1999 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 58 kg

1999 World Weightlifting Championships
	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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The Women's Lightweight Weightlifting Event (58 kg) is the third women's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limited to competitors with a maximum of 58 kilograms of body mass. The competition at the 1999 World Weightlifting Championships took place in Athens, Greece on 22 November 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[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Snatch	Chen Yanqing (CHN)	105.0 kg	Ri Song-hui (PRK)	100.0 kg	(TPE)	97.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Ri Song-hui (PRK)	130.0 kg	Chen Yanqing (CHN)	130.0 kg	(TPE)	125.0 kg
Total	Chen Yanqing (CHN)	235.0 kg	Ri Song-hui (PRK)	230.0 kg	(TPE)	222.5 kg

Records[]

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

World Record	Snatch	Chen Yanqing (CHN)	102.5 kg	Savannah, United States	4 July 1999
	Clean & Jerk	Chen Yanqing (CHN)	130.0 kg	Savannah, United States	4 July 1999
	Total	Chen Yanqing (CHN)	232.5 kg	Savannah, United States	4 July 1999

Results[]

Rank	Athlete	Body weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
			1	2	3	Rank	1	2	3	Rank
	Chen Yanqing (CHN)	57.47	100.0	100.0	105.0		125.0	130.0	135.0		235.0
	Ri Song-hui (PRK)	55.93	95.0	97.5	100.0		125.0	131.0	135.0		230.0
	(TPE)	57.33	92.5	95.0	97.5		120.0	122.5	125.0		222.5
4	Khassaraporn Suta (THA)	57.48	87.5	92.5	97.5	4	117.5	117.5	125.0	4	217.5
5	(BUL)	56.70	85.0	90.0	92.5	5	110.0	115.0	120.0	6	205.0
6	Maryse Turcotte (CAN)	57.45	85.0	85.0	90.0	10	115.0	117.5	120.0	5	202.5
7	Khin Moe Nwe (MYA)	57.20	87.5	90.0	92.5	6	110.0	110.0	115.0	8	200.0
8	Soraya Jiménez (MEX)	57.30	85.0	87.5	87.5	8	107.5	112.5	112.5	7	197.5
9	Evelyn Ebhomien (NGR)	56.38	80.0	85.0	87.5	7	105.0	110.0	110.0	11	190.0
10	Ingeborg Marx (BEL)	57.77	75.0	80.0	85.0	18	105.0	110.0	115.0	9	190.0
11	Nataliya Skakun (UKR)	57.12	75.0	80.0	82.5	13	95.0	100.0	105.0	12	187.5
12	Dagmar Daneková (SVK)	57.30	80.0	85.0	87.5	9	102.5	107.5	107.5	17	187.5
13	Melanie Kosoff-Roach (USA)	57.08	72.5	72.5	77.5	21	100.0	105.0	107.5	10	185.0
14	(VEN)	57.20	80.0	80.0	85.0	17	105.0	107.5	107.5	13	185.0
15	Michaela Breeze (GBR)	57.51	80.0	82.5	85.0	14	100.0	102.5	105.0	18	185.0
16	(HUN)	57.85	77.5	82.5	85.0	11	100.0	100.0	102.5	24	185.0
17	(THA)	57.63	82.5	87.5	87.5	16	100.0	105.0	105.0	20	182.5
18	(RUS)	57.98	72.5	77.5	77.5	24	100.0	105.0	107.5	14	182.5
19	Yuriko Takahashi (JPN)	55.18	77.5	82.5	82.5	19	102.5	107.5	107.5	15	180.0
20	Aleksandra Klejnowska (POL)	56.80	72.5	77.5	80.0	20	95.0	100.0	102.5	16	180.0
21	Tarana Abbasova (AZE)	57.01	75.0	80.0	82.5	12	97.5	102.5	102.5	25	180.0
22	(FRA)	57.62	82.5	82.5	85.0	15	95.0	100.0	100.0	26	177.5
23	Souad Dinar (FRA)	57.65	72.5	75.0	77.5	22	100.0	105.0	105.0	21	177.5
24	Natasha Barker (AUS)	57.82	72.5	77.5	80.0	23	92.5	97.5	100.0	23	177.5
25	(IND)	57.98	75.0	75.0	80.0	28	95.0	102.5	107.5	19	177.5
26	(KAZ)	57.75	67.5	72.5	75.0	25	87.5	95.0	97.5	27	170.0
27	Namkhaidorjiin Bayarmaa (MGL)	57.81	70.0	75.0	75.0	32	95.0	100.0	100.0	22	170.0
28	(CAN)	57.94	70.0	75.0	77.5	26	87.5	92.5	95.0	28	167.5
29	(ESA)	57.98	70.0	75.0	77.5	27	92.5	97.5	97.5	29	167.5
30	(GRE)	57.61	67.5	70.0	72.5	29	85.0	90.0	92.5	30	162.5
31	(POR)	57.97	67.5	70.0	70.0	34	87.5	90.0	92.5	31	160.0
32	(CZE)	57.47	65.0	65.0	70.0	31	85.0	85.0	90.0	32	155.0
33	(GBR)	57.54	62.5	65.0	67.5	35	77.5	80.0	82.5	33	150.0
34	(DEN)	57.92	65.0	70.0	70.0	38	80.0	82.5	85.0	34	147.5
35	Tatyana Koshevnikova (KAZ)	57.80	60.0	65.0	70.0	36	75.0	80.0	85.0	35	145.0
36	(SVK)	57.85	60.0	65.0	70.0	37	80.0	85.0	85.0	36	145.0
37	(DEN)	57.20	57.5	60.0	60.0	39	72.5	72.5	77.5	38	132.5
38	(ISR)	57.42	52.5	57.5	57.5	40	62.5	67.5	67.5	39	115.0
39	(NED)	57.07	40.0	42.5	45.0	41	45.0	50.0	52.5	40	92.5
—	(ITA)	57.80	72.5	77.5	77.5	30	95.0	95.0	95.0	—	—
—	(AZE)	57.95	70.0	70.0	70.0	33	90.0	90.0	90.0	—	—
—	Leila Lassouani (ALG)	57.96	57.5	60.0	60.0	—	77.5	82.5	82.5	37	—
—	Teresa van der Stoep (NED)	57.96	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

New records[]

Snatch	105.0 kg	Chen Yanqing (CHN)	WR
Clean & Jerk	131.0 kg	Ri Song-hui (PRK)	WR
Total	235.0 kg	Chen Yanqing (CHN)	WR

References[]

• Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics, Page 20

External links[]

• Weightlifting Databank