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Weightlifting competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London were held from 28 July to 7 August in the ExCeL venue. Fifteen gold medals were awarded and 260 athletes took part (156 men and 104 women).
Total score was the sum of the lifter's best result in each of the snatch and the clean and jerk, with three lifts allowed for each lift.In case of a tie, the lighter lifter won; if still tied, the lifter who took the fewest attempts to achieve the total score won.
May 10 – ?: 2012 Pan American Weightlifting Championships in Antigua Guatemala [11] Colombia won both the gold and overall medal tallies. June 4 – ?: 2012 Oceania Senior, Junior, & Youth Weightlifting Championships in Apia [12] [13] [14] Senior: Samoa won the gold medal tally. Australia won the overall medal tally.
On 15 June 2016, it was announced that gold medalist Maiya Maneza had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs at the 2012 Olympic competition. [3] On 27 July 2016, the IWF reported in the second wave of re-sampling that silver medalist Svetlana Tsarukaeva had tested positive for the steroid dehydrochlormethyltestosterone . [ 4 ]
Thus, Saeid Mohammadpour of Iran, who had originally finished fifth, was declared the 2012 Olympic champion. [4] On 6 October 2016, the IWF reported that as a consequence of the IOC's reanalyses of samples from the 2012 Olympic Games, a sample from Norayr Vardanyan of Armenia, who had originally finished 11th, had returned a positive result. In ...
On 22 December 2018, it was announced that Azerbaijan's Valentin Hristov, London 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. [3] In March 2019, Hristov was disqualified after the re-analysis of his samples were positive for oralturinabol. [4] Medals were reallocated. [5]
Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 75 kg This page was last edited on 11 December 2024, at 23:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Olympic Games: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [32] Clean & Jerk 102.5 kg Tara Nott: 21 July 2000 USA Olympic Tryouts New Orleans, United States [33] Total 185 kg Tara Nott: 21 July 2000 USA Olympic Tryouts New Orleans, United States [34] 53 kg Snatch 87 kg Cortney Batchelor: 17 March 2017 American Open Series I Reno, United States [35] Clean & Jerk 113 kg