Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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The weightlifting competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta consisted of ten weight classes, for men only. The range of each weight class was adjusted by 1-4 kg for these Games, marking the first redefinition of Olympic weightlifting weight classes since they were introduced in 1920.

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[edit] Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
56 kg
details
Turkey Halil Mutlu
Turkey (TUR)
China Zhang Xiangsen
China (CHN)
Bulgaria Sevdalin Minchev
Bulgaria (BUL)
59 kg
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China Tang Ningsheng
China (CHN)
Greece Leonidas Sampanis
Greece (GRE)
Bulgaria Nikolay Pechalov
Bulgaria (BUL)
64 kg
details
Turkey Naim Süleymanoğlu
Turkey (TUR)
Greece Valerios Leonidis
Greece (GRE)
China Xiao Jiangang
China (CHN)
70 kg
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China Zhan Xugang
China (CHN)
North Korea Kim Myong-Nam
North Korea (PRK)
Hungary Attila Feri
Hungary (HUN)
76 kg
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Cuba Pablo Lara Rodriguez
Cuba (CUB)
Bulgaria Yoto Yotov
Bulgaria (BUL)
North Korea Jon Chol-Ho
North Korea (PRK)
83 kg
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Greece Pyrros Dimas
Greece (GRE)
Germany Marc Huster
Germany (GER)
Poland Andrzej Cofalik
Poland (POL)
91 kg
details
Russia Aleksei Petrov
Russia (RUS)
Greece Leonidas Kokas
Greece (GRE)
Germany Oliver Caruso
Germany (GER)
99 kg
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Greece Kakhi Kakhiashvili
Greece (GRE)
Kazakhstan Anatoli Khrapaty
Kazakhstan (KAZ)
Ukraine Denys Gotfrid
Ukraine (UKR)
108 kg
details
Ukraine Timour Taimazov
Ukraine (UKR)
Russia Serguei Syrtsov
Russia (RUS)
Romania Nicu Vlad
Romania (ROM)
+108 kg
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Russia Andrei Chemerkin
Russia (RUS)
Germany Ronny Weller
Germany (GER)
Australia Stefan Botev
Australia (AUS)

[edit] Medal table

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

[edit] Participating nations

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


[edit] References