Olympic Weightlifting 2016: Medal Winners, Scores and Sunday's Results

The women's over-75-kilograms competition took center stage at the weightlifting portion of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.

China's Meng Suping captured the gold medal with a total of 307 kilograms, while North Korea's Kim Kuk-Hyang won the silver with 306 kilograms, and the United States' Sarah Robles took home the bronze with 286 kilograms.

Here is a look at the medal winners and a breakdown of the two groups that competed Sunday, courtesy of the Rio Games' official website:

Competitor	Medal	Weight (Kilograms)
Meng Suping (China)	Gold	307
Kim Kuk Hyang (North Korea)	Silver	306
Sarah Robles (United States)	Bronze	286

Group A

Robles, who finished in seventh place in the 2012 Games in London and was the one American representative in Sunday's contest, started off with a solid 126-kilogram snatch in Group A.

USA Weightlifting shared the impressive showing:

However, Meng tallied a snatch of 130 kilograms, which put her in first place until Kim seized the lead before the clean and jerk with a snatch of 131 kilograms.

Robles gained some momentum back and temporarily took over first place after a clean and jerk of 160 kilograms, but Kim responded and raised her total to 293 kilograms. Meng and Kim then traded the lead until Meng clinched the gold with a formidable clean and jerk of 177 kilograms. That brought her total to 307 kilograms for the competition.

As for Robles, she clinched the first weightlifting medal for the United States since the 2000 Games, per Amy Donaldson of the Deseret News. She was thrilled after winning the bronze, via NBC Olympics:

The medal represents the culmination of Robles' comeback in weightlifting. According to Dan Levinsohn of NBC Olympics, she was banned from the sport from 2013 to 2015 because she tested positive for steroids. Before the suspension, she finished in first place in her division at the USA Weightlifting National Championships every year from 2009 to 2012. 

She finished in sixth place at the 2015 World Championships but earned an Olympic medal Sunday.

Group B

Competitor	Weight (Kilograms)
Yaniuska Isabel Espinosa (Venezuela)	273
Anastasiia Lysenko (Ukraine)	263
Yosra Dhieb (Tunisia)	249

Venezuela's Yaniuska Isabel Espinosa dictated the tone in Group B from the early going and finished with the best mark (273 kilograms). Ukraine's Anastasiia Lysenko (263 kilograms) and Tunisia's Yosra Dhieb (249 kilograms) rounded out the top three, with Georgia's Anastasiia Hotfrid (248 kilograms) coming up just short of Dhieb's total.

Espinosa posted a snatch of 121 kilograms and took the lead into the clean-and-jerk portion of the event. While Dhieb briefly surpassed her with a second clean-and-jerk attempt of 138 kilograms, Espinosa left little doubt over who the best weightlifter in Group B was Sunday.

Danny Quin of NBC Olympics observed the Venezuelan was "not messing around" as she gradually built on a clean and jerk of 145 kilograms to 149 kilograms to 152 kilograms. It ensured her position atop the leaderboard before Group A and put her at a total of 273 kilograms.

While her mark didn't hold up when Robles, Meng and Kim went in Group A, it was an impressive performance on the Olympic stage.

Reaction

Robles talked about her mindset during the performance, per Kevin Farley of TeamUSA.org:

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My main thought was just really pulling on the bar and getting underneath it and I knew the rest would take care of itself. I wasn't really thinking about medals I just really thinking about having Sarah's day and if it got me medals, cool, if it didn't then at least I had the best day. You can't complain when you do your absolute best.

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She also discussed her final clean-and-jerk lift, per Farley: “I remember my coach saying it's eight seconds against the rest of your life. So I was like 'I can do eight seconds, I've done eight seconds before, so I can do it again.’”

Thanks to those eight seconds and her showing on Sunday, she will be known as an Olympic medalist the rest of her life.