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The Women's +87 kg weightlifting event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games took place at the National Exhibition Centre on 3 August 2022. The weightlifter from England won the gold, with a combined lift of 286 kg.
This was the nineteenth staging of weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 1950, and the second staging within England specifically. The competition took place between 30 July and 3 August 2022, spread across sixteen weight classes (eight per gender). [1] [2]
Prior to this competition, the existing World, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows: [2] When the previous records and weight classes were discarded following readjustment, the IWF defined "world standards" as the minimum lifts needed to qualify as world records (WR), CommonWealth Authority defined "Commonwealth standards" and "Commonwealth games standards" as the minimum lifts ...
British Championships [24] Clean & Jerk 124 kg Mubarak Musoke: 22 October 2011 British U23 Championships Oldbury, Great Britain [25] Total 220 kg Alan Ogilvie: 10 July 1999 British Championships [24]-62 kg Snatch 124 kg Gareth Evans: 27 June 2015 British Championships Coventry, Great Britain [26] Clean & Jerk 150 kg Gareth Evans: 25 July 2014
A total of 17 events were contested at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, 8 for men 7 for women and two powerlifting events. The first women's events were introduced in 2002. Between 1990 and 2002 a medal was awarded for each of the snatch and clean and jerk phases and for the combined total, offering as many as 46 gold medals in 2002. [1]
The governing body in Scotland is Weightlifting Scotland [27] (incorporated 2005). [28] In Northern Ireland it is Northern Ireland Weightlifting. [24] The governing body for England is organised as a sub-committee of British Weight Lifting. It is known externally as England Weight Lifting and internally as the England group. [29]
Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games (1 C, 20 P) Pages in category "International weightlifting competitions hosted by the United Kingdom" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
On 14 June 2022, the International Weightlifting Federation officially announced the new weight categories for Paris 2024, with the total medal count reducing from fourteen to ten. Among the weightlifting medal events, the 61 and 73 kg categories for men and the 49 and 59 kg for women remain present from Tokyo 2020. The following list is the ...