Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 48 kg
| Women's 48 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Beihang University Gymnasium | ||||||||||||
| Date | 9 August | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 14 from 11 nations | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics  | |||||
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| 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 | |||||
The women's 48 kg weightlifting event is the lightest women's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 48 kilograms of body mass. The competition took place on August 9 at 10:00 and was the first Weightlifting event to conclude. It was the second set of medals to be awarded at the Games, a few moments after the women's 10m Air Rifle.
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.
Sibel Özkan initially won the silver medal, but in 2016 her result was annulled due to a doping violation from a reanalysis of samples from 2008.
Schedule
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2008 | 10:00 | Group A |
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Snatch |  Yang Lian (CHN) |
98 kg | Santo Domingo, Dominican | 1 October 2006 |
| Clean & Jerk | Chen Xiexia (CHN) |
120 kg | Tai'an, China | 21 April 2007 | |
| Total | Yang Lian (CHN) |
217 kg | Santo Domingo, Dominican | 1 October 2006 | |
| Olympic record | Snatch |  Nurcan Taylan (TUR) | 97 kg | Athens, Greece | 14 August 2004 |
| Clean & Jerk |  Aree Wiratthaworn (THA) | 115 kg | Athens, Greece | 14 August 2004 | |
| Total | Nurcan Taylan (TUR) | 210 kg | Athens, Greece | 14 August 2004 |
Results
| Rank | Athlete | Group | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | |||||
 | Chen Xiexia (CHN) | A | 47.46 | 90 | 93 | 95 | 95 | 113 | 115 | 117 | 117 | 212 |
| DSQ[1] | Sibel Özkan (TUR) | A | 47.80 | 86 | | 88 | 88 | | 108 | 111 | 111 | DSQ |
 |  Chen Wei-ling (TPE) | A | 47.11 | 84 | | 84 | 108 | 112 | | 112 | 196 | |
| 4 |  Im Jyoung-hwa (KOR) | A | 47.62 | 83 | 86 | | 86 | 106 | 110 | | 110 | 196 |
| 5 | Pensiri Laosirikul (THA) | A | 47.67 | | | 85 | 85 | 110 | | | 110 | 195 |
| 6 |  Hiromi Miyake (JPN) | A | 47.35 | 80 | | | 80 | 105 | | | 105 | 185 |
| 7 |  Mélanie Noël (FRA) | A | 47.91 | 75 | 78 | 80 | 80 | 97 | | | 97 | 177 |
| 8 | Misaki Oshiro (JPN) | A | 47.62 | 77 | 80 | 80 | 92 | | | 92 | 172 | |
| 9 |  Marzena Karpińska (POL) | A | 47.62 | 79 | | | 79 | | 92 | | 92 | 171 |
| 10 |  Marilou Dozois-Prévost (CAN) | A | 47.75 | 73 | 76 | | 76 | | 90 | | 90 | 166 |
| 11 |  Karla Moreno (NCA) | A | 47.07 | | 65 | | 65 | | 83 | 85 | 85 | 150 |
| — | Pramsiri Bunphithak (THA) | A | 47.95 | | | | — | — | — | — | — | DNF |
| — |  Genny Pagliaro (ITA) | A | 47.85 | | | | — | — | — | — | — | DNF |
| DSQ | Nurcan Taylan (TUR) | A | 47.84 | | | | — | — | — | — | — | DSQ |
New records
| Clean & Jerk | 117 kg | Chen Xiexia (CHN) |
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| Total | 212 kg | Chen Xiexia (CHN) |
OR |