The women's 75 kilograms weightlifting event was the sixth women's event at the weightlifting competition, with competitors limited to a maximum of 75 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took place on August 15 at 15:30. This event was the ninth Weightlifting event to conclude.

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.

Schedule All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00) DateTimeEvent 15 August 2008 15:30 Group A

Records

Results

RankAthleteGroupBody weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total123Result123Result A 73.88 115 115 119 119 141 145 147 147 266 A 74.42 110 110 115 115 130 135 138 135 250 A 74.82 103 106 109 109 130 135 136 136 245 4 A 73.30 105 110 110 110 130 134 138 134 244 5 A 74.42 105 105 110 105 130 135 140 135 240 6 A 74.11 102 105 105 105 125 127 132 132 237 7 A 74.19 105 110 110 110 115 122 127 127 237 8 A 74.43 86 91 93 91 106 111 111 106 197 DQ A 73.16 120 125 128 128 147 154 159 154 282 DQ A 73.33 112 117 117 117 138 143 147 147 264 DQ A 74.78 112 116 118 118 128 133 137 137 255 DQ A 74.74 100 105 110 105 125 130 130 130 235

Cao Lei of China originally won the gold medal, but was disqualified after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for GHRP-2 and GHRP-2 M2. Nadezhda Evstyukhina of Russia originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and EPO. Iryna Kulesha of Belarus originally finished fourth, but was disqualified in 2016 after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for oral turinabol. Hripsime Khurshudyan of Armenia originally finished eleventh, but she was disqualified after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for stanozolol.

New records Snatch128 kgClean & Jerk154 kgTotal275 kg282 kg

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