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- Event dates: August 9-19, 2008
- Event venue: Beihang University Gymnasium
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The United States weightlifting team competed for a total of seven medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
The team was selected from the results of the 2008 Olympic Team Trials, which was held at the Georgia Institute of Technology on May 16-17, 2008. Three male and four female athletes, plus two alternates, represented the United States. None of the U.S. athletes however, won a medal in weightlifting. China dominated the event winning eight of the 15 gold medals available.NBC Olympics: Weightlifting 2008 Medals Standings By Nation
RosterOfficial Site: [http://weightlifting.teamusa.org/news/article/380 Olympic Team Qualified] (June 1, 2008)
- Casey Burgener
- Kendrick Farris
- Carissa Gump
- Cheryl Haworth
- Cara Heads
- Melanie Roach
- Chad Vaughn
- Lance Frye - alternate
- Natalie Woolfolk - alternate
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US Olympic Weightlifting 2008 Questions
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2008 Olympic Weightlifting Medal Winners
Men's Weightlifting Event Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 56 kg (123 lbs.) Qingquan Long - China Anh Tuan Hoang - Vietnam Eko Yuli Irawan - Indonesia 62 kg (137 lbs.) Xiangxiang Zhang - China Diego Salazar - Colombia Triyatno - Indonesia 69 kg (152 lbs.) Liao Hui - China Venceslas Dabaya-Tientcheu - France Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan - Armenia 77 kg (170 lbs) Jaehyouk Sa - South Korea Hongli Li - China Gevorg Davtyan - Armenia 85 kg (187 lbs) Lu Yong - China Andrei Rybakou - Belarus Tigran Varban Martirosyan - Armenia 94 kg (207 lbs) Ilya Ilin - Kazakhstan Szymon Kolecki - Poland Khadzhimurat Akkaev - Russia 105 kg (231 lbs) Andrei Aramnau - Belarus Dmitriy Klokov - Russia Dmitry Lapikov - Russia 105+ kg (231+ lbs) Matthias Steiner - Germany Evgeny Chigishev - Russia Viktors Scerbatihs - Latvia
Women's Weightlifting Event Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 48 kg (106 lbs.) Xiexia Chen - China Sibel Ozkan - Turkey Wei-Ling Chen - Taiwan 53 kg (117 lbs.) Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon - Thailand Jinhee Yoon - South Korea Nastassia Novikava - Belarus 58 kg (128 lbs.) Yanqing Chen - China Marina Shainova - Russia Jong Ae O - North Korea 63 kg (139 lbs) Pak Hyon Suk - North Korea Irina Nekrassova - Kazakhstan Lu Ying-Chi - Chinese Taipei 69 kg (152 lbs) Chunhong Liu - China Oxana Slivenko - Russia Natalya Davydova - Ukraine 75 kg (165 lbs) Cao Lei - China Alla Vazhednina - Kazakhstan Nadezhda Evstyukhina - Russia 75+ kg (165+ lbs) Jang Miran - South Korea Olha Korobka - Ukraine Mariya Grabovetskaya - Kazakhstan
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