Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 53 kg

Women's 53 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beihang University Gymnasium
Date	10 August
Competitors	9 from 9 nations
Medalists
Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon  Thailand Yoon Jin-hee  South Korea Raema Lisa Rumbewas  Indonesia

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

The women's 53 kg weightlifting event was the second-lightest women's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 53 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took place on August 10 at 15:30. This event was the second 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)

Records

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

World Record	Snatch	Ri Song-hui (PRK)	102 kg	Busan, South Korea	1 October 2002
	Clean & Jerk	Li Ping (CHN)	129 kg	Tai'an, China	22 April 2007
	Total	Qiu Hongxia (CHN)	226 kg	Santo Domingo, Dominican	2 October 2006
Olympic Record	Snatch	Yang Xia (CHN)	100 kg	Sydney, Australia	18 September 2000
	Clean & Jerk	Yang Xia (CHN)	125 kg	Sydney, Australia	18 September 2000
	Total	Yang Xia (CHN)	225 kg	Sydney, Australia	18 September 2000

Results

Rank	Athlete	Group	Body weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
				1	2	3	Result	1	2	3	Result
	Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon (THA)	A	52.47	92	95	97	95	120	126	130	126	221
	Yoon Jin-hee (KOR)	A	52.72	94	97	97	94	116	118	119	119	213
	Raema Lisa Rumbewas (INA)	A	52.95	91	95	95	91	110	115	121	115	206
4	Yuderqui Contreras (DOM)	A	52.74	89	93	96	93	111	118	120	111	204
5	Melanie Roach (USA)	A	52.54	79	81	83	83	105	108	110	110	193
6	Julia Rohde (GER)	A	52.79	77	80	82	82	99	103	105	103	185
7	Dika Toua (PNG)	A	52.53	77	77	80	80	104	108	108	104	184
8	Judith Chacón (VEN)	A	52.96	75	75	80	80	101	106	106	101	181
DQ	Nastassia Novikava (BLR)	A	52.87	92	95	97	—	116	116	118	—	—

• Nastassia Novikava of Belarus originally finished third, but was disqualified after she tested positive for oral turinabol and stanozolol.^[1][2]

New records

Clean & Jerk

126 kg

Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon (THA)

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References

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