# Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 75 kg

The women's 75 kilograms weightlifting event was the sixth women's event at the weightlifting competition, with competitors limited to a maximum of 75 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took place on August 15 at 15:30. This event was the ninth 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 |
| 15 August 2008 | 15:30 | Group A |

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | Natalya Zabolotnaya (RUS) | 131 kg | Chiang Mai, Thailand | 25 September 2007 |
| World Record | Clean & Jerk | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | 159 kg | Doha, Qatar | 13 November 2005 |
| World Record | Total | Svetlana Podobedova (RUS) | 286 kg | Hangzhou, China | 2 June 2006 |
| Olympic Record | Snatch | Natalya Zabolotnaya (RUS) | 125 kg | Athens, Greece | 20 August 2004 |
| Olympic Record | Clean & Jerk | Pawina Thongsuk (THA) | 150 kg | Athens, Greece | 20 August 2004 |
| Olympic Record | Total | Natalya Zabolotnaya (RUS) | 272 kg | Athens, Greece | 20 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 |
| | Alla Vazhenina (KAZ) | A | 73.88 | 115 | 115 | 119 | 119 | 141 | 145 | 147 | 147 | 266 |
| | Lydia Valentín (ESP) | A | 74.42 | 110 | 110 | 115 | 115 | 130 | 135 | 138 | 135 | 250 |
| | Damaris Aguirre (MEX) | A | 74.82 | 103 | 106 | 109 | 109 | 130 | 135 | 136 | 136 | 245 |
| 4 | Ubaldina Valoyes (COL) | A | 73.30 | 105 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 130 | 134 | 138 | 134 | 244 |
| 5 | Jeane Lassen (CAN) | A | 74.42 | 105 | 105 | 110 | 105 | 130 | 135 | 140 | 135 | 240 |
| 6 | Nadiya Myronyuk (UKR) | A | 74.11 | 102 | 105 | 105 | 105 | 125 | 127 | 132 | 132 | 237 |
| 7 | Yuliya Novakovich (BLR) | A | 74.19 | 105 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 115 | 122 | 127 | 127 | 237 |
| 8 | Elizabeth Poblete (CHI) | A | 74.43 | 86 | 91 | 93 | 91 | 106 | 111 | 111 | 106 | 197 |
| DQ | Cao Lei (CHN) | A | 73.16 | 120 | 125 | 128 | 128 | 147 | 154 | 159 | 154 | 282 |
| DQ | Nadezhda Evstyukhina (RUS) | A | 73.33 | 112 | 117 | 117 | 117 | 138 | 143 | 147 | 147 | 264 |
| DQ | Iryna Kulesha (BLR) | A | 74.78 | 112 | 116 | 118 | 118 | 128 | 133 | 137 | 137 | 255 |
| DQ | Hripsime Khurshudyan (ARM) | A | 74.74 | 100 | 105 | 110 | 105 | 125 | 130 | 130 | 130 | 235 |
* Cao Lei of China originally won the gold medal, but was disqualified after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for GHRP-2 and GHRP-2 M2.
* Nadezhda Evstyukhina of Russia originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and EPO.
* Iryna Kulesha of Belarus originally finished fourth, but was disqualified in 2016 after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for oral turinabol.
* Hripsime Khurshudyan of Armenia originally finished eleventh, but she was disqualified after a re-analysis of her samples from Beijing 2008 tested positive for stanozolol.

## New records

| Snatch | 128 kg | Cao Lei (CHN) | OR |
| Clean & Jerk | 154 kg | Cao Lei (CHN) | OR |
| Total | 275 kg | Cao Lei (CHN) | OR |
| Total | 282 kg | Cao Lei (CHN) | OR |