The Women's Light-Heavyweight Weightlifting Event (69 kilograms) is the fifth women's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limited to competitors with a maximum of 69 kilograms of body mass. The competition at the 1999 World Weightlifting Championships took place in Athens, Greece on November 24, 1999.
Each lifter performed in both the snatch and clean and jerk lifts, with the final score being the sum of the lifter's best result in each. The athlete received three attempts in each of the two lifts; the score for the lift was the heaviest weight successfully lifted.
Medalists edit
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snatch |  Erzsébet Márkus (HUN) |
107.5 kg |  Milena Trendafilova (BUL) |
105.0 kg |  Sun Tianni (CHN) |
105.0 kg |
| Clean & Jerk | Sun Tianni (CHN) |
142.5 kg |  Irina Kasimova (RUS) |
130.0 kg | Milena Trendafilova (BUL) |
127.5 kg |
| Total | Sun Tianni (CHN) |
247.5 kg | Milena Trendafilova (BUL) |
232.5 kg | Erzsébet Márkus (HUN) |
232.5 kg |
Records edit
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | Sun Tianni (CHN) |
111.0 kg | Bangkok, Thailand | 11 December 1998 |
| Clean & Jerk | Lin Weining (CHN) |
142.5 kg | Wuhan, China | 3 September 1999 | |
| Total | Lin Weining (CHN) |
252.5 kg | Wuhan, China | 3 September 1999 |
Results edit
| Rank | Athlete | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | ||||
 |
Sun Tianni (CHN) |
67.80 | 105.0 |  |
132.5 | 137.5 | 143.0 | |
247.5 | ||
 |
Milena Trendafilova (BUL) |
66.99 | 100.0 | 105.0 | |
127.5 | |
232.5 | |||
| |
Erzsébet Márkus (HUN) |
68.52 | 100.0 | 105.0 | 107.5 | |
120.0 | 125.0 | 6 | 232.5 | |
| 4 |  Pawina Thongsuk (THA) |
66.42 | 100.0 | 102.5 | 4 | 125.0 | 5 | 227.5 | |||
| 5 | Irina Kasimova (RUS) |
68.92 | 97.5 | 11 | 130.0 | |
227.5 | ||||
| 6 | Aphinya Pharksupho (THA) |
66.19 | 95.0 | 100.0 | 5 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 4 | 225.0 | ||
| 7 | Olga Glaz (RUS) |
67.93 | 95.0 | 100.0 | 6 | 117.5 | 122.5 | 7 | 222.5 | ||
| 8 |  Lea Foreman (USA) |
68.30 | 95.0 | 100.0 | 8 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 11 | 220.0 | ||
| 9 |  Beata Prei (POL) |
68.54 | 92.5 | 97.5 | 10 | 122.5 | 9 | 220.0 | |||
| 10 | Daniela Kerkelova (BUL) |
68.04 | 90.0 | 95.0 | 12 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 10 | 215.0 | ||
| 11 |  Maria Tatsi (GRE) |
68.00 | 87.5 | 22 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 122.5 | 8 | 210.0 | ||
| 12 |  Michelle Kettner (AUS) |
67.70 | 92.5 | 97.5 | 9 | 110.0 | 17 | 207.5 | |||
| 13 |  Elizabeth Jeremiah (NGR) |
68.19 | 92.5 | 15 | 110.0 | 115.0 | 14 | 207.5 | |||
| 14 |  Vanda Maslovska (UKR) |
68.53 | 92.5 | 95.0 | 14 | 112.5 | 16 | 207.5 | |||
| 15 |  Park Mi-jung (KOR) |
68.77 | 85.0 | 90.0 | 19 | 112.5 | 117.5 | 13 | 207.5 | ||
| 16 |  Madeleine Yamechi (CMR) |
68.74 | 82.5 | 87.5 | 90.0 | 18 | 107.5 | 112.5 | 115.0 | 15 | 205.0 |
| 17 |  Eva Dimas (ESA) |
68.47 | 92.5 | 16 | 110.0 | 19 | 202.5 | ||||
| 18 | Khadijah Hunter (USA) |
68.25 | 87.5 | 92.5 | 95.0 | 13 | 102.5 | 26 | 197.5 | ||
| 19 |  Julie Malenfant (CAN) |
66.09 | 90.0 | 17 | 100.0 | 105.0 | 22 | 195.0 | |||
| 20 |  Miosotis Heredia (DOM) |
67.82 | 87.5 | 21 | 105.0 | 24 | 192.5 | ||||
| 21 |  Susanna Samuelsson (FIN) |
68.26 | 80.0 | 82.5 | 25 | 107.5 | 110.0 | 18 | 192.5 | ||
| 22 | Ewa Kuraś (POL) |
68.54 | 85.0 | 24 | 107.5 | 21 | 192.5 | ||||
| 23 |  Marlène Gudin (FRA) |
68.51 | 85.0 | 87.5 | 20 | 100.0 | 102.5 | 25 | 190.0 | ||
| 24 |  Ruth Rivera (PUR) |
67.68 | 80.0 | 85.0 | 23 | 100.0 | 105.0 | 23 | 190.0 | ||
| 25 | Simone Ingram (AUS) |
68.71 | 75.0 | 80.0 | 27 | 100.0 | 28 | 180.0 | |||
| 26 |  María Eugenia Villamizar (COL) |
67.86 | 77.5 | 80.0 | 26 | 95.0 | 97.5 | 30 | 177.5 | ||
| 27 |  Lessya Karasseva (KAZ) |
65.94 | 70.0 | 75.0 | 77.5 | 28 | 90.0 | 95.0 | 97.5 | 29 | 175.0 |
| 28 | Valida Iskanderova (KAZ) |
67.98 | 70.0 | 75.0 | 29 | 95.0 | 100.0 | 27 | 175.0 | ||
| 29 |  Tina Beiter (DEN) |
68.05 | 72.5 | 31 | 97.5 | 31 | 170.0 | ||||
| 30 |  Carolina Hernández (MEX) |
68.34 | 72.5 | 75.0 | 30 | 90.0 | 32 | 165.0 | |||
| 31 |  Meital Moshkovitz (ISR) |
67.18 | 50.0 | 55.0 | 32 | 62.5 | 67.5 | 33 | 122.5 | ||
| 32 |  Mariet Spronk (NED) |
68.48 | 50.0 | 55.0 | 33 | 60.0 | 34 | 115.0 | |||
| — |  Neelam Setti Laxmi (IND) |
68.09 | 100.0 | 7 | — | — | |||||
| — |  Huang Shih-chun (TPE) |
68.43 | — | 120.0 | 12 | — | |||||
| — | Filippia Kochliaridou (GRE) |
68.29 | — | 107.5 | 20 | — | |||||
| — |  Manuela Torazza (ITA) |
67.82 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
New records edit
| Clean & Jerk | 143.0 kg | Sun Tianni (CHN)
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