Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 105 kg

Men's 105 kg at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beihang University Gymnasium
Date	18 August
Competitors	20 from 16 nations
Medalists
Andrei Aramnau  Belarus Dmitry Klokov  Russia Dmitry Lapikov  Russia

Weightlifting at the 2008 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

The men's 105 kg weightlifting event was the seventh men's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 105 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took place on August 18, but was divided in two parts due to the number of competitors. Group B weightlifters competed at 15:30, and Group A, at 19:00. This event was the fourteenth Weightlifting event to conclude.

Each lifter performed in both the snatch and clean and jerk lifts, with the final score being the sum of the lifter's best result in each. The athlete received three attempts in each of the two lifts; the score for the lift was the heaviest weight successfully lifted.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Date	Time	Event
18 August 2008	15:30	Group B
	19:00	Group A

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Snatch	Marcin Dołęga (POL)	199 kg	Władysławowo, Poland	7 May 2006
	Clean & Jerk	Denys Hotfrid (UKR)	235 kg	Athens, Greece	28 November 1999
	Total	Denys Hotfrid (UKR)	430 kg	Athens, Greece	28 November 1999
Olympic record	Snatch	Dmitry Berestov (RUS)	195 kg	Athens, Greece	24 August 2004
	Clean & Jerk	Olympic Standard	235 kg	—	1 January 1997
	Total	Olympic Standard	427 kg	—	1 January 1997

Results

Rank	Athlete	Group	Body weight	Snatch (kg)				Clean & Jerk (kg)				Total
				1	2	3	Result	1	2	3	Result
	Andrei Aramnau (BLR)	A	104.76	193	197	200	200	225	230	236	236	436
	Dmitry Klokov (RUS)	A	104.72	185	190	193	193	222	226	230	230	423
	Dmitry Lapikov (RUS)	A	104.30	190	195	195	190	222	226	230	230	420
4	Marcin Dołęga (POL)	A	104.37	195	200	201	195	225	228	228	225	420
5	Bakhyt Akhmetov (KAZ)	A	102.13	185	190	195	190	221	225	230	225	415
6	Albert Kuzilov (GEO)	A	102.48	178	182	182	182	220	227	228	227	409
7	Sergey Istomin (KAZ)	A	102.03	181	181	187	181	215	220	225	225	406
8	Robert Dołęga (POL)	A	104.27	178	181	184	184	217	221	221	221	405
9	Nikolaos Kourtidis (GRE)	B	103.36	171	176	176	176	210	215	221	221	397
10	Mohsen Beiranvand (IRI)	B	104.34	180	180	184	180	210	210	216	210	390
11	Oleksiy Torokhtiy (UKR)	B	104.64	172	177	181	177	213	220	220	213	390
12	Ahed Joughili (SYR)	B	104.90	170	170	175	170	215	215	216	216	386
13	Abdelrahman El-Sayed (EGY)	B	104.84	172	175	178	175	210	216	216	210	385
14	Bünyamin Sudaş (TUR)	B	104.39	163	166	166	166	202	207	210	207	373
15	Libor Wälzer (CZE)	B	104.64	158	163	166	163	187	187	193	187	350
16	Christian López (GUA)	B	103.76	150	155	155	150	180	186	186	186	336
17	Moreno Boer (ITA)	B	104.45	150	150	150	150	180	185	185	180	330
—	Ramūnas Vyšniauskas (LTU)	A	104.18	180	180	183	180	220	—	—	—	—
—	Martin Tešovič (SVK)	B	104.47	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
DQ	Ihor Razoronov (UKR)	A	104.58	185	185	187	—	223	234	234	—	—

• Ihor Razoronov of Ukraine originally finished sixth, but was disqualified after he tested positive for nandrolone.

New records

Snatch	197 kg	Andrei Aramnau (BLR)	OR
Snatch	200 kg	Andrei Aramnau (BLR)	WR
Total	430 kg	Andrei Aramnau (BLR)	OR
Clean & Jerk	236 kg	Andrei Aramnau (BLR)	WR
Total	436 kg	Andrei Aramnau (BLR)	WR

References

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