Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's +75 kg
| Women's +75 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
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| Venue | Beihang University Gymnasium | ||||||||||||
| Date | 16 August | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 11 from 10 nations | ||||||||||||
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Jang Mi-ran |
 South Korea
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Ele Opeloge |
 Samoa
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Mariam Usman |
 Nigeria
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The women's +75 kg weightlifting event was the heaviest women's event at the weightlifting competition, allowing competitors with over 75 kilograms of body mass. The competition took place on August 16, starting at 19:00.
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.
The winner of the event, Jang Mi-ran, broke a total of three world records, the snatch (140 kg, +1 kg), the clean and jerk (186 kg, +4 kg) and the total (326 kg, +7 kg).
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
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