Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics

15 sets of medals were awarded in the following events:

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	1	4
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	Egypt	0	1	1	2
	Russia	0	1	1	2
	South Korea	0	1	1	2
	Thailand	0	1	1	2
13	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
	Colombia	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
16	Cameroon	0	0	1	1
	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	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 nations)		15	14	14	43

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

• ^{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 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 after they tested 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]
• ^{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]

• Stripped results marked in pink background.

Women

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Weight	Record	Day
Olympics – Women's 53 kg	29 July	Clean and jerk	Zulfiya Chinshanlo	Kazakhstan	131 kg	WR	2
Olympics – Women's 53 kg	29 July	Total	Zulfiya Chinshanlo	Kazakhstan	226 kg	OR	2
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 63 kg	31 July	Total	Maiya Maneza	Kazakhstan	245 kg	OR	4
Olympics – Women's 75 kg	3 August	Snatch	Natalia Zabolotnaya	Russia	131 kg	OR	7
Olympics – Women's 75 kg	3 August	Clean & Jerk	Svetlana Podobedova	Kazakhstan	161 kg	OR	7
Olympics – Women's 75 kg	3 August	Total	Natalia Zabolotnaya	Russia	291 kg	OR	7
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

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• "Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics (London2012.com)". Archived from the original on 28 February 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2018.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics
• Results by Events. International Weightlifting Federation
• Official results book – Weightlifting