Weightlifting at the 2008 Olympic Games

How close each class finished and how often the lifters made their attempts.

Attempts made

58%

842 good lifts from the 1,447 attempts taken. For comparison, lifters at senior World Championships and Olympic Games since 1998 make 57%.

Lifters without a total

60 of 254

36 with no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk, 2 entered without taking an attempt and 22 with a good lift in each but no total in the published results.

Winning margin in each class

The winner's total minus the runner-up's. The closest finals: Men's 77 kg and Women's 48 kg ended with gold and silver on the same total, decided by bodyweight, the lighter lifter ahead. The widest: Women's +75 kg by 57 kg. A short bar is a close final; a long one, a class the winner had to themselves.

Each class lists the place, the total and all six attempts. A struck-through weight is a missed attempt and a dash an attempt not taken. A dash in the place column means no total was recorded, most often after three misses in the snatch or in the clean and jerk. Where two lifters tie and the results cannot separate them, both are shown without a place.