# Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 69 kg

The women's 69 kilograms weightlifting event was the fifth women's event at the weightlifting competition, with competitors limited to a maximum of 69 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took place on August 13, but was divided in two parts due to the number of competitors. Group B weightlifters competed at 12:30, and Group A, at 15:30. This event was the eighth 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)
| Date | Time | Event |
| 13 August 2008 | 15:30 | Group A |

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | Oxana Slivenko (RUS) | 123 kg | Santo Domingo, Dominican | 4 October 2006 |
| World Record | Clean & Jerk | Zarema Kasaeva (RUS) | 157 kg | Doha, Qatar | 13 November 2005 |
| World Record | Total | Oxana Slivenko (RUS) | 276 kg | Chiang Mai, Thailand | 24 September 2007 |
| Olympic Record | Snatch | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | 122 kg | Athens, Greece | 19 August 2004 |
| Olympic Record | Clean & Jerk | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | 153 kg | Athens, Greece | 19 August 2004 |
| Olympic Record | Total | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | 275 kg | Athens, Greece | 19 August 2004 |

## Results

| Rank | Athlete | Group | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total |
| Rank | Athlete | Group | Body weight | 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | Total |
| | Oxana Slivenko (RUS) | A | 68.47 | 110 | 115 | 115 | 115 | 136 | 140 | — | 140 | 255 |
| | Leydi Solís (COL) | A | 67.54 | 99 | 103 | 105 | 105 | 125 | 132 | 135 | 135 | 240 |
| | Abeer Abdelrahman (EGY) | A | 69.00 | 100 | 105 | 105 | 105 | 133 | 133 | 136 | 133 | 238 |
| 4 | Tulia Medina (COL) | A | 68.63 | 100 | 104 | 106 | 106 | 120 | 124 | 124 | 124 | 230 |
| 5 | Hanna Batsiushka (BLR) | A | 68.65 | 105 | 110 | 110 | 105 | 120 | 126 | 126 | 120 | 225 |
| 6 | Rika Saito (JPN) | A | 68.65 | 87 | 87 | 90 | 87 | 115 | 120 | 122 | 122 | 209 |
| — | Iriner Jiménez (VEN) | A | 65.33 | 87 | 90 | 93 | 90 | 120 | 120 | 120 | — | — |
| — | Hong Yong-ok (PRK) | A | 68.07 | 103 | 103 | 103 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| DQ | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | A | 68.87 | 120 | 125 | 128 | 128 | 145 | 149 | 158 | 158 | 286 |
| DQ | Nataliya Davydova (UKR) | A | 68.63 | 110 | 113 | 115 | 115 | 130 | 133 | 135 | 135 | 250 |
* Liu Chunhong of China originally won the gold medal, but she was disqualified after a positive anti-doping retest of her 2008 sample.
* Nataliya Davydova of Ukraine originally finished third, but she was disqualified in November 2016 after she tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.

## New records

| Snatch | 125 kg | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | WR |
| Snatch | 128 kg | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | WR |
| Clean & Jerk | 158 kg | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | WR |
| Total | 277 kg | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | WR |
| Total | 286 kg | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | WR |