1999 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 75 kg
| 1999 World Weightlifting Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
| 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 Heavyweight Weightlifting Event (75 kg) is the sixth women's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limited to competitors with a maximum of 75 kilograms of body mass. The competition at the 1999 World Weightlifting Championships took place in Athens, Greece on November 26, 1999.
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.
Medalists[edit]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snatch |  Xu Jiao (CHN) |
112.5 kg |  Kim Soon-hee (KOR) |
107.5 kg |  Ruth Ogbeifo (NGR) |
107.5 kg |
| Clean & Jerk | Kim Soon-hee (KOR) |
135.0 kg | Xu Jiao (CHN) |
135.0 kg | Ruth Ogbeifo (NGR) |
132.5 kg |
| Total | Xu Jiao (CHN) |
247.5 kg | Kim Soon-hee (KOR) |
242.5 kg | Ruth Ogbeifo (NGR) |
240.0 kg |
Records[edit]
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | Tang Weifang (CHN) |
116.0 kg | Wuhan, China | 3 September 1999 |
| Clean & Jerk | Tang Weifang (CHN) |
141.0 kg | Wuhan, China | 3 September 1999 | |
| Total | Tang Weifang (CHN) |
255.0 kg | Wuhan, China | 3 September 1999 |
Results[edit]
| Rank | Athlete | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | ||||
 |
Xu Jiao (CHN) |
74.32 | 107.5 | 110.0 | 112.5 | |
130.0 | 135.0 |  |
247.5 | |
|
Kim Soon-hee (KOR) |
73.31 | 100.0 | 105.0 | 107.5 | |
130.0 | 135.0 | |
242.5 | |
 |
Ruth Ogbeifo (NGR) |
74.61 | 102.5 | 107.5 | |
130.0 | 132.5 | |
240.0 | ||
| 4 |  Kuo Yi-hang (TPE) |
74.63 | 102.5 | 7 | 132.5 | 4 | 235.0 | ||||
| 5 |  Tatyana Khromova (KAZ) |
74.98 | 100.0 | 105.0 | 4 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 5 | 235.0 | |
| 6 |  Karoliina Lundahl (FIN) |
74.87 | 102.5 | 8 | 125.0 | 9 | 227.5 | ||||
| 7 |  Cara Heads (USA) |
72.99 | 97.5 | 102.5 | 5 | 117.5 | 122.5 | 9 | 225.0 | ||
| 8 |  Aye Mon Khin (MYA) |
75.00 | 102.5 | 9 | 122.5 | 12 | 225.0 | ||||
| 9 |  Wanda Rijo (DOM) |
74.02 | 92.5 | 97.5 | 11 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 7 | 222.5 | ||
| 10 |  Mónica Carrió (ESP) |
74.03 | 100.0 | 102.5 | 6 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 14 | 222.5 | ||
| 11 |  Gyöngyi Likerecz (HUN) |
74.77 | 95.0 | 100.0 | 10 | 120.0 | 122.5 | 11 | 222.5 | ||
| 12 |  Svetlana Khabirova (RUS) |
71.32 | 95.0 | 15 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 6 | 220.0 | ||
| 13 |  Line Mary (FRA) |
74.25 | 95.0 | 97.5 | 12 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 15 | 217.5 | ||
| 14 |  Theresa Brick (CAN) |
74.93 | 92.5 | 97.5 | 14 | 112.5 | 117.5 | 120.0 | 16 | 217.5 | |
| 15 |  Stephanie Mantek (GER) |
71.68 | 92.5 | 95.0 | 16 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 13 | 215.0 | ||
| 16 | Jeane Lassen (CAN) |
74.08 | 87.5 | 92.5 | 18 | 117.5 | 122.5 | 10 | 215.0 | ||
| 17 | Ilona Dankó (HUN) |
74.65 | 97.5 | 13 | 112.5 | 117.5 | 17 | 215.0 | |||
| 18 |  Theano Zagkliveri (GRE) |
74.06 | 85.0 | 90.0 | 20 | 105.0 | 110.0 | 19 | 200.0 | ||
| 19 |  Romi Devi (IND) |
74.63 | 85.0 | 90.0 | 21 | 105.0 | 110.0 | 20 | 200.0 | ||
| 20 |  Caroline Pileggi (AUS) |
74.94 | 85.0 | 23 | 110.0 | 22 | 195.0 | ||||
| 21 |  Iwona Mikołajczewska (POL) |
73.75 | 85.0 | 90.0 | 19 | 100.0 | 28 | 190.0 | |||
| 22 | Anja Moldenhauer (GER) |
72.95 | 80.0 | 85.0 | 22 | 102.5 | 25 | 187.5 | |||
| 23 | Amanda Phillips (AUS) |
69.81 | 77.5 | 80.0 | 24 | 100.0 | 105.0 | 23 | 185.0 | ||
| 24 |  Beate Amdahl (NOR) |
73.55 | 77.5 | 80.0 | 25 | 105.0 | 24 | 185.0 | |||
| 25 |  Cinthya Domínguez (MEX) |
73.69 | 80.0 | 26 | 100.0 | 27 | 180.0 | ||||
| 26 |  Zuzana Kováčová (SVK) |
72.35 | 77.5 | 27 | 100.0 | 26 | 177.5 | ||||
| 27 |  Kineret Vainstein (ISR) |
70.25 | 60.0 | 65.0 | 28 | 67.5 | 72.5 | 29 | 137.5 | ||
| — |  Oksana Sukhoruk (UKR) |
73.81 | 95.0 | 17 | — | — | |||||
| — | Mylona Kleanthi (GRE) |
71.38 | — | 105.0 | 100.0 | 115.0 | 18 | — | |||
| — |  Mihaela Geambașu (ROM) |
74.89 | — | 110.0 | 21 | — | |||||
| DQ |  Michele David (MRI) |
74.81 | 75.0 | 77.5 | — | 95.0 | 97.5 | 100.0 | — | — | |