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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| Date | 15 August | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 12 from 11 nations | ||||||||||||
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Alla Vazhenina |
 Kazakhstan
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Lidia Valentín |
 Spain
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The women's 75 kg 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.
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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