Weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 49 kg
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The Women's 49 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris took place on 7 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.[1]
| Women's 49 kg at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Paris Expo Porte de Versailles | ||||||||||||
| Date | 7 August 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 12 from 12 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning total | 206 kg | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Lifters from the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 - Medallists Hou Zhihui of China and Saikhom Mirabai Chanu of India - along with other participants, Chinese Taipei's Fang Wan-ling, United States' Jourdan Delacruz, Dominican Republic's Beatriz Pirón and Belgium's Nina Sterckx - returns for this event, along with debutants. Among them are Romania's Mihaela Cambei and Venezuela's Katherin Echandia, who are the medallists of the event at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, Rira Suzuki, aged 26, was chosen to replace retired Hiromi Miyake for Japan.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch |  Hou Zhihui (CHN) | 97 kg | Phuket, Thailand | 1 April 2024 | |
| Clean & Jerk |  Ri Song-gum (PRK) | 125 kg | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 4 February 2024 | ||
| Total | Ri Song-gum (PRK) | 221 kg | Phuket, Thailand | 1 April 2024 | ||
| Olympic Record | Snatch |  Hou Zhihui (CHN) | 94 kg | Tokyo, Japan | 24 July 2021 | |
| Clean & Jerk | Hou Zhihui (CHN) | 116 kg | Tokyo, Japan | 24 July 2021 | ||
| Total | Hou Zhihui (CHN) | 210 kg | Tokyo, Japan | 24 July 2021 | ||
The Olympic record for Clean & Jerk was re-established during the competition:
| Category | Athlete | New record | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clean & Jerk | Hou Zhihui (CHN) | 117 kg | OR |
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | ||||
 | Hou Zhihui | China |
89 | 89 | 110 | 117 | 117 OR | 206 | |||
 | Mihaela Cambei |  Romania |
89 | 91 | 93 | 93 | 106 | 110 | 112 | 112 | 205 |
 | Surodchana Khambao |  Thailand |
86 | 88 | 88 | 110 | 112 | 112 | 200 | ||
| 4 | Saikhom Mirabai Chanu |  India |
85 | 88 | 88 | 111 | 111 | 199 | |||
| 5 | Jourdan Delacruz |  United States |
84 | 84 | 105 | 111 | 111 | 195 | |||
| 6 | Fang Wan-ling |  Chinese Taipei |
80 | 83 | 86 | 86 | 102 | 107 | 107 | 193 | |
| 7 | Beatriz Pirón |  Dominican Republic |
85 | 85 | 102 | 107 | 107 | 192 | |||
| 8 | Rira Suzuki |  Japan |
83 | 83 | 108 | 108 | 191 | ||||
| 9 | Katherin Echandia |  Venezuela |
83 | 83 | 105 | 105 | 188 | ||||
| 10 | Rosina Randafiarison |  Madagascar |
75 | 80 | 80 | 95 | 100 | 100 | 180 | ||
| 11 | Nicola Lagatao |  Guam |
56 | 59 | 59 | 74 | 77 | 77 | 136 | ||
| — | Nina Sterckx |  Belgium |
— | — | — | — | — | DNF | |||
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