European Championships 2021 – W59

Results and information for the Women’s 59 kg category at the European Weightlifting Championships 2021 (postponed from 2020)

See our European Weightlifting Championships 2021 hub for details of other categories. 

How the A Session Happened

This category looked set to be hard fought, with almost every athlete in the A group in with a chance of a medal. The snatches bore that out, with only seven kilos separating the field. Three made 95, meaning that the snatch medals were decided by the order of lifting, leaving Olga Te (Russia) with the gold as the first to lift the weight.

Te’s chances in the total took a big blow when a mistake from her coaches led to her being timed out on her first clean and jerk. As it turned out, the medalists on clean and jerk were the same but the order was different. Boyanka Kostova (Azerbaijan) took advantage of the opportunity and grabbed the clean and jerk and total golds with a 116 kilo jerk. Dora Tchakounte (France) had to settle for third.

Ine Andersson (Norway) was unlucky not to pick up a clean and jerk medal after a spectacular jerk recovery that saw her staggering sideways was ruled a no lift by the referees.

	Name	Nation	Entry	Snatch 1	Snatch 2	Snatch 3	C&J 1	C&J 2	C&J 3	best snatch	best c&J	total
1	KOSTOVA Boyanka	AZE	210	92	95	x97	111	x116	116	95	116	211
2	TE Olga	RUS	215	95	x98	x98	x110	110	115	95	115	210
3	TCHAKOUNTE Dora	FRA	210	92	95	x97	110	x115	115	95	115	210
4	ANDERSSON Ine	NOR	211	x86	86	88	110	113	x116	88	116	204
5	KOZLOVA Aleksandra	RUS	210	87	91	x93	105	111	x115	91	111	202
6	SMITH Zoe	GBR	215	87	x89	89	x111	111	x114	89	111	200
7	HANHUR Mariya	UKR	208	89	x93	x93	108	x113	x113	89	108	197
8	RETULAINEN Saara	FIN	208	87	90	x92	103	x110	x111	90	103	193

Start list for A Session

Lot	Name	Born	Nation	Cat.	Age	Entry
43	ANDERSSON Ine	17.08.1989	NOR	59	SE	211
47	TCHAKOUNTE Dora	23.03.1995	FRA	59	SE	210
60	KOZLOVA Aleksandra	24.04.1997	RUS	59	SE	210
70	KOSTOVA Boyanka	10.05.1993	AZE	59	SE	210
84	SMITH Zoe	26.04.1994	GBR	59	SE	215
145	BENTELI Konstantina	24.08.1993	GRE	59	SE	208
186	RETULAINEN Saara	30.05.1993	FIN	59	SE	208
207	HANHUR Mariya	24.08.2000	UKR	59	SE	208
297	TE Olga	05.03.1996	RUS	59	SE	215

For other sessions for this category, see the full start book.