1997 European Weightlifting Championships

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The 1997 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Rijeka, Croatia for the men. The women competition were held in Sevilla, Spain. It was the 76th edition of the men event, and the 10th for the women.

Medal overview[]

Men[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
– 54 kg	Halil Mutlu	Sevdalin Angelov
– 59 kg	Nikolay Peshalov	Leonidas Sabanis
– 64 kg	Hafız Süleymanoğlu	Zoltán Farkas
– 70 kg	Ergün Batmaz	Zlatan Vanev	Plamen Zhelyazkov
– 76 kg	Yoto Yotov	Ingo Steinhoefel	Ruslan Savchenko
– 83 kg	Marc Huster	Dursun Sevinc
– 91 kg	Sunay Bulut	Oliver Caruso	Oleh Chumak
– 99 kg	Stanislav Rybalchenko	Dmitry Smirnov	Martin Tesovic
– 108 kg	Denys Hotfrid	Evgeny Chichliannikov	Viktors Ščerbatihs
+ 108 kg	Tibor Stark	Raimonds Bergmanis	Stian Grimseth

Women[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
– 46 kg			Donka Mincheva
– 50 kg		Izabela Dragneva
– 54 kg			Dagmar Danekova
– 59 kg			Josefa Perez
– 64 kg	Ioanna Chatziioannou	Erzsébet Márkus
– 70 kg	Sule Sahbaz	Irina Kasimova
– 76 kg			Monica Carrio
– 83 kg		Albina Khomich	Monique Riesterer
+ 83 kg			Katarina Sederholm