Weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 49 kg

The Women's 49 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris took place on 7 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.[1]

Women's 49 kg
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
VenueParis Expo Porte de Versailles
Date7 August 2024
Competitors12 from 12 nations
Winning total206 kg
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hou Zhihui  China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mihaela Cambei  Romania
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Surodchana Khambao  Thailand
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Background

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Lifters from the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 - Medallists Hou Zhihui of China and Saikhom Mirabai Chanu of India - along with other participants, Chinese Taipei's Fang Wan-ling, United States' Jourdan Delacruz, Dominican Republic's Beatriz Pirón and Belgium's Nina Sterckx - returns for this event, along with debutants. Among them are Romania's Mihaela Cambei and Venezuela's Katherin Echandia, who are the medallists of the event at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, Rira Suzuki, aged 26, was chosen to replace retired Hiromi Miyake for Japan.

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World Record Snatch   Hou Zhihui (CHN) 97 kg Phuket, Thailand 1 April 2024
Clean & Jerk   Ri Song-gum (PRK) 125 kg Tashkent, Uzbekistan 4 February 2024
Total   Ri Song-gum (PRK) 221 kg Phuket, Thailand 1 April 2024
Olympic Record Snatch   Hou Zhihui (CHN) 94 kg Tokyo, Japan 24 July 2021
Clean & Jerk   Hou Zhihui (CHN) 116 kg Tokyo, Japan 24 July 2021
Total   Hou Zhihui (CHN) 210 kg Tokyo, Japan 24 July 2021

The Olympic record for Clean & Jerk was re-established during the competition:

Category Athlete New record Type
Clean & Jerk   Hou Zhihui (CHN) 117 kg OR

Results

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Rank Athlete Nation Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
1 2 3 Result 1 2 3 Result
  Hou Zhihui   China 89 89 93 89 110 117 117 117 OR 206
  Mihaela Cambei   Romania 89 91 93 93 106 110 112 112 205
  Surodchana Khambao   Thailand 86 88 88 88 110 112 114 112 200
4 Saikhom Mirabai Chanu   India 85 88 88 88 111 111 114 111 199
5 Jourdan Delacruz   United States 84 87 88 84 105 110 111 111 195
6 Fang Wan-ling   Chinese Taipei 80 83 86 86 102 106 107 107 193
7 Beatriz Pirón   Dominican Republic 85 88 88 85 102 107 110 107 192
8 Rira Suzuki   Japan 83 85 85 83 108 112 117 108 191
9 Katherin Echandia   Venezuela 83 86 86 83 105 107 109 105 188
10 Rosina Randafiarison   Madagascar 75 80 83 80 95 100 100 100 180
11 Nicola Lagatao   Guam 56 59 62 59 74 77 79 77 136
Nina Sterckx   Belgium 86 86 86 DNF

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References

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  1. ^ "Weightlifting Competition Schedule". Paris 2024. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Women's 49kg - Results" (PDF). Olympics. 7 August 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2024.