| Weightlifting – Women's 71 kg at the 2022 Commonwealth Games | ||||||||||
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| Venue | National Exhibition Centre | |||||||||
| Dates | 1 August | |||||||||
| Competitors | 12 from 12 nations | |||||||||
| Winning total | 229 kg | |||||||||
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| Weightlifting at the 2022 Commonwealth Games | ||
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| Qualification | ||
| Men | Women | |
| 55 kg | 49 kg | |
| 61 kg | 55 kg | |
| 67 kg | 59 kg | |
| 73 kg | 64 kg | |
| 81 kg | 71 kg | |
| 96 kg | 76 kg | |
| 109 kg | 87 kg | |
| +109 kg | +87 kg | |
The women's 71 kg weightlifting event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games took place at the National Exhibition Centre on 1 August 2022. [1]
Prior to this competition, the existing World, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows: [2]
When the previous records and weight classes were discarded following readjustment, the IWF defined "world standards" as the minimum lifts needed to qualify as world records (WR), CommonWealth Authority defined "Commonwealth standards" and "Commonwealth games standards" as the minimum lifts needed to qualify as Commonwealth record (CR) and Commonwealth games record (GR) in the new weight classes. Wherever World Standard/Commonwealth Standard/Commonwealth Games Standard appear in the list below, no qualified weightlifter has yet lifted the benchmark weights in a sanctioned competition.
| World record | Snatch | World Standard | 117 kg | ||
| Clean & Jerk |  Zhang Wangli (CHN) | 152 kg | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 6 November 2018 | |
| Total | Zhang Wangli (CHN) | 267 kg | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 6 November 2018 | |
| Commonwealth record | Snatch |  Sarah Davies (ENG) | 102 kg | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 13 December 2021 |
| Clean & Jerk | Sarah Davies (ENG) | 132 kg | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 13 December 2021 | |
| Total | Sarah Davies (ENG) | 234 kg | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 13 December 2021 | |
| Games record | Snatch | Commonwealth Games Standard | 98 kg | ||
| Clean & Jerk | Commonwealth Games Standard | 123 kg | |||
| Total | Commonwealth Games Standard | 219 kg |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Snatch | 103 kg |  Sarah Davies (ENG) | CR, GR |
| Clean & Jerk | 126 kg | Sarah Davies (ENG) | GR |
| Total | 229 kg | Sarah Davies (ENG) | GR |
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
| Date | Time | Round |
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| Monday 1 August 2022 | 18:30 | Final |
| Rank | Athlete | Body weight (kg) | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | ||||
 | Sarah Davies (ENG) | 70.58 | 97 | 101 | 103 | 103 CR, GR | 126 | 126 GR | 229 GR | ||
 |  Alexis Ashworth (CAN) | 70.20 | 91 | 91 | 112 | 116 | 123 | 123 | 214 | ||
 |  Harjinder Kaur (IND) | 69.14 | 90 | 93 | 93 | 113 | 116 | 119 | 119 | 212 | |
| 4 |  Kiana Rose Elliott (AUS) | 67.39 | 90 | 94 | 94 | 105 | 108 | 110 | 110 | 204 | |
| 5 |  Nancy Genzel Abouke (NRU) | 68.40 | 87 | 87 | 110 | 110 | 197 | ||||
| 6 |  Megan Signal (NZL) | 70.73 | 88 | 88 | 108 | 108 | 196 | ||||
| 7 |  Ketty Lent (MRI) | 70.29 | 82 | 87 | 87 | 107 | 107 | 194 | |||
| 8 |  Roberta Tabone (MLT) | 69.97 | 82 | 84 | 86 | 86 | 101 | 105 | 105 | 191 | |
| 9 |  Faye Pittman (WAL) | 70.22 | 81 | 81 | 105 | 108 | 108 | 189 | |||
| 10 |  Holly O'Shea (GIB) | 68.75 | 70 | 74 | 74 | 89 | 93 | 97 | 97 | 171 | |
| — |  Joy Ogbonne Eze (NGR) | 69.79 | 95 | 100 | 100 | — | DNF | ||||
| — |  Alice Aitchison (SCO) | 69.88 | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | |||
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu is an Indian weightlifter. She won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Women's 49 kg category. Mirabai Chanu has won the World Championships and multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games. She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India for her contributions to the sport. She was awarded the sporting honour Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna by the Government of India in 2018.
Sarah Davies is a British weightlifter, competing in the 64 kg and 69 kg categories internationally and representing England and Great Britain at international competitions. She won the silver medal in the women's 71 kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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