Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting; at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia World Congress Center
Dates	20–30 July 1996
Competitors	243 from 77 nations

The weightlifting competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta consisted of ten weight classes.[1]

Medal summary

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


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

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

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