)	0	2	0	2
12	Armenia (ARM)	0	1	1	2
13	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Georgia (GEO)	0	1	0	1
	Samoa (SAM)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
	Vietnam (VIE)	0	1	0	1
18	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	3	3
18	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	3	3
20	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	1	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		15	15	15	45

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details	Long Qingquan China	Hoàng Anh Tuấn Vietnam	Eko Yuli Irawan Indonesia
62 kg details	Zhang Xiangxiang China	Diego Salazar Colombia	Triyatno Indonesia
69 kg^[a] details	Liao Hui China	Vencelas Dabaya France	Yordanis Borrero Cuba
77 kg details	Sa Jae-hyouk South Korea	Li Hongli China	Gevorg Davtyan Armenia
85 kg^[b] details	Lu Yong China	Tigran Martirosyan Armenia	Jadier Valladares Cuba
94 kg^[c] details	Szymon Kołecki Poland	Arsen Kasabiev Georgia	Yoandry Hernández Cuba
105 kg^[d] details	Andrei Aramnau Belarus	Dmitry Klokov Russia	Marcin Dołęga Poland
+105 kg details	Matthias Steiner Germany	Evgeny Chigishev Russia	Viktors Ščerbatihs Latvia

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg^[e] details	Chen Wei-ling Chinese Taipei	Im Jyoung-hwa South Korea	Pensiri Laosirikul Thailand
53 kg^[g] details	Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon Thailand	Yoon Jin-hee South Korea	Raema Lisa Rumbewas Indonesia
58 kg^[h] details	Chen Yanqing China	O Jong-ae North Korea	Wandee Kameaim Thailand
63 kg^[i] details	Pak Hyon-suk North Korea	Lu Ying-chi Chinese Taipei	Christine Girard Canada
69 kg^[j] details	Oxana Slivenko Russia	Leydi Solís Colombia	Abeer Abdelrahman Egypt
75 kg^[k] details	Alla Vazhenina Kazakhstan	Lydia Valentín Spain	Damaris Aguirre Mexico
+75 kg^[l] details	Jang Mi-ran South Korea	Ele Opeloge Samoa	Mariam Usman Nigeria

^{Men's 69 kg} Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan of Armenia originally won the bronze medal, but he was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of his 2008 sample.^[1]
^{Men's 85 kg} Andrei Rybakou of Belarus originally won the silver medal, but he was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of his 2008 sample.^[2]
^{Men's 94 kg} Ilya Ilyin of Kazakhstan and Khadzhimurat Akkaev of Russia originally won the gold and bronze medal respectively, but they were disqualified after positive anti-doping tests of their 2008 samples.^[3]^[4]
^{Men's 105 kg} Dmitry Lapikov of Russia originally won the bronze medal, but he was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of his 2008 sample.^[4]
^{Women's 48 kg} Chen Xiexia of China and Sibel Özkan of Turkey originally won the gold and silver medal respectively, but they were disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of their 2008 samples.^[5]^[6]^[7]
^{Women's 53 kg} Nastassia Novikava of Belarus originally won the bronze medal, but she was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of her 2008 sample.^[2]
^{Women's 58 kg} Marina Shainova of Russia originally won the silver medal, but she was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of her 2008 sample.^[1]
^{Women's 63 kg} Irina Nekrassova of Kazakhstan originally won the silver medal, but she was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of her 2008 sample.^[4]
^{Women's 69 kg} Liu Chunhong of China and Nataliya Davydova of Ukraine originally won the gold and bronze medal respectively, but they were disqualified after positive anti-doping tests of their 2008 samples.^[5]^[4]
^{Women's 75 kg} Cao Lei of China and Nadezhda Evstyukhina of Russia originally won the gold and bronze medal respectively, but they were disqualified after positive anti-doping test of their 2008 samples.^[5]^[1]
^{Women's +75 kg} Olha Korobka of Ukraine and Mariya Grabovetskaya of Kazakhstan originally won the silver and bronze medal respectively, but they were disqualified after positive anti-doping test of their 2008 samples.^[2]^[4]