The women's Weightlifting Competition of 2008 Beijing Olympic came to an end by holding the competition in +75kg. Category, today Saturday August 16, 2008. In these battles JANG Mi-ran from South Korea _ the silver medalist of 2004 Athens Olympic, by haltering the 140kg. Weights in Snatch, 186kg. in Clean & Jerk and 326kg. in total not only became the champion of +75kg. Category but also improved the all Olympic and World records in her own category . After her a Ukrainian weightlifter with 49kg. less than the champion (277kg) got silver medal and the Kazakh lifter GRABOVETSKAYA Mariya gained the bronze medal with 270 kg. In total. She lifted 120 kg. in Snatch and 150 kg. In Clean & Jerk. It is remarkable that in the end of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Women Weightlifting Competitions, from 21 distributed medals in the seven categories, 14 medals (7 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals) were given out to the Asians.
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