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Aug 6, 2016; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;  Sopita Tanasan (THA) during the women's 48kg weightlifting event in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Riocentro - Pavilion 2. Mandatory Credit: Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY Sports
Aug 6, 2016; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Sopita Tanasan (THA) during the women's 48kg weightlifting event in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Riocentro - Pavilion 2. Mandatory Credit: Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY SportsRobert Hanashiro-USA TODAY Sports

Olympic Weightlifting 2016: Medal Winners and Scores After Saturday's Results

Joe PantornoAug 6, 2016

Thailand's Sopita Tanasan took home the gold medal in the women's 48-kilogram weightlifting class after putting up a combined score of 200 on Saturday.

Competitors were required to execute two different styles of lifts in the snatch along with the clean and jerk, with their scores being put together to determine the standings. 

Here are the full results:

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GoldSopita TanasanThailand92108200
SilverSri Wahyuni AgustianiIndonesia85107192
BronzeHiromi MiyakeJapan81107188
4Beatriz Elizabeth Piron CandelarioDominican Republic85102187
5Margarita YelisseyevaKazahkstan80106186
6Morghan Whitney KingUnited States83100183
7Wei-Ling ChenChinese Taipei81100181
8Iuliia ParatovaUkraine8495179
9Roilya RanaivosoaMauritius8093173
10Zhanyl OkoevaKyrgyzstan7297169
11Chanu Saikhom MirabaiIndia82NoneDNF
12Thi Huyen VuongVietnamNone-DNF

Tanasan built a big seven-kilogram lead after the first portion of the competition. She was the only lifter to snatch over 90 kilograms.

On the clean and jerk, she started with a 106-kilogram lift, which immediately put her back into first place by nine points. She did two kilograms better on her second attempt before failing on her third attempt at 110 kilograms.

Indonesia's Sri Wahyuni Agustiani took silver with a total score of 192. In order to get gold, she had to execute a clean and jerk at 115 kilograms. It would have been a personal best by two kilogramsand been just two kilos off the Olympic record. But in two attempts, she wasn't able to complete the titanic effort.

For Japan's Hiromi Miyake, her fourth time at the Olympics wasn't a charm. Though she came away with the bronze, her wait for a gold medal must continue.

It was a disastrous start, as she failed her first two attempts. One more would have immediately disqualified her. On her third attempt at 81 kilograms, her legs almost buckled, but she fought it out and was able to get the weight up.

On the clean and jerk, she was able to put up 107 kilograms on her final attempt, which she rushed after her second attempt was disqualified because of an illegal elbow touch. 

The United States had a rare participant in the event, as Morghan Whitney King finished in sixth place with a total score of 183. 

After putting up 83 kilograms on the snatch, she was able to put her first clean-and-jerk attempt of 100 kilograms up. But the following two attempts at 103 kilograms were narrowly unsuccessful. 

She was the first American in the event since Tara Nott, who won the gold medal in Sydney, Australia, at the 2000 Summer Games.

One of the biggest surprises came in the form of Vietnam's Thi Huyen Vuong, who finished in second at last year's world championships. On Saturday, she bombed out of the competition in the snatch stage, as she was unable to record a successful attempt.

Stats courtesy of Rio2016.com.

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