Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics
	54 kg
	59 kg
	64 kg
	70 kg
	76 kg
	83 kg
	91 kg
	99 kg
	108 kg
	+108 kg
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The weightlifting competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta consisted of ten weight classes.^[1]

Medal summary[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg details	Halil Mutlu  Turkey	Zhang Xiangsen  China	Sevdalin Minchev  Bulgaria
59 kg details	Tang Lingsheng  China	Leonidas Sampanis  Greece	Nikolay Peshalov  Bulgaria
64 kg details	Naim Süleymanoğlu  Turkey	Valerios Leonidis  Greece	Xiao Jiangang  China
70 kg details	Zhan Xugang  China	Kim Myong-nam  North Korea	Attila Feri  Hungary
76 kg details	Pablo Lara Rodriguez  Cuba	Yoto Yotov  Bulgaria	Jon Chol-ho  North Korea
83 kg details	Pyrros Dimas  Greece	Marc Huster  Germany	Andrzej Cofalik  Poland
91 kg details	Aleksei Petrov  Russia	Leonidas Kokas  Greece	Oliver Caruso  Germany
99 kg details	Kakhi Kakhiashvili  Greece	Anatoli Khrapaty  Kazakhstan	Denys Gotfrid  Ukraine
108 kg details	Timour Taimazov  Ukraine	Serguei Syrtsov  Russia	Nicu Vlad  Romania
+108 kg details	Andrei Chemerkin  Russia	Ronny Weller  Germany	Stefan Botev  Australia

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Greece (GRE)	2	3	0	5
2	China (CHN)	2	1	1	4
3	Russia (RUS)	2	1	0	3
4	Turkey (TUR)	2	0	0	2
5	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
6	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	0	1
7	Germany (GER)	0	2	1	3
8	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	2	3
9	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	1	2
10	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
11	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		10	10	10	30

Participating nations[]

A total of 236 weightlifters from 77 nations competed at the Atlanta Games:

References[]

Sources[]

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 December 2006.
• "Official Olympic Report". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 13 April 2008.