Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Riocentro – Pavilion 2
Dates	6–16 August 2016
No. of events	15
Competitors	260 from 94 nations

Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Qualification
List of weightlifters
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

Weightlifting competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 16 August at the Pavilion 2 of Riocentro. Around 260 athletes (156 men and 104 women) competed in 15 different events according to their respective weight categories.^[1] Bulgaria^[2] and Russia^[3] were banned from participating in the sport due to multiple doping cases.

Events

15 sets of medals were awarded in the following events:

Competition schedule

There were at most three sessions of competition on each day of the 2016 Olympics Weightlifting program:

• Morning session: 10:00–14:00 BRT
• Afternoon session: 15:30–17:30 BRT
• Evening session: 19:00–21:00 BRT

Qualification

Similar to 2012 format, a total of 260 athletes qualified through a combination of team and individual spots. Host nation Brazil had already guaranteed three automatic places for men and two for women, while ten spots (six for men and four for women) were entitled to the athletes through the Tripartite Commission Invitation, leaving the remaining berths up for grabs in both the men's and women's competitions respectively.^[4][5]

Participation

Participating nations

Competitors

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	5	2	0	7
2	Thailand	2	1	1	4
3	Iran	2	0	0	2
4	North Korea	1	3	0	4
5	Kazakhstan	1	1	4	6
6	Chinese Taipei	1	0	1	2
	Colombia	1	0	1	2
	Georgia	1	0	1	2
9	Uzbekistan	1	0	0	1
10	Armenia	0	2	0	2
	Belarus	0	2	0	2
	Indonesia	0	2	0	2
13	Philippines	0	1	0	1
	Turkey	0	1	0	1
15	Egypt	0	0	2	2
16	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Total 21 NOCs		15	15	14	44

Olympic records broken

Five Olympic records were broken.^[6]

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg	Long Qingquan  China WR	Om Yun-chol  North Korea	Sinphet Kruaithong  Thailand
62 kg	Óscar Figueroa  Colombia	Eko Yuli Irawan  Indonesia	Farkhad Kharki  Kazakhstan
69 kg [a]	Shi Zhiyong  China	Daniyar Ismayilov  Turkey	Luis Javier Mosquera  Colombia
77 kg	Nijat Rahimov  Kazakhstan WR	Lü Xiaojun  China WR	Mohamed Ihab  Egypt
85 kg [b]	Kianoush Rostami  Iran WR OR	Tian Tao  China OR	Denis Ulanov  Kazakhstan
94 kg	Sohrab Moradi  Iran	Vadzim Straltsou  Belarus	Aurimas Didžbalis  Lithuania
105 kg	Ruslan Nurudinov  Uzbekistan OR	Simon Martirosyan  Armenia	Aleksandr Zaychikov  Kazakhstan
+105 kg	Lasha Talakhadze  Georgia WR OR	Gor Minasyan  Armenia	Irakli Turmanidze  Georgia

• ^{Men's 69kg} On 18 August 2016, Kyrgyz weightlifter Izzat Artykov was stripped of his bronze medal in the men's 69 kg event after testing positive for strychnine. Luis Javier Mosquera of Colombia, who had been the fourth-place finisher before Artykov's disqualification, was moved into third place.^[7][8]
• ^{Men's 85kg} On 8 December 2016, the Court of Arbitration for Sport stated that original bronze medalist Gabriel Sincraian,  Romania, was found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation after testing positive for exogenous Testosterone, a non-specified substance prohibited under S1.1b on the WADA prohibited list, during an in-competition doping control on 12 August 2016. All results obtained by Sincraian in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games were disqualified.^[9]

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Sopita Tanasan  Thailand	Sri Wahyuni Agustiani  Indonesia	Hiromi Miyake  Japan
53 kg	Hsu Shu-ching  Chinese Taipei	Hidilyn Diaz  Philippines	Yoon Jin-hee  South Korea
58 kg	Sukanya Srisurat  Thailand OR	Pimsiri Sirikaew  Thailand	Kuo Hsing-chun  Chinese Taipei
63 kg	Deng Wei  China WR	Choe Hyo-sim  North Korea	Karina Goricheva  Kazakhstan
69 kg	Xiang Yanmei  China	Zhazira Zhapparkul  Kazakhstan	Sara Ahmed  Egypt
75 kg	Rim Jong-sim  North Korea	Darya Naumava  Belarus	Lidia Valentín  Spain
+75 kg	Meng Suping  China	Kim Kuk-hyang  North Korea	Sarah Robles  United States

See also

• Weightlifting at the 2014 Asian Games
• Weightlifting at the 2015 Pan American Games
• Weightlifting at the 2015 African Games
• Weightlifting at the 2015 Pacific Games
• Powerlifting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

References