| | Event type
Light-Heavyweight (≤69 kilograms), Women
| Date | 19 September 2000 — 18:30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, New South Wales (Convention Centre) | |
| Participants | 15 from 13 countries | |
| Format | Total of best lifts in snatch and clean & jerk determined placement. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight. | |
Chinese lifters had won the World Championships in 1997-99, but it was three different lifters, and China rolled out another one in Sydney, bringing in Lin Weining, but it didn’t matter, as Lin still won the gold medal. She tied on total lift with 242.5 kg with Erzsébet Márkus-Peresztegi of Hungary, bronze medalist at the 1999 Worlds, but Márkus-Peresztegi was heavier, dropping her to the silver medal. Bronze went to Karnam Malleswari, the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal.
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | K | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lin Weining |  CHN | 242.5 | Gold | ||
| 2 | Erzsébet Márkus-Peresztegi |  HUN | 242.5 | Silver | ||
| 3 | Karnam Malleswari |  IND | 240.0 | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Milena Trendafilova |  BUL | 232.5 | |||
| 5 | Daniela Kerkelova | BUL | 232.5 | |||
| 6 | Irina Kasimova |  RUS | 230.0 | |||
| 7 | Pawina Thongsuk |  THA | 225.0 | |||
| 8 | Beata Prei |  POL | 225.0 | |||
| 9 | Michelle Kettner |  AUS | 222.5 | |||
| 10 | Apinya Pharksupho | THA | 222.5 | |||
| 11 | Maria Tatsi |  GRE | 220.0 | |||
| 12 | Eva Dimas |  ESA | 202.5 | |||
| 13 | Ruth Rivera |  PUR | 187.5 | |||
| 14 | Valerie Pedro |  PLW | 160.0 | |||
| Nagwan El-Zawawi |  EGY | 92.5 |