The women's featherweight event (53 kilograms) is the second women's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limited to competitors with a maximum of 53 kilograms of body mass. The competition at the 1999 World Weightlifting Championships took place in Athens, Greece on November 21, 1999.
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.
Medalists
edit| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snatch |  Li Feng-ying (TPE) |
95.0 kg |  Winarni Binti Slamet (INA) |
90.0 kg |  Swe Swe Win (MYA) |
85.0 kg |
| Clean & Jerk | Li Feng-ying (TPE) |
120.0 kg | Winarni Binti Slamet (INA) |
112.5 kg |  Wang Xiufen (CHN) |
112.5 kg |
| Total | Li Feng-ying (TPE) |
215.0 kg | Winarni Binti Slamet (INA) |
202.5 kg | Wang Xiufen (CHN) |
197.5 kg |
Records
editPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | Meng Xianjuan (CHN) |
97.5 kg | Chiba, Japan | 1 May 1999 |
| Clean & Jerk | Li Feng-ying (TPE) |
121.0 kg | Wuhan, China | 30 August 1999 | |
| Total | Meng Xianjuan (CHN) |
217.5 kg | Chiba, Japan | 1 May 1999 |
Results
edit| Rank | Athlete | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | ||||
 |
Li Feng-ying (TPE) |
52.66 | 90.0 | 92.5 | 95.0 | |
115.0 | 121.5 | |
215.0 | |
 |
Winarni Binti Slamet (INA) |
52.14 | 85.0 | 87.5 | 90.0 | |
105.0 | 110.0 | 112.5 | |
202.5 |
 |
Wang Xiufen (CHN) |
52.93 | 85.0 | 8 | 110.0 | 112.5 | |
197.5 | |||
| 4 | Supeni Wasiman (INA) |
52.89 | 85.0 | 7 | 110.0 | 5 | 195.0 | ||||
| 5 |  Mari Nakaga (JPN) |
52.85 | 80.0 | 82.5 | 10 | 105.0 | 110.0 | 4 | 192.5 | ||
| 6 | Swe Swe Win (MYA) |
51.55 | 80.0 | 85.0 | |
105.0 | 6 | 190.0 | |||
| 7 |  Franca Gbodo (NGR) |
52.55 | 80.0 | 85.0 | 5 | 105.0 | 7 | 190.0 | |||
| 8 |  Robin Goad (USA) |
52.58 | 80.0 | 85.0 | 6 | 97.5 | 102.5 | 10 | 187.5 | ||
| 9 |  Izabela Dragneva (BUL) |
52.28 | 82.5 | 9 | 102.5 | 9 | 185.0 | ||||
| 10 |  Taengmo Muangpho (THA) |
52.47 | 80.0 | 85.0 | 4 | 95.0 | 100.0 | 12 | 185.0 | ||
| 11 |  Nandini Devi (IND) |
52.90 | 75.0 | 80.0 | 13 | 97.5 | 102.5 | 11 | 182.5 | ||
| 12 |  Estefanía Juan (ESP) |
52.92 | 75.0 | 16 | 100.0 | 102.5 | 105.0 | 8 | 180.0 | ||
| 13 |  Karla Fernández (VEN) |
52.80 | 80.0 | 11 | 97.5 | 14 | 177.5 | ||||
| 14 | Noriko Hasegawa (JPN) |
52.36 | 72.5 | 75.0 | 77.5 | 14 | 92.5 | 97.5 | 13 | 175.0 | |
| 15 | Siyka Stoeva (BUL) |
52.80 | 72.5 | 77.5 | 80.0 | 12 | 92.5 | 17 | 172.5 | ||
| 16 |  Michal Shahar (ISR) |
52.85 | 77.5 | 15 | 92.5 | 18 | 170.0 | ||||
| 17 |  Adriana Gallego (COL) |
52.36 | 70.0 | 19 | 90.0 | 95.0 | 15 | 165.0 | |||
| 18 | Abigail Guerrero (ESP) |
52.94 | 70.0 | 75.0 | 17 | 85.0 | 90.0 | 20 | 165.0 | ||
| 19 |  Silvia Puxeddu (ITA) |
52.47 | 67.5 | 72.5 | 18 | 90.0 | 19 | 162.5 | |||
| 20 | Bibiana Muñoz (COL) |
52.42 | 65.0 | 22 | 92.5 | 95.0 | 16 | 160.0 | |||
| 21 |  Evdokia Chatziavramidou (GRE) |
52.49 | 67.5 | 70.0 | 20 | 85.0 | 21 | 155.0 | |||
| 22 |  Lisbeth Østergaard (DEN) |
52.80 | 62.5 | 65.0 | 23 | 80.0 | 82.5 | 85.0 | 22 | 150.0 | |
| 23 |  Maria Elisabete Jorge (BRA) |
52.12 | 60.0 | 65.0 | 21 | 77.5 | 82.5 | 23 | 147.5 | ||
| 24 |  Maria Monteiro (POR) |
52.13 | 60.0 | 25 | 75.0 | 80.0 | 24 | 140.0 | |||
| 25 | Maria Lagoa (POR) |
52.63 | 62.5 | 24 | 75.0 | 77.5 | 25 | 140.0 | |||
| 26 |  Andrea Piková (SVK) |
52.88 | 52.5 | 26 | 67.5 | 72.5 | 26 | 125.0 | |||
| — |  Maria Bohm (SWE) |
52.88 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
New records
edit| Clean & Jerk | 121.5 kg | Li Feng-ying (TPE)
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