Cao completes Chinese clean sweep

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Video - Cao lifts China to gold medal

Cao Lei hoisted three Olympic records to win weightlifting gold and complete a clean sweep for China's women.

Competing in the 75kg category, she lifted 128kg in the snatch and 154kg in the clean and jerk for a 282kg total.

The 24-year-old's performance means Chinese women have claimed gold in all four events they entered, the maximum number in which they could compete.

Alla Vazhenina of Kazakhstan won silver in a close duel with Russian lifter Nadezda Evstyukhina, who took bronze.

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Sunday, 24 August 2008 10:17 UK

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	TOTAL
1	also show each event results forChina	8	1	0	9
Men's 56kg		1	0	0
Men's 62kg		1	0	0
Men's 69kg		1	0	0
Men's 77kg		0	1	0
Men's 85kg		1	0	0
Women's 48kg		1	0	0
Women's 58kg		1	0	0
Women's 69kg		1	0	0
Women's 75kg		1	0	0
2	also show each event results forSouth Korea	2	1	0	3
Men's 77kg		1	0	0
Women's +75kg		1	0	0
Women's 53kg		0	1	0
3	also show each event results forKazakhstan	1	2	1	4
Men's 94kg		1	0	0
Women's +75kg		0	0	1
Women's 63kg		0	1	0
Women's 75kg		0	1	0
4	also show each event results forBelarus	1	1	1	3
Men's 105kg		1	0	0
Men's 85kg		0	1	0
Women's 53kg		0	0	1
5	also show each event results forDPR Korea	1	0	1	2
Women's 58kg		0	0	1
Women's 63kg		1	0	0
6	also show each event results forGermany	1	0	0	1
Men's +105kg		1	0	0
7	also show each event results forThailand	1	0	0	1
Women's 53kg		1	0	0
8	also show each event results forRussia	0	4	3	7
Men's +105kg		0	1	0
Men's 105kg		0	1	1
Men's 94kg		0	0	1
Women's 58kg		0	1	0
Women's 69kg		0	1	0
Women's 75kg		0	0	1
9	also show each event results forUkraine	0	1	1	2
Women's +75kg		0	1	0
Women's 69kg		0	0	1
10	also show each event results forColombia	0	1	0	1
Men's 62kg		0	1	0
11	also show each event results forFrance	0	1	0	1
Men's 69kg		0	1	0
12	also show each event results forPoland	0	1	0	1
Men's 94kg		0	1	0
13	also show each event results forTurkey	0	1	0	1
Women's 48kg		0	1	0
14	also show each event results forVietnam	0	1	0	1
Men's 56kg		0	1	0
15	also show each event results forArmenia	0	0	3	3
Men's 69kg		0	0	1
Men's 77kg		0	0	1
Men's 85kg		0	0	1
16	also show each event results forChinese Taipei	0	0	2	2
Women's 48kg		0	0	1
Women's 63kg		0	0	1
17	also show each event results forIndonesia	0	0	2	2
Men's 56kg		0	0	1
Men's 62kg		0	0	1
18	also show each event results forLatvia	0	0	1	1
Men's +105kg		0	0	1

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