Weightlifting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Weightlifting at the III Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Parque Polideportivo Roca
Dates	7–13 October
No. of events	12 (6 boys, 6 girls)
Competitors	102 from 63 nations
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Weightlifting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
	Men	Women
	56 kg	44 kg
	62 kg	48 kg
	69 kg	53 kg
	77 kg	58 kg
	85 kg	63 kg
	+85 kg	+63 kg
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Weightlifting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 7 to 13 October. The events took place at Parque Polideportivo Roca in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Qualification[]

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 4 competitors, 2 per each gender. As hosts, Argentina was guaranteed two quotas, 1 athlete per gender and a further 10 boys and 10 girls was to be decided by the Tripartite Commission. However only 9 girls were selected. The remaining 88 places shall be decided by team classification results from qualification events, namely the 2017 World Youth Championships and five continental qualification tournaments.^[1]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2003. Furthermore, NOCs will only be allowed to enter a single athlete in an event and the chosen athlete must have participated in either the 2017 World Youth Championships or a continental championship in 2017 or 2018.^[1]

Boys[]

Event	Location	Date	Quotas	Qualified
Host nation	-	-	1	Argentina
2017 World Youth Championships[2]	Bangkok	3–10 April 2017	2	China[a]  Kazakhstan[a]  Iran  Turkey[a]  Russia[a]  Thailand
			1	United States*  Uzbekistan  Azerbaijan[a]  Ukraine[a]  Indonesia  Bulgaria  Colombia  Chinese Taipei  Armenia[a]  Venezuela  Italy
2018 African Youth Championships[3]	Sharm El Sheikh	23–30 March 2018	1	Egypt  Algeria  Libya  South Africa
2018 Asian Youth Championships[4]	Urgench	20–30 April 2018	1	Turkmenistan  India  Saudi Arabia  Kyrgyzstan
2018 Pan American Youth Championships[5]	Palmira	3–10 June 2018	1	Mexico  Ecuador  Peru  Puerto Rico
2018 Oceania Youth Championships[6]	Mont Dore	22–30 June 2018	1	Australia  Nauru  New Zealand  Kiribati
2018 European Youth Championships[7]	Lignano Sabbiadoro	22–29 July 2018	1	Georgia  Romania  Czech Republic  Poland
Tripartite Invitation[8]	-	-	1	Cameroon  Equatorial Guinea  Kiribati  Kosovo  Marshall Islands  Nepal  Pakistan  Saudi Arabia  Turkmenistan  Uganda
Reallocation			1	Albania  Chile  Hungary  Greece  Lithuania  Madagascar  Mauritius  Netherlands  Panama  Slovakia  Spain  United Arab Emirates  Vietnam
Total			49

Girls[]

Event	Location	Date	Quotas	Qualified
Host nation	-	-	1	Argentina
2017 World Youth Championships[9]	Bangkok	3–10 April 2017	2	China[a]  Kazakhstan[a]  Uzbekistan  Romania  Colombia  Turkey[a]  Thailand
			1	Mexico  United States  Ukraine[a]  Venezuela  Russia[a]  North Korea  Vietnam  Ecuador  Indonesia  Italy
2018 African Youth Championships[10]	Sharm El Sheikh	23–30 March 2018	1	Egypt  Algeria  Tunisia  Ghana
2018 Asian Youth Championships[11]	Urgench	20–30 April 2018	1	Japan  Chinese Taipei  India  Mongolia
2018 Pan American Youth Championships[12]	Palmira	3–10 June 2018	1	Peru  Dominican Republic  Guatemala  Puerto Rico
2018 Oceania Youth Championships[13]	Mont Dore	22–30 June 2018	1	Nauru  Australia  New Zealand  Samoa
2018 European Youth Championships[14]	Lignano Sabbiadoro	22–29 July 2018	1	Bulgaria  Poland  Spain  Hungary
Tripartite Invitation[8]	-	-	1	Bahrain  Fiji  Madagascar  Malta  Mauritius  Nauru  Nicaragua  Samoa  Solomon Islands
Reallocation			1	Armenia  Azerbaijan  Chile  Croatia  Great Britain  Greece  Latvia  Nigeria  Turkmenistan  United Arab Emirates
Total			53

^a Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine handed one-year ban from IWF for doping violations.^[15] Afterwards IWF lifted doping suspensions against Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan.^[16]

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey	2	1	1	4
2	Uzbekistan	1	2	0	3
3	Vietnam	1	1	0	2
4	Mexico	1	0	1	2
	Romania	1	0	1	2
6	Armenia	1	0	0	1
	India	1	0	0	1
	Iran	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
	Tunisia	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
12	Colombia	0	2	1	3
13	Thailand	0	2	0	2
14	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
	Egypt	0	1	1	2
16	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
	Georgia	0	1	0	1
18	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 nations)		12	12	12	36

Boy's events[]

Boys' 56 kg podium

Boys' 62 kg podium

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details	Vietnam	Thailand	Czech Republic
62 kg details	Jeremy Lalrinnunga  India	Caner Toptaş  Turkey	Colombia
69 kg details	Muhammed Furkan Özbek  Turkey	Georgia	Mexico
77 kg details	Karen Margaryan  Armenia	Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov  Uzbekistan	Egypt
85 kg details	Cristiano Ficco  Italy	Tarmenkhan Babayev  Azerbaijan	Saudi Arabia
+85 kg details	Alireza Yousefi  Iran	Hristo Hristov  Bulgaria	Enzo Kuworge  Netherlands

Girl's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
44 kg details	Venezuela	Vietnam	Turkey
48 kg details	Mexico	Colombia	Mihaela Cambei  Romania
53 kg details	Sabina Baltag  Romania	Colombia	Indonesia
58 kg details	Ghofrane Belkhir  Tunisia	Neama Said Fahmi Said  Egypt	United States
63 kg details	Kumushkhon Fayzullaeva  Uzbekistan	Thailand	Galya Shatova  Bulgaria
+63 kg details [a]	Dilara Narin  Turkey	Dolera Davronova  Uzbekistan	Kanah Andrews-Nahu  New Zealand

Notes[]

• ^{Girls' +63 kg} of Thailand originally won the gold medal, but was disqualified in 2019 after testing positive for a banned substance.^[17]

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  44 kg victory ceremony

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  48 kg victory ceremony

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  53 kg victory ceremony

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  63 kg victory ceremony

References[]

External links[]

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