Weightlifting at the Games of the XXX Olympiad

Venue	ExCeL London
Dates	28 July - 7 August 2012
Competitors	260
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Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics

	Men	Women
	56 kg	48 kg
	62 kg	53 kg
	69 kg	58 kg
	77 kg	63 kg
	85 kg	69 kg
	94 kg	75 kg
	105 kg	+75 kg
	+105 kg
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Weightlifting competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London were held from 28 July to 7 August in the ExCeL venue. Fifteen gold medals were awarded and 260 athletes took part (156 men and 104 women).^[1]

Events

15 sets of medals were awarded in the following events:

56 kg Men
62 kg Men
69 kg Men
77 kg Men
85 kg Men
94 kg Men
105 kg Men
+105 kg Men

48 kg Women
53 kg Women
58 kg Women
63 kg Women
69 kg Women
75 kg Women
+75 kg Women

Qualification

Further information: Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Medal summary

The results of the 2012 Olympic weightlifting competition have been significantly revised after doping was uncovered through retests of samples from these Games.

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	5	2	0	7
2	Iran	3	2	0	5
3	North Korea	3	0	2	5
4	Poland	1	1	1	3
5	Canada	1	0	0	1
	Chinese Taipei	1	0	0	1
	Spain	1	0	0	1
8	Indonesia	0	2	1	3
9	Colombia	0	1	1	2
	Egypt	0	1	1	2
	Russia	0	1	1	2
	South Korea	0	1	1	2
	Thailand	0	1	1	2
14	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
17	Cameroon	0	0	1	1
	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
	Vietnam	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		15	15	15	45

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details ^[a]	Om Yun-chol North Korea	Wu Jingbiao China	Trần Lê Quốc Toàn Vietnam
62 kg details	Kim Un-guk North Korea	Óscar Figueroa Colombia	Eko Yuli Irawan Indonesia
69 kg details ^[b]	Lin Qingfeng China	Triyatno Indonesia	Kim Myong-hyok North Korea
77 kg details	Lü Xiaojun China	Lu Haojie China	Iván Cambar Cuba
85 kg details ^[c]	Adrian Zieliński Poland	Kianoush Rostami Iran	Tarek Yehia Egypt
94 kg details ^[d]	Saeid Mohammadpour Iran	Kim Min-jae South Korea	Tomasz Zieliński Poland
105 kg details ^[e]	Navab Nassirshalal Iran	Bartłomiej Bonk Poland	Ivan Efremov Uzbekistan
+105 kg details	Behdad Salimi Iran	Sajjad Anoushiravani Iran	Ruslan Albegov Russia

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Wang Mingjuan China	Hiromi Miyake Japan	Ryang Chun-hwa North Korea
53 kg details ^[f]	Hsu Shu-ching Chinese Taipei	Citra Febrianti Indonesia	Iulia Paratova Ukraine
58 kg details ^[g]	Li Xueying China	Pimsiri Sirikaew Thailand	Rattikan Gulnoi Thailand
63 kg details ^[h]	Christine Girard Canada	Milka Maneva Bulgaria	Luz Acosta Mexico
69 kg details ^[i]	Rim Jong-sim North Korea	Anna Nurmukhambetova Kazakhstan	Ubaldina Valoyes Colombia
75 kg details ^[j]	Lydia Valentín Spain	Abeer Abdelrahman Egypt	Madias Nzesso Cameroon
+75 kg details ^[k]	Zhou Lulu China	Tatiana Kashirina Russia	Jang Mi-ran South Korea

Notes

^{Men's 56 kg} Valentin Hristov of Azerbaijan originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2019 after testing positive for steroids.^[2]^[3]
^{Men's 69 kg} Răzvan Martin of Romania originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2020 after a retest of his 2012 sample tested positive for steroids.^[4]
^{Men's 85 kg} Apti Aukhadov of Russia originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a retest of his 2012 sample tested positive for steroids.^[5]
^{Men's 94 kg} Ilya Ilyin of Kazakhstan, Aleksandr Ivanov of Russia, and Anatolie Cîrîcu of Moldova originally won the gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively, but were all disqualified in 2016 after retests of their 2012 samples were positive for steroids. Fourth-placed Andrey Demanov of Russia, sixth-placed Intigam Zairov of Azerbaijan, and seventh-placed Almas Uteshov of Kazakhstan were also disqualified for the same reason.^[6]^[7]^[8]
^{Men's 105 kg} Oleksiy Torokhtiy of Ukraine originally won the gold medal, and Ruslan Nurudinov of Uzbekistan originally finished fourth, but were both disqualified as retests of their 2012 samples were positive for performance-enhancing drugs.^[9]^[10]^[3]
^{Women's 53 kg} Zulfiya Chinshanlo of Kazakhstan and Cristina Iovu of Moldova originally won the gold and bronze medals respectively, but were both disqualified in 2016 after testing positive for steroids.^[7]^[11]
^{Women's 58 kg} Yuliya Kalina of Ukraine originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a retest of her 2012 sample tested positive for steroids.^[12]
^{Women's 63 kg} Maiya Maneza of Kazakhstan originally won the gold medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a retest of her 2012 sample tested positive for stanozolol.^[11] Fourth-placed Sibel Şimşek of Turkey was also disqualified for the same reason.^[8] On 5 April 2017, original silver medalist Svetlana Tsarukaeva of Russia was also disqualified for the same reason.^[13]
^{Women's 69 kg} Maryna Shkermankova of Belarus originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a retest of her 2012 sample was positive for steroids.^[11] Fourth-placed Dzina Sazanavets of Belarus was also disqualified for the same reason.^[11] Roxana Cocoș of Romania originally won the silver medal, but was disqualified in 2020 after a failed retest of her sample from 2012 tested positive for steroids.^[4]^[14]
^{Women's 75 kg} Svetlana Podobedova of Kazakhstan, Natalya Zabolotnaya of Russia, and Iryna Kulesha of Belarus originally won the gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively, but were all disqualified in 2016 after retests of their 2012 samples were positive for steroids.^[7]^[11]
^{Women's +75 kg} Hripsime Khurshudyan of Armenia originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified in 2016 after a retest of her 2012 sample was positive for steroids.^[7]

Olympic and world records broken

Women

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Weight	Record	Day
Olympics – Women's 58 kg	30 July	Snatch	Li Xueying	China	108 kg	OR	3
Olympics – Women's 58 kg	30 July	Total	Li Xueying	China	246 kg	OR	3
Olympics – Women's +75 kg	5 August	Snatch	Tatiana Kashirina	Russia	151 kg	WR	9
Olympics – Women's +75 kg	5 August	Clean & Jerk	Zhou Lulu	China	187 kg	OR	9
Olympics – Women's +75 kg	5 August	Total	Zhou Lulu	China	333 kg	WR	9

Men

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Weight	Record	Day
Olympics – Men's 56 kg	29 July	Clean and jerk	Om Yun-Chol	North Korea	168 kg	OR	2
Olympics – Men's 62 kg	30 July	Snatch	Kim Un-Guk	North Korea	153 kg	OR	3
Olympics – Men's 62 kg	30 July	Total	Kim Un-Guk	North Korea	327 kg	WR	3
Olympics – Men's 62 kg	30 July	Clean and jerk	Óscar Figueroa	Colombia	177 kg	OR	3
Olympics – Men's 77 kg	1 August	Snatch	Lü Xiaojun	China	175 kg	WR	5
Olympics – Men's 77 kg	1 August	Total	Lü Xiaojun	China	379 kg	WR	5

References

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