Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 63 kg

Women's 63 kg at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Riocentro
Date	9 August 2016
Competitors	14 from 14 nations
Winning total	262 kg WR
Medalists
Deng Wei  China Choe Hyo-sim  North Korea Karina Goricheva  Kazakhstan

Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Qualification List of weightlifters
	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 63 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place on 9 August at the Pavilion 2 of Riocentro.^[1]

Schedule

All times are Time in Brazil (UTC-03:00)

Records

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

World record	Snatch	Svetlana Tsarukayeva (RUS)	117 kg	Paris, France	8 November 2011
	Clean & Jerk	Deng Wei (CHN)	146 kg	Houston, United States	25 November 2015
	Total	Lin Tzu-chi (TPE)	261 kg	Incheon, South Korea	23 September 2014
Olympic record	Snatch	Hanna Batsiushka (BLR)	115 kg	Athens, Greece	18 August 2004
	Clean & Jerk	Nataliya Skakun (UKR)	135 kg	Athens, Greece	18 August 2004
	Total	Maiya Maneza (KAZ)	245 kg	London, United Kingdom	31 July 2012

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Group	Body weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
					1	2	3	Result	1	2	3	Result
	Deng Wei	China	A	62.34	108	112	115	115	138	147	–	147 WR	262 WR
	Choe Hyo-sim	North Korea	A	62.17	105	109	111	105	135	138	143	143	248
	Karina Goricheva	Kazakhstan	A	62.66	107	107	111	111	132	137	137	132	243
4	Mercedes Pérez	Colombia	A	62.74	100	104	104	104	125	130	137	130	234
5	Eva Gurrola	Mexico	A	62.60	97	100	100	100	120	125	125	120	220
6	Giorgia Bordignon	Italy	A	62.75	94	98	98	98	115	119	123	119	217
7	Esraa El-Sayed	Egypt	B	61.98	93	97	100	100	112	116	118	116	216
8	Marina Rodríguez	Cuba	B	62.20	87	91	94	94	117	121	123	121	215
9	Namika Matsumoto	Japan	B	62.86	90	94	95	90	107	111	115	115	205
10	Anni Vuohijoki	Finland	B	62.26	85	88	89	85	104	107	113	107	192
11	Joana Palacios	Argentina	B	62.95	80	83	86	83	101	102	107	107	190
12	Elisa Ravololoniaina	Madagascar	B	61.91	75	80	85	85	95	100	100	100	185
13	Mehtap Kurnaz	Turkey	B	62.16	78	81	83	81	100	103	105	100	181
–	Siripuch Gulnoi	Thailand	A	62.56	105	108	110	108	132	132	132	–	–

New records

Clean & Jerk	138 kg	Deng Wei (CHN)	OR
Total	253 kg	Deng Wei (CHN)	OR
Clean & Jerk	143 kg	Choe Hyo-sim (PRK)	OR
Clean & Jerk	147 kg	Deng Wei (CHN)	OR, WR
Total	262 kg	Deng Wei (CHN)	OR, WR

References