The 1998 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Lahti, Finland from November 7 to November 15. The women's competition in the heavyweight (75 kg) division was staged on 14 November 1998.
Medalists edit
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snatch |  Karoliina Lundahl (FIN) |
105.0 kg |  Mónica Carrió (ESP) |
100.0 kg |  Şule Şahbaz (TUR) |
100.0 kg |
| Clean & Jerk |  Gao Xiaoyan (CHN) |
130.0 kg | Karoliina Lundahl (FIN) |
125.0 kg |  Mária Takács (HUN) |
120.0 kg |
| Total | Karoliina Lundahl (FIN) |
230.0 kg | Şule Şahbaz (TUR) |
220.0 kg | Mária Takács (HUN) |
217.5 kg |
Records edit
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | Zhao La (CHN) |
111.5 kg | Chongqing, China | 20 September 1998 |
| Clean & Jerk | World Standard | 140.0 kg | — | 1 January 1998 | |
| Total | World Standard | 250.0 kg | — | 1 January 1998 |
Results edit
| Rank | Athlete | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | ||||
 |
Karoliina Lundahl (FIN) |
74.36 | 100.0 | 105.0 | |
120.0 | 122.5 | 125.0 |  |
230.0 | |
| |
Şule Şahbaz (TUR) |
74.08 | 100.0 |  |
120.0 | 6 | 220.0 | ||||
| |
Mária Takács (HUN) |
70.75 | 97.5 | 4 | 120.0 | |
217.5 | ||||
| 4 |  Cara Heads (USA) |
73.14 | 92.5 | 95.0 | 97.5 | 5 | 107.5 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 4 | 217.5 |
| 5 | Mónica Carrió (ESP) |
73.80 | 97.5 | 100.0 | |
112.5 | 117.5 | 9 | 217.5 | ||
| 6 |  Radomíra Ševčíková (CZE) |
74.31 | 90.0 | 95.0 | 8 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 7 | 215.0 | ||
| 7 |  Line Mary (FRA) |
74.42 | 95.0 | 9 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 8 | 215.0 | |||
| 8 |  Jeane Lassen (CAN) |
73.37 | 85.0 | 13 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 5 | 205.0 | |||
| 9 |  Manuela Torazza (ITA) |
70.27 | 87.5 | 92.5 | 95.0 | 6 | 107.5 | 11 | 202.5 | ||
| 10 |  Caroline Pileggi (AUS) |
74.95 | 87.5 | 90.0 | 11 | 112.5 | 10 | 202.5 | |||
| 11 |  Venera Mannanova (RUS) |
74.06 | 95.0 | 7 | 100.0 | — | — | 19 | 195.0 | ||
| 12 |  Hiromi Fujiwara (JPN) |
74.59 | 85.0 | 90.0 | 10 | 105.0 | 13 | 195.0 | |||
| 13 |  Theano Zagkliveri (GRE) |
73.80 | 85.0 | 87.5 | 12 | 100.0 | 105.0 | 12 | 192.5 | ||
| 14 |  Margarita Rojas (COL) |
73.81 | 85.0 | 14 | 102.5 | 14 | 187.5 | ||||
| 15 | Filippia Kochliaridou (GRE) |
74.44 | 82.5 | 16 | 102.5 | 16 | 185.0 | ||||
| 16 | Diana Back (FIN) |
74.45 | 82.5 | 17 | 102.5 | 17 | 185.0 | ||||
| 17 |  Rachel Clark (GBR) |
73.10 | 80.0 | 82.5 | 15 | 100.0 | 18 | 182.5 | |||
| 18 |  Zuzana Kováčová (SVK) |
73.89 | 77.5 | 18 | 102.5 | 15 | 180.0 | ||||
| 19 |  Rosetta Penani (NRU) |
74.17 | 75.0 | 19 | 100.0 | 20 | 175.0 | ||||
| — | Ilona Dankó (HUN) |
71.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| — |  Kuo Shu-fen (TPE) |
73.62 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| — | Gao Xiaoyan (CHN) |
73.98 | — | 125.0 | 127.5 | 130.0 | |
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