Weightlifting at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beihang University Gymnasium
Dates	9–19 August 2008
No. of events	15
Competitors	253 from 83 nations
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Weightlifting at the 2008 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
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Weightlifting competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China were held from August 9 to August 19. Competitions were conducted at the Beihang University Gymnasium.

The medal records at the 2008 Games were heavily amended following a re-analysis of competitors samples in 2015, 2016 and 2017. 26 lifters were disqualified due to these tests, including 16 medalists and four lifters who stood to inherit forfeited medals.

Qualification

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	5	1	0	6
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	0	4
3	Russia (RUS)	1	2	0	3
4	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	1	0	2
	North Korea (PRK)	1	1	0	2
6	Thailand (THA)	1	0	2	3
7	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
8	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	0	1
	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
11	Colombia (COL)	0	2	0	2
12	Armenia (ARM)	0	1	1	2
13	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Georgia (GEO)	0	1	0	1
	Samoa (SAM)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
	Vietnam (VIE)	0	1	0	1
18	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	3	3
	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	3	3
20	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	1	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		15	15	15	45

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details	Long Qingquan  China	Hoàng Anh Tuấn  Vietnam	Eko Yuli Irawan  Indonesia
62 kg details	Zhang Xiangxiang  China	Diego Salazar  Colombia	Triyatno  Indonesia
69 kg[a] details	Liao Hui  China	Vencelas Dabaya  France	Yordanis Borrero  Cuba
77 kg details	Sa Jae-hyouk  South Korea	Li Hongli  China	Gevorg Davtyan  Armenia
85 kg[b] details	Lu Yong  China	Tigran Martirosyan  Armenia	Jadier Valladares  Cuba
94 kg[c] details	Szymon Kołecki  Poland	Arsen Kasabiev  Georgia	Yoandry Hernández  Cuba
105 kg[d] details	Andrei Aramnau  Belarus	Dmitry Klokov  Russia	Marcin Dołęga  Poland
+105 kg details	Matthias Steiner  Germany	Evgeny Chigishev  Russia	Viktors Ščerbatihs  Latvia

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg[e] details	Chen Wei-ling  Chinese Taipei	Im Jyoung-hwa  South Korea	Pensiri Laosirikul  Thailand
53 kg[g] details	Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon  Thailand	Yoon Jin-hee  South Korea	Raema Lisa Rumbewas  Indonesia
58 kg[h] details	Chen Yanqing  China	O Jong-ae  North Korea	Wandee Kameaim  Thailand
63 kg[i] details	Pak Hyon-suk  North Korea	Lu Ying-chi  Chinese Taipei	Christine Girard  Canada
69 kg[j] details	Oxana Slivenko  Russia	Leydi Solís  Colombia	Abeer Abdelrahman  Egypt
75 kg[k] details	Alla Vazhenina  Kazakhstan	Lydia Valentín  Spain	Damaris Aguirre  Mexico
+75 kg[l] details	Jang Mi-ran  South Korea	Ele Opeloge  Samoa	Mariam Usman  Nigeria

• ^{Men's 69 kg} Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan of Armenia originally won the bronze medal, but he was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of his 2008 sample.^[1]
• ^{Men's 85 kg} Andrei Rybakou of Belarus originally won the silver medal, but he was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of his 2008 sample.^[2]
• ^{Men's 94 kg} Ilya Ilyin of Kazakhstan and Khadzhimurat Akkaev of Russia originally won the gold and medal bronze medal respectively, but they were disqualified after positive anti-doping tests of their 2008 samples.^[3][4]
• ^{Men's 105 kg} Dmitry Lapikov of Russia originally won the bronze medal, but he was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of his 2008 sample.^[4]
• ^{Women's 48 kg} Chen Xiexia of China and Sibel Özkan of Turkey originally won the gold and silver medal respectively, but they were disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of their 2008 samples.^{[5] [6][7]}
• ^{Women's 53 kg} Nastassia Novikava of Belarus originally won the bronze medal, but she was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of her 2008 sample.^[2]
• ^{Women's 58 kg} Marina Shainova of Russia originally won the silver medal, but she was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of her 2008 sample.^[1]
• ^{Women's 63 kg} Irina Nekrassova of Kazakhstan originally won the silver medal, but she was disqualified after a positive anti-doping test of her 2008 sample.^[4]
• ^{Women's 69 kg} Liu Chunhong of China and Nataliya Davydova of Ukraine originally won the gold and bronze medal respectively, but they were disqualified after positive anti-doping tests of their 2008 samples.^[5][4]
• ^{Women's 75 kg} Cao Lei of China and Nadezhda Evstyukhina of Russia originally won the gold and bronze medal respectively, but they were disqualified after positive anti-doping test of their 2008 samples.^[5][1]
• ^{Women's +75 kg} Olha Korobka of Ukraine and Mariya Grabovetskaya of Kazakhstan originally won the silver and bronze medal respectively, but they were disqualified after positive anti-doping test of their 2008 samples.^[2][4]

Participating nations

A total of 253 weightlifters from 83 nations competed at the Beijing Games: