| 2006 World Weightlifting Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
| Men | Women | |
| 56 kg | 48 kg | |
| 62 kg | 53 kg | |
| 69 kg | 58 kg | |
| 77 kg | 63 kg | |
| 85 kg | 69 kg | |
| 94 kg | 75 kg | |
| 105 kg | +75 kg | |
| +105 kg | ||
The 2006 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from 30 September to 7 October. The women's 75 kilograms division was staged on 5 October 2006.
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 5 October 2006 | 12:00 | Group B |
| 16:00 | Group A |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snatch |  Nadezhda Evstyukhina (RUS) | 122 kg |  Cao Lei (CHN) | 118 kg |  Nahla Ramadan (EGY) | 115 kg |
| Clean & Jerk | Cao Lei (CHN) | 150 kg | Nadezhda Evstyukhina (RUS) | 145 kg | Zarema Kasaeva (RUS) | 136 kg |
| Total | Cao Lei (CHN) | 268 kg | Nadezhda Evstyukhina (RUS) | 267 kg | Zarema Kasaeva (RUS) | 246 kg |
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | Natalya Zabolotnaya (RUS) | 130 kg | Doha, Qatar | 13 November 2005 |
| Clean & Jerk | Liu Chunhong (CHN) | 159 kg | Doha, Qatar | 13 November 2005 | |
| Total | Svetlana Podobedova (RUS) | 286 kg | Hangzhou, China | 2 June 2006 |
| Rank | Athlete | Group | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
 | Cao Lei (CHN) | A | 71.49 | 115 | 118 |  | 145 | 150 | | 268 | ||
| Nadezhda Evstyukhina (RUS) | A | 73.65 | 115 | 118 | 122 | | 145 | | 267 | ||
 | Zarema Kasaeva (RUS) | A | 70.48 | 105 | 110 | 4 | 130 | 136 | | 246 | ||
| 4 |  Kim Soon-hee (KOR) | A | 74.54 | 105 | 110 | 6 | 133 | 5 | 243 | |||
| 5 |  Ubaldina Valoyes (COL) | A | 70.70 | 100 | 105 | 7 | 127 | 132 | 135 | 4 | 240 | |
| 6 |  Sinta Darmariani (INA) | A | 73.92 | 99 | 16 | 132 | 6 | 231 | ||||
| 7 |  Irina Vlassova (KAZ) | A | 74.35 | 95 | 100 | 11 | 125 | 130 | 7 | 230 | ||
| 8 |  Nadiya Myronyuk (UKR) | A | 74.61 | 97 | 100 | 103 | 8 | 118 | 123 | 125 | 11 | 228 |
| 9 |  Damaris Aguirre (MEX) | B | 74.56 | 98 | 102 | 9 | 120 | 125 | 10 | 227 | ||
| 10 |  Yvonne Kranz (GER) | B | 74.58 | 93 | 96 | 98 | 17 | 122 | 126 | 9 | 224 | |
| 11 |  Claret Bellorín (VEN) | B | 74.40 | 95 | 100 | 12 | 116 | 120 | 123 | 12 | 223 | |
| 12 |  Natallia Ivanenka (BLR) | B | 74.83 | 90 | 95 | 100 | 14 | 115 | 120 | 14 | 220 | |
| 13 | Yesenia Gauna (VEN) | B | 74.97 | 98 | 102 | 10 | 110 | 116 | 117 | 15 | 219 | |
| 14 |  Natividad Domínguez (DOM) | B | 74.97 | 95 | 19 | 117 | 122 | 13 | 217 | |||
| 15 |  Doreen Fullhart (USA) | B | 74.95 | 100 | 15 | 110 | 114 | 17 | 214 | |||
| 16 | Iryna Kulesha (BLR) | B | 74.88 | 90 | 94 | 97 | 18 | 105 | 110 | 115 | 16 | 212 |
| 17 |  Nguyễn Thị Phương Loan (VIE) | B | 73.16 | 93 | — | 20 | 102 | 105 | 19 | 198 | ||
| 18 |  Eleni Kourtelidou (GRE) | B | 74.41 | 81 | 85 | 21 | 105 | 106 | 18 | 191 | ||
| 19 |  Martina Szepesi (HUN) | B | 69.45 | 75 | 78 | 22 | 93 | 98 | 20 | 176 | ||
| — | Nahla Ramadan (EGY) | A | 74.58 | 111 | 115 | | — | — | ||||
| — |  Yang Houqin (MAC) | A | 74.35 | 110 | 5 | — | — | |||||
| — |  Lydia Valentín (ESP) | A | 74.65 | 100 | 13 | — | — | |||||
| — |  Kazue Imahoko (JPN) | A | 73.87 | — | 118 | 123 | 126 | 8 | — | |||
The 2006 World Weightlifting Championships were held at the Handball Pavilion and Weightlifting Pavilion Dr. José Joaquín Puello in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The event took place from September 30 to October 7, 2006.
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