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Weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 49 kg

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Women's 49 kg
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
VenueParis Expo Porte de Versailles
Date7 August 2024
Competitors12 from 12 nations
Winning total206 kg
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hou Zhihui  China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mihaela Cambei  Romania
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Surodchana Khambao  Thailand
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The Women's 49 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris took place on 7 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.[1]

Background

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Lifters from the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 - Medallists Hou Zhihui of China and Saikhom Mirabai Chanu of India - along with other participants, Chinese Taipei's Fang Wan-ling, United States' Jourdan Delacruz, Dominican Republic's Beatriz Pirón and Belgium's Nina Sterckx - returns for this event, along with debutants. Among them are Romania's Mihaela Cambei and Venezuela's Katherin Echandia, who are the medallists of the event at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, Rira Suzuki, aged 26, was chosen to replace retired Hiromi Miyake for Japan.

Records

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

World Record Snatch  Hou Zhihui (CHN) 97 kg Phuket, Thailand 1 April 2024
Clean & Jerk  Ri Song-gum (PRK) 125 kg Tashkent, Uzbekistan 4 February 2024
Total  Ri Song-gum (PRK) 221 kg Phuket, Thailand 1 April 2024
Olympic Record Snatch  Hou Zhihui (CHN) 94 kg Tokyo, Japan 24 July 2021
Clean & Jerk  Hou Zhihui (CHN) 116 kg Tokyo, Japan 24 July 2021
Total  Hou Zhihui (CHN) 210 kg Tokyo, Japan 24 July 2021

The Olympic record for Clean & Jerk was re-established during the competition:

Category Athlete New record Type
Clean & Jerk  Hou Zhihui (CHN) 117 kg OR

Results

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Rank Athlete Nation Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
1 2 3 Result 1 2 3 Result
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hou Zhihui  China 89 89 93 89 110 117 117 117 OR 206
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mihaela Cambei  Romania 89 91 93 93 106 110 112 112 205
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Surodchana Khambao  Thailand 86 88 88 88 110 112 114 112 200
4 Saikhom Mirabai Chanu  India 85 88 88 88 111 111 114 111 199
5 Jourdan Delacruz  United States 84 87 88 84 105 110 111 111 195
6 Fang Wan-ling  Chinese Taipei 80 83 86 86 102 106 107 107 193
7 Beatriz Pirón  Dominican Republic 85 88 88 85 102 107 110 107 192
8 Rira Suzuki  Japan 83 85 85 83 108 112 117 108 191
9 Katherin Echandia  Venezuela 83 86 86 83 105 107 109 105 188
10 Rosina Randafiarison  Madagascar 75 80 83 80 95 100 100 100 180
11 Nicola Lagatao  Guam 56 59 62 59 74 77 79 77 136
Nina Sterckx  Belgium 86 86 86 DNF

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References

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  1. ^ "Weightlifting Competition Schedule". Paris 2024. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Women's 49kg - Results" (PDF). Olympics. 7 August 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2024.