The women's 63 kilograms weightlifting event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, took place at ExCeL London.
Summary Total score was the sum of the lifter's best result in each of the snatch and the clean and jerk, with three lifts allowed for each lift. In case of a tie, the lighter lifter won; if still tied, the lifter who took the fewest attempts to achieve the total score won. Lifters without a valid snatch score did not perform the clean and jerk.
On 15 June 2016, it was announced that gold medalist Maiya Maneza had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs at the 2012 Olympic competition.London 2012: Four Olympic weightlifting champions test positive On 27 July 2016, the IWF reported in the second wave of re-sampling that silver medalist Svetlana Tsarukaeva had tested positive for the steroid dehydrochlormethyltestosterone. On 5 April 2017 it was announced that as a result of retesting samples she had been disqualified for a drug violation, and her silver medal withdrawn.
Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00) DateTimeEvent 31 July 2012 15:30 Group A
Records
Results
RankAthleteGroupBody weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total123Result123Result A 62.87 103 105 105 103 130 133 135 133 236 A 62.66 98 102 105 102 125 131 134 131 233 A 62.91 99 103 104 99 119 125 127 125 224 4 A 59.65 78 83 86 83 98 103 106 103 186 5 A 61.45 78 82 85 82 100 105 105 100 182 6 A 62.45 76 79 79 79 91 97 97 97 176 7 A 58.11 70 75 75 75 92 97 101 97 172 DQ A 62.21 106 110 112 110 135 144 144 135 245 DQ A 62.42 106 111 112 112 125 130 130 125 237 DQ A 62.28 105 105 105 105 130 133 133 130 235
New records Total245 kg
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