Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 53 kg

The weight lifting for women in the class up to 53 kg ( featherweight ) at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on 29 July 2012 at the Exhibition Centre London. It occurred in 18 athletes.

The competition consisted of two parts: Tear ( Snatch ) and put ( Clean and Jerk ). The participants at first in the snatch, in which they had three attempts. Who did not have a valid attempt was eliminated. In pushing each starter had three attempts again. Won The athlete with the highest weight added together. In the event of a tie, the lower body weight tipped the scales.

Title holders

Existing Records

Final result

Sülfija Tschinschanlo (KAZ ), the World Champion of 2009 and 2011, the first Kazakh Olympic victory was achieved in this weight class. Cristina Iovu ( MDA), reigning European champion, won the first Moldovan medal in this weight class. At the same time it was the first Moldavian medal in the women's competitions. The Turkish woman Aylin Daşdelen, four -time European champion, was injured in the second trial of poking at the elbow and had to quit the race. Shortly after the competition, the allegation was made in the Chinese media, the Olympic champion was Chinese ( Tschinschanlo part of the Chinese minority of Dungan ). The Chinese news agency Xinhua stated that she was born in China's Hunan Province, have a Chinese name ( Zhao Changling ) and speak Chinese. In 2008, she was pulled due to a 5-year contract to Kazakhstan. Talmat Jermigijajew, Chairman of Kazakhstan Agency for Sports and Physical Culture, however, stated expressly that Sülfija Tschinschanlo Kazakh was. He do not know why foreign media to discuss a change of citizenship. Just one day before Tschinschanlo described himself in an interview, the statements about them as lies.

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