| | Event type
Featherweight (≤53 kilograms), Women
| Date | 18 September 2000 — 14:30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, New South Wales (Convention Centre) | |
| Participants | 10 from 10 countries | |
| Format | Total of best lifts in snatch and clean & jerk determined placement. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight. | |
China’s Yang Xia had won gold at the 1998 Asian Games, but otherwise came to Sydney with little international experience. However, she broke the world record in both lifts and for the total to win the gold medal easily over Chinese Taipei’s Li Feng-Ying, who was the 1999 World Champion but was 12.5 kg in arrears in Sydney. Li had been born on mainland China, quite close to Yang actually, but married the national coach for Chinese Taipei and changed citizenship. Yang was a member of China’s Tujia ethnic minority that lives in the Wuling Mountains.
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | K | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yang Xia |  CHN | 225.0 | Gold | ||
| 2 | Li Feng-Ying |  TPE | 212.5 | Silver | ||
| 3 | Winarni Binti Slamet |  INA | 202.5 | Bronze | ||
| 4 | Franca Gbodo |  NGR | 195.0 | |||
| 5 | Win Swe Swe |  MYA | 195.0 | |||
| 6 | Sanamacha Chanu |  IND | 195.0 | |||
| 7 | Mari Nakaga |  JPN | 182.5 | |||
| 8 | Mărioara Munteanu |  ROU | 180.0 | |||
| 9 | Karla Fernández |  VEN | 175.0 | |||
| 10 | Təranə Abbasova |  AZE | 165.0 |