2008 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting
Weightlifting at the XXIX. Olympic Games |
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venue | Beijing |
Competition venue | Beihang University |
Nations | 84 |
Athletes | 253 (87 women, 166 men) |
date | 9-19 August 2008 |
decisions | 15th |
← Athens 2004 |
At the XXIX. 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing found 15 competitions in weightlifting instead. The venue was the sports hall at Beihang University in the Haidian district .
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | China | 5 | 1 | - | 6th |
2 | South Korea | 2 | 2 | - | 4th |
3 | Russia | 1 | 2 | - | 3 |
4th | Chinese Taipei | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
North Korea | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | |
6th | Thailand | 1 | - | 2 | 3 |
7th | Poland | 1 | - | 1 | 2 |
8th | Germany | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Kazakhstan | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
Belarus | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
11 | Colombia | - | 2 | - | 2 |
12 | Armenia | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
13 | France | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Georgia | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
Samoa | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
Spain | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
Vietnam | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
18th | Indonesia | - | - | 3 | 3 |
Cuba | - | - | 3 | 3 | |
20th | Egypt | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Canada | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
Latvia | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
Mexico | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
Nigeria | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Medalist
Results men
Class up to 56 kg (bantam weight)
space | country | athlete |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | CHN | Long Qingquan | 132 | 160 | 292 |
2 | VIE | Hoàng Anh Tuấn | 130 | 160 | 290 |
3 | IRI | Eko Yuli Irawan | 130 | 158 | 288 |
4th | TPE | Yang Chin-Yi | 128 | 157 | 285 |
5 | PRK | Cha Kum-chol | 128 | 155 | 283 |
6th | CUB | Sergio Álvarez Boulet | 120 | 152 | 272 |
7th | TPE | Wang Shin-Yuan | 115 | 150 | 265 |
8th | MAS | Amirul Hamizan Ibrahim | 121 | 144 | 265 |
9 | JPN | Masaharu Yamada | 106 | 153 | 259 |
10 | THA | Pongsak Maneetong | 116 | 142 | 258 |
Date: August 10, 2008, 10:00 a.m. (group B) / 7:00 p.m. (group A)
19 participants from 16 countries
Class up to 62 kg (feather weight)
space | country | athlete |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | CHN | Zhang Xiangxiang | 143 | 176 | 319 |
2 | COL | Diego Salazar | 138 | 167 | 305 |
3 | INA | Triyatno | 135 | 163 | 298 |
4th | ROME | Antoniu Buci | 130 | 165 | 295 |
5 | THA | Phaisan Hansawong | 132 | 162 | 294 |
6th | CUB | Lázaro Maikel Ruíz | 132 | 162 | 294 |
7th | TKM | Tolkunbek Hudaýbergenow | 126 | 162 | 288 |
8th | EGY | Mohamed Abd Elbaki | 129 | 159 | 288 |
9 | TPE | Yang Sheng-hsiung | 130 | 157 | 187 |
10 | BLR | Henads Machvyayenya | 129 | 159 | 288 |
Date: August 11, 2008, 10:00 a.m. (Group B) / 7:00 p.m. (Group A)
17 participants from 15 countries
The Azerbaijani Sərdar Həsənov , who did not finish the competition, was disqualified in October 2016 after a post-doping test showed a positive result.
Class up to 69 kg (lightweight)
space | country | athlete |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | CHN | Liao Hui | 158 | 190 | 348 |
2 | FRA | Vencelas Dabaya | 151 | 187 | 338 |
3 | CUB | Yordanis Borrero | 148 | 180 | 328 |
4th | AZE | Turan Mirzəyev | 146 | 181 | 327 |
5 | PRK | Kim Chol-jin | 146 | 180 | 326 |
6th | AZE | Əfqan Bayramov | 145 | 175 | 320 |
7th | THA | Sitthisak Suphalak | 147 | 171 | 318 |
8th | JPN | Yoshito Shintani | 135 | 175 | 310 |
9 | EGY | Tarek Yehia | 138 | 172 | 310 |
10 | INA | Edi Kurniawan | 135 | 172 | 307 |
Date: August 11, 2008, 12:30 p.m. (Group C) or August 12, 2008, 10:00 a.m. (Group B) / 7:00 p.m. (Group C)
30 participants from 26 countries
As a later convicted doping sinner, the Armenian Tigran Martirosjan was disqualified in August 2016 and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) revoked his bronze medal. The originally ninth-placed Moldovan Alexandru Dudoglo also had to be disqualified for doping .
Class up to 77 kg (middle weight)
space | country | athlete |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | COR | Sa Jae-hyouk | 163 | 203 | 366 |
2 | CHN | Li Hongli | 168 | 198 | 366 |
3 | POOR | Geworg Dawtjan | 165 | 195 | 360 |
4th | COR | Kim Kwang-hoon | 155 | 200 | 355 |
5 | RUS | Oleg Perepetschenow | 162 | 192 | 354 |
6th | CUB | Ivan Cambar | 157 | 196 | 353 |
7th | POOR | Ara Khachatryan | 162 | 191 | 353 |
8th | POLE | Krzysztof Szramiak | 161 | 191 | 352 |
9 | KAZ | Vladimir Kuznetsov | 160 | 191 | 351 |
10 | BLR | Sjarhej Lahun | 157 | 192 | 349 |
Date: August 13, 2008, 10:00 a.m. (Group B) / 7:00 p.m. (Group A)
28 participants from 25 countries
Class up to 85 kg (light heavy weight)
space | country | athlete |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | CHN | Lu Yong | 180 | 214 | 394 |
2 | POOR | Tigran Martirosjan | 177 | 203 | 380 |
3 | CUB | Jadier Valladares | 169 | 203 | 372 |
4th | FRA | Benjamin Hennequin | 162 | 205 | 367 |
5 | UZB | Mansurbek Shashemov | 165 | 202 | 367 |
6th | AZE | İntiqam Zairov | 166 | 195 | 361 |
7th | COL | Carlos Andica | 155 | 201 | 356 |
8th | KGZ | Ulanbek Moldodosov | 152 | 194 | 346 |
9 | SVK | Ondrej Kutlík | 150 | 193 | 343 |
10 | NGR | Benedict Uloko | 148 | 191 | 339 |
Date: August 15, 2008, 10:00 a.m. (Group B) / 7:00 p.m. (Group A)
21 participants from 19 countries
Belarusian Andrej Rybakou , originally placed second , received a temporary ban in August 2016 after it became known that he had taken dehydrochloromethyltestosterone and stanozolol at the 2008 Olympic Games . The IOC therefore withdrew the silver medal from him. Also in August 2016, the International Weightlifting Association announced that fourth-placed Kazakh Vladimir Sedov had also been doped with stanozolol during his competition.
Class up to 94 kg (medium weight)
space | country | athlete |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | POLE | Szymon Kołecki | 179 | 224 | 403 |
2 | GEO | Arsen Kasabiev | 176 | 223 | 399 |
3 | CUB | Johandrys Hernandez | 178 | 215 | 393 |
4th | IRI | Asghar Ebrahimi | 180 | 212 | 392 |
5 | RUS | Roman Konstantinov | 175 | 212 | 387 |
6th | GER | Jürgen Spieß | 173 | 211 | 384 |
7th | ESP | José Juan Navarro | 173 | 210 | 383 |
8th | UKR | Artem Ivanov | 170 | 210 | 380 |
9 | MDA | Vadim Vacarciuc | 168 | 205 | 373 |
10 | MDA | Eugene Bratan | 170 | 200 | 370 |
Date: August 17, 2008, 3:30 p.m. (group B) / 7:00 p.m. (group A)
18 participants from 14 countries
In November 2016, Kazakh Ilya Ilyin , who originally came first, tested positive for stanozolol in doping night tests at the 2008 Olympic Games . The IOC disqualified him and withdrew his 2008 and 2012 gold medals.
In August 2016, the International Weightlifting Association announced that third-placed Russian Khadzhimurat Akkayev had been doped with dehydrochloromethyltestosterone in his competition . In the same month, the doping offense of the fifth-placed Azerbaijanist Nizami Paşayev came to light. He had doped with dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, oxandrolone and stanozolol.
Class up to 105 kg (heavyweight)
space | country | athlete |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | BLR | Andrej Aramnau | 200 ( WR ) | 236 ( WR ) | 436 ( WR ) |
2 | RUS | Dmitri Klokow | 193 | 230 | 423 |
3 | POLE | Marcin Dołęga | 195 | 225 | 420 |
4th | KAZ | Baqyt Akhmetov | 190 | 225 | 415 |
5 | GEO | Albert Kusilowi | 182 | 227 | 409 |
6th | KAZ | Sergei Istomin | 181 | 225 | 406 |
7th | POLE | Robert Dołęga | 184 | 221 | 405 |
8th | GRE | Nikolaos Kourtidis | 176 | 221 | 3907 |
9 | IRI | Mohsen Beiranvand | 180 | 210 | 390 |
10 | UKR | Oleksiy Torochtiy | 177 | 213 | 390 |
Date: August 18, 2008, 3:30 p.m. (group B) / 7:00 p.m. (group A)
20 participants from 16 countries
The originally sixth-placed Ukrainian Ihor Rasorjonow was subsequently disqualified for using dehydrochloromethyltestosterone . Follow-up tests in 2016 revealed that Russian Dmitri Lapikow was also doped. He had sneaked into third place with the help of the doping agent stanozolol .
Class over 105 kg (super heavyweight)
space | country | athlete |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | GER | Matthias Steiner | 203 | 258 | 461 |
2 | RUS | Yevgeny Chigishev | 210 | 250 | 460 |
3 | LAT | Viktor Ščerbatihs | 206 | 242 | 448 |
4th | UKR | Artem Udachyn | 207 | 235 | 442 |
5 | UKR | Ihor Shymetschko | 201 | 232 | 433 |
6th | IRI | Rashid Sharifi | 196 | 230 | 426 |
7th | POLE | Grzegorz Kleszcz | 185 | 234 | 419 |
8th | GER | Almir Velagic | 188 | 225 | 413 |
9 | OUT | Damon Kelly | 165 | 221 | 386 |
10 | NRU | Itte Detenamo | 175 | 210 | 385 |
Date: August 19, 2008, 3:30 p.m. (group B) / 7:00 p.m. (group A)
14 participants from 12 countries
Results women
Class up to 48 kg (fly weight)
space | country | sportswoman |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | TPE | Chen Wei-Ling | 84 | 112 | 196 |
2 | COR | In the Jyoung-hwa | 86 | 110 | 196 |
3 | THA | Pensiri Laosirikul | 85 | 110 | 195 |
4th | JPN | Hiromi Miyake | 80 | 105 | 185 |
5 | FRA | Melanie Noël | 80 | 97 | 177 |
6th | JPN | Misaki Ōshiro | 80 | 92 | 172 |
7th | POLE | Marzena Karpińska | 79 | 92 | 171 |
8th | CAN | Marilou Dozois-Prévost | 76 | 90 | 166 |
9 | NCA | Karla Moreno | 65 | 85 | 150 |
Date: August 9, 2008, 10:00 a.m.
14 participants from 11 countries
Because of doping, the Turkish Sibel Özkan had to return her silver medal in July 2016. The first-placed Chinese Chen Xiexia was also convicted of doping during follow-up tests in August 2016. Among other things, she had taken hormones in 2008. The disqualification and the withdrawal of the medal took place in January 2017. Another disqualification concerned the Turkish Nurcan Taylan , who was able to prove the use of Metandienone in a follow-up test in June 2012 .
Class up to 53 kg (feather weight)
space | country | sportswoman |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | THA | Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon | 95 | 126 (OR) | 221 ( OR ) |
2 | COR | Yoon Jin-hee | 94 | 119 | 213 |
3 | INA | Raema Lisa Rumbewas | 91 | 115 | 206 |
4th | DOM | Yuderqui Contreras | 93 | 111 | 204 |
5 | United States | Melanie Roach | 83 | 110 | 193 |
6th | GER | Julia Rohde | 82 | 103 | 185 |
7th | PNG | Dika Toua | 80 | 104 | 184 |
8th | VEN | Judith Chacón | 80 | 101 | 181 |
Date: August 10, 2008, 3:30 p.m.
9 participants from 9 countries
The Thai Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon set a new Olympic record , although she failed in the world record attempt. She had only entered the competition by pushing after all the competitors had already finished it. In the battle for second place, the lower body weight ultimately decided for Yoon Jin-hee.
In September 2016, the World Weightlifting Federation issued a ban on the Belarusian Anastassija Novikawa , who originally came third . As post-tests showed at the time, she had been doped with dehydrochloromethyltestosterone and stanozolol during her competition . The IOC canceled her result in October 2016 and dismissed the medal.
Class up to 58 kg (lightweight)
space | country | sportswoman |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | CHN | Chen Yanqing | 106 | 138 (OR) | 244 ( OR ) |
2 | PRK | O Jong-ae | 95 | 131 | 226 |
3 | THA | Wandee Kameaim | 98 | 128 | 226 |
4th | ECU | Alexandra Escobar | 99 | 124 | 223 |
5 | ALB | Romela Begaj | 98 | 118 | 216 |
6th | POLE | Aleksandra Klejnowska | 95 | 120 | 215 |
7th | ROME | Roxana Cocoș | 89 | 115 | 204 |
8th | PURE | Geral Vega | 90 | 112 | 202 |
9 | POLE | Marieta Gotfryd | 90 | 110 | 200 |
10 | PHI | Hidilyn Diaz | 85 | 107 | 192 |
Date: August 11, 2008, 3:30 p.m.
12 participants from 11 countries
In August 2016, the IOC disqualified the subsequently convicted Russian doping sinner Marina Schainowa and revoked her silver medal.
Class up to 63 kg (middle weight)
space | country | sportswoman |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | PRK | Pak Hyon-suk | 106 | 135 | 241 |
2 | TPE | Lu Ying-Chi | 104 | 127 | 231 |
3 | CAN | Christine Girard | 102 | 126 | 228 |
4th | VIE | Nguyen Thi Thiet | 100 | 125 | 225 |
5 | COR | Kim Soo-kyung | 98 | 127 | 225 |
6th | NOR | Ruth Kasirye | 103 | 121 | 224 |
7th | MEX | Luz Acosta | 97 | 120 | 217 |
8th | COL | Mercedes Pérez | 97 | 120 | 217 |
9 | MGL | Namchaidordschiin Bajarmaa | 90 | 123 | 213 |
10 | POLE | Dominika Misterska | 94 | 117 | 211 |
Date: August 12, 2008, 3:30 p.m.
20 participants from 18 countries
In September 2016, the World Weightlifting Federation issued a ban on the Kazakh Irina Nekrasova , who originally came second . Follow-up examinations showed that she had used the doping agent stanozolol in 2008 . The Kazakh girl Maija Manesa , who had not finished the competition, was also doped .
Class up to 69 kg (light heavy weight)
space | country | sportswoman |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | RUS | Oksana Slivenko | 115 | 140 | 255 |
2 | COL | Leidy Solis | 105 | 135 | 240 |
3 | EGY | Abeer Abdelrahman | 105 | 133 | 238 |
4th | COL | Tulia Angela Medina | 106 | 124 | 230 |
5 | BLR | Hanna Baziuschka | 105 | 120 | 225 |
6th | JPN | Rika Saitō | 87 | 122 | 209 |
VEN | Irish Jiménez | DNF | |||
PRK | Hong Yong-ok | DNF |
Date: August 13, 2005, 3:30 p.m.
10 participants from 9 countries
In August 2016, the World Weightlifting Federation announced that the Chinese Liu Chunhong had won her gold medal with the help of several doping substances such as sibutramine and hormones . The IOC disqualified her from her first place. Also in August 2016, the World Weightlifting Association reported that the Ukrainian Natalija Dawydowa had achieved her third place by taking dehydrochloromethyltestosterone .
Class up to 75 kg (heavyweight)
space | country | sportswoman |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | KAZ | Alla Waschenina | 119 | 147 | 266 |
2 | ESP | Lidia Valentín | 115 | 135 | 250 |
3 | MEX | Damaris Aguirre | 109 | 136 | 245 |
4th | COL | Ubaldina Valoyes | 110 | 134 | 244 |
5 | CAN | Jeane Lassen | 105 | 135 | 240 |
6th | UKR | Nadija Myronjuk | 105 | 132 | 237 |
7th | BLR | Yulia Navakovich | 110 | 127 | 237 |
8th | CHI | Elizabeth Poblete | 91 | 106 | 197 |
Date: August 15, 2005, 3:30 p.m.
12 participants from 11 countries
In August 2016, the Chinese Cao Lei , who had previously been placed first , was convicted in post-doping tests. She was disqualified in January 2017. Third- placed Russian Nadeschda Evstjuchina and fourth-placed Belarusian Iryna Kulescha were also doped. All lost their medals.
Class over 75 kg (super heavyweight)
space | country | sportswoman |
Tear (kg) |
Push (kg) |
Total (kg) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | COR | Jang Mi-ran | 140 ( WR ) | 186 ( WR ) | 326 ( WR ) |
2 | SAM | Ele Opeloge | 119 | 150 | 269 |
3 | NGR | Mariam Usman | 115 | 150 | 265 |
4th | United States | Cheryl Haworth | 115 | 144 | 259 |
5 | UKR | Julija Dowhal | 118 | 140 | 258 |
6th | OUT | Deborah Lovely | 113 | 135 | 248 |
7th | GRE | Victoria Mavridou | 105 | 126 | 231 |
8th | BY | Cristina Cornejo | 97 | 128 | 225 |
ESA | Eva Dimas | DNF |
Date: August 16, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
11 participants from 10 countries
In August 2016, the world association issued a ban against the second-placed Ukrainian Olha Korobka . She took dehydrochloromethyl testosterone in 2008 . The IOC subsequently disqualified her and rejected the illegally acquired silver medal. The third-placed Kazakh girl Marija Grabowezkaja , who had consumed dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, oxandrolone and stanozolol , was also doped . She was also banned in August 2016.
Quota places
At the 2006 and 2007 World Championships, the individual associations were able to win quota places for competitions in Beijing. The associations can then distribute the quota places won to the individual weight classes, with a maximum of two athletes per weight class. Associations that have not yet achieved a quota position can do so in continental eliminations and, if they are successful, achieve a total of two or one place.
Men
- Associations with 6 quota places
- Associations with 5 quota places
- Associations with 4 quota places
- Associations with 3 quota places
Women
- Associations with 4 quota places
- People's Republic of China
- Russia
- Thailand
- South Korea
- Ukraine
- Colombia
- Belarus
- Poland
- Kazakhstan
- United States
- Associations with 3 quota places
- Associations with 2 quota places
Web links
- Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official results of the Olympic Games 2008 (PDF, 27.3 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b IOC sanctions nine athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008. International Olympic Committee , August 26, 2016, accessed on September 28, 2018 .
- ^ IOC sanctions six athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008. International Olympic Committee , August 31, 2016, accessed September 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Three Olympic champions from 2008 convicted of doping. Sportschau , August 24, 2016, accessed on August 25, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Anti-doping news: Public Disclosures. International Weightlifting Federation , August 24, 2016, accessed September 28, 2016 .
- ^ Anti-doping news: Public Disclosures. International Weightlifting Federation , August 16, 2016, accessed September 19, 2016 .
- ^ IOC sanctions seven athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. International Olympic Committee , November 25, 2016, accessed November 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Doping: Weightlifter loses silver. Sport1 , July 22, 2016, accessed August 16, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Doping at the 2008 Olympics: China loses three gold medals. Spiegel Online , January 13, 2017, accessed January 13, 2017 .
- ↑ London 2012 Olympics: world champion and Games gold medalist weightlifter Nurcan Taylan banned for doping. The Daily Telegraph , June 14, 2012, accessed September 28, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Beijing follow-up tests: IOC takes action. International Olympic Committee , October 26, 2016, accessed October 29, 2016 .
- ^ IOC sanctions eight athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. International Olympic Committee , January 12, 2017, accessed September 28, 2018 .
- ↑ She is the greatest profiteer of the doping swamp. Die Welt , August 29, 2016, accessed on August 29, 2016 .