Weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 49 kg

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.

Women's 49 kg at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Paris Expo Porte de Versailles
Date	7 August 2024
Competitors	12 from 12 nations
Winning total	206 kg
Medalists
Hou Zhihui  China Mihaela Cambei  Romania Surodchana Khambao  Thailand

Background

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.

Records

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

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
			1	2	3	Result	1	2	3	Result
	Hou Zhihui	China	89	89	93	89	110	117	117	117 OR	206
	Mihaela Cambei	Romania	89	91	93	93	106	110	112	112	205
	Surodchana Khambao	Thailand	86	88	88	88	110	112	114	112	200
4	Saikhom Mirabai Chanu	India	85	88	88	88	111	111	114	111	199
5	Jourdan Delacruz	United States	84	87	88	84	105	110	111	111	195
6	Fang Wan-ling	Chinese Taipei	80	83	86	86	102	106	107	107	193
7	Beatriz Pirón	Dominican Republic	85	88	88	85	102	107	110	107	192
8	Rira Suzuki	Japan	83	85	85	83	108	112	117	108	191
9	Katherin Echandia	Venezuela	83	86	86	83	105	107	109	105	188
10	Rosina Randafiarison	Madagascar	75	80	83	80	95	100	100	100	180
11	Nicola Lagatao	Guam	56	59	62	59	74	77	79	77	136
—	Nina Sterckx	Belgium	86	86	86	—	—	—	—	—	DNF