Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 48 kg

Women's 48 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beihang University Gymnasium
Date	9 August
Competitors	14 from 11 nations
Medalists
Chen Wei-ling  Chinese Taipei Im Jyoung-hwa  South Korea Pensiri Laosirikul  Thailand
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Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics
	Men	Women
	56 kg	48 kg
	62 kg	53 kg
	69 kg	58 kg
	77 kg	63 kg
	85 kg	69 kg
	94 kg	75 kg
	105 kg	+75 kg
	+105 kg
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The women's 48 kilograms weightlifting event is the lightest women's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 48 kilograms of body mass. The competition took place on August 9 at 10:00 and was the first Weightlifting event to conclude. It was the second set of medals to be awarded at the Games, a few moments after the women's 10m Air Rifle.

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.

Chen Xiexia and Sibel Özkan initially won the gold and the silver medals, but in 2016 their results were annulled due to a doping violation from a reanalysis of samples from 2008.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Records

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

World Record	Snatch	Yang Lian (CHN)	98 kg	Santo Domingo, Dominican	1 October 2006
	Clean & Jerk	Chen Xiexia (CHN)	120 kg	Tai'an, China	21 April 2007
	Total	Yang Lian (CHN)	217 kg	Santo Domingo, Dominican	1 October 2006
Olympic Record	Snatch	Nurcan Taylan (TUR)	97 kg	Athens, Greece	14 August 2004
	Clean & Jerk	Aree Wiratthaworn (THA)	115 kg	Athens, Greece	14 August 2004
	Total	Nurcan Taylan (TUR)	210 kg	Athens, Greece	14 August 2004

Results

Rank	Athlete	Group	Body weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
				1	2	3	Result	1	2	3	Result
	Chen Wei-ling (TPE)	A	47.11	84	87	87	84	108	112	115	112	196
	Im Jyoung-hwa (KOR)	A	47.62	83	86	88	86	106	110	113	110	196
	Pensiri Laosirikul (THA)	A	47.67	85	85	85	85	110	114	114	110	195
4	Hiromi Miyake (JPN)	A	47.35	80	82	82	80	105	110	110	105	185
5	Mélanie Noël (FRA)	A	47.91	75	78	80	80	97	100	100	97	177
6	Misaki Oshiro (JPN)	A	47.62	77	80	80	80	92	96	96	92	172
7	Marzena Karpińska (POL)	A	47.62	79	82	82	79	92	92	97	92	171
8	Marilou Dozois-Prévost (CAN)	A	47.75	73	76	78	76	90	90	96	90	166
9	Karla Moreno (NCA)	A	47.07	65	65	71	65	83	83	85	85	150
—	Pramsiri Bunphithak (THA)	A	47.95	84	84	84	—	—	—	—	—	—
—	Genny Pagliaro (ITA)	A	47.85	82	82	82	—	—	—	—	—	—
DQ	Chen Xiexia (CHN)	A	47.46	90	93	95	95	113	115	117	117	212
DQ	Sibel Özkan (TUR)	A	47.80	86	88	88	88	108	108	111	111	199
DQ	Nurcan Taylan (TUR)	A	47.84	84	84	84	—	—	—	—	—	—

• Chen Xiexia of China originally won the gold medal, but she was disqualified following a positive anti-doping test of her 2008 sample.^[1]
• Sibel Özkan of Turkey originally won the silver medal, but she was disqualified following a positive anti-doping test of her 2008 sample.^[2] On 1 December 2016, the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed Özkan's final appeal.^[3]

New records

Clean & Jerk	117 kg	Chen Xiexia (CHN)	OR
Total	212 kg	Chen Xiexia (CHN)	OR

References

• Page 2627

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