Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 75 kg

Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Men			Women
	56 kg			48 kg
	62 kg			53 kg
	69 kg			58 kg
	77 kg			63 kg
	85 kg			69 kg
	94 kg			75 kg
	105 kg			+75 kg
	+105 kg

The Women's Heavyweight Weightlifting Event (– 75 kg) is the sixth weight class in women's weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 75 kilograms of body mass. The competition took place on 2000-09-20 in the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. The women's weightlifters made their olympic debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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.

María Isabel Urrutia became the first ever colombian gold medalist at Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Gold	María Isabel Urrutia  Colombia
Silver	Ruth Ogbeifo  Nigeria
Bronze	Kuo Yi-Hang  Chinese Taipei

Results

Rank	Name	NOC	Body Weight	Snatch (kg)			Clean & Jerk (kg)			Total (kg)
				1	2	3	1	2	3
	María Isabel Urrutia	Colombia	73.28	105.0	110.0	110.0	132.5	135.0	137.5	245.0
	Ruth Ogbeifo	Nigeria	74.20	105.0	110.0	110.0	135.0	140.0	142.5	245.0
	Kuo Yi-Hang	Chinese Taipei	74.52	105.0	107.5	110.0	135.0	137.5	140.0	245.0
4	Kim Soon-Hee	23x15px South Korea	73.84	105.0	110.0	110.0	135.0	137.5	140.0	240.0
5	Gyöngyi Likerecz	Hungary	74.16	102.5	105.0	107.5	122.5	125.0	125.0	227.5
6	Svetlana Kabirova	Russia	74.38	102.5	107.5	107.5	125.0	132.5	132.5	227.5
7	Cara Heads	United States	72.64	102.5	102.5	102.5	120.0	125.0	125.0	222.5
8	Wanda Rijo	Dominican Republic	73.74	90.0	95.0	100.0	120.0	120.0	120.0	215.0
9	Mónica Carrio	Spain	74.18	92.5	95.0	95.0	110.0	110.0	115.0	205.0
–	Karoliina Lundahl	Finland	74.36	102.5	102.5	102.5	—	—	—	DNF
–	Tatyana Khromova	Kazakhstan	74.68	105.0	110.0	112.5	132.5	132.5	132.5	DNF

References

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