The women's 75 kilograms weightlifting event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, took place at ExCeL London on 3 August 2012.

Summary 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. Lifters without a valid snatch score did not perform the clean and jerk.

The results of this event were significantly altered following the 2016 retesting of the original in-competition samples for banned substances.

In June 2016, following the Russian doping scandal, it was announced by the IWF that retests of samples taken from the 2012 Olympics indicated that gold medalist Svetlana Podobedova had tested positive for the prohibited substance Stanazolol.IWF public disclosures A few weeks later, the IWF reported the second wave of re-testing indicated both silver medalist Natalya Zabolotnaya and bronze medalist Iryna Kulesha had tested positive for prohibited anabolic agents.

On 26 October 2016, Podobedova was disqualified,IOC sanctions eight athletes for failing anti-doping test at London 2012, from Olympic.org. and both Zabolotnaya and Kulesha were disqualified on 21 November 2016.

Thus, Lydia Valentín of Spain, who had originally finished fourth, was declared the 2012 Olympic champion.

Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00) DateTimeEvent 3 August 2012 12:30 Group B 15:30 Group A

Records

Cao Lei's Olympic records were rescinded in 2017 because of a doping violation.

Results RankAthleteGroupBody weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total123Result123Result A 74.39 115 115 120 120 140 145 148 145 265 A 74.60 112 116 118 118 140 148 151 140 258 B 74.55 105 110 115 115 131 136 140 131 246 4 A 70.58 100 102 104 104 127 132 133 127 231 5 B 74.12 95 100 102 102 121 126 128 128 230 6 B 74.70 96 100 100 96 120 127 131 127 223 7 B 74.81 97 102 103 97 125 126 132 126 223 8 B 73.36 80 86 91 86 105 113 115 115 201 9 B 74.72 47 51 53 51 53 58 62 62 113 — A 74.23 125 125 125 — — — — — — DQ A 74.58 126 126 130 130 150 156 161 161 291 DQ A 74.80 125 128 131 131 147 155 160 160 291 DQ A 74.95 116 121 125 121 140 145 148 148 269

New records

Snatch130 kg131 kgClean & Jerk155 kg156 kg160 kg161 kgTotal286 kg291 kg

References

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