Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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| Venue | Riocentro – Pavilion 2 |
| Dates | 6–16 August 2016 |
| No. of events | 15 |
| Competitors | 260 from 94 nations |
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| 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 | ||||
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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.
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Events
15 sets of medals were awarded in the following events:
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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
| Q | Qualification | F | Final |
| Date → | Sat 6 | Sun 7 | Mon 8 | Tue 9 | Wed 10 | Thu 11 | Fri 12 | Sat 13 | Sun 14 | Mon 15 | Tue 16 | |||||||||||||
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| Event ↓ | E | M | A | E | M | A | E | M | A | E | M | A | E | M | A | E | A | E | E | A | E | A | E | |
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| Men's 56 kg | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's 62 kg | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's 69 kg | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's 77 kg | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's 85 kg | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's 94 kg | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's 105 kg | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Men's +105 kg | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Women's | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Women's 48 kg | F | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Women's 53 kg | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Women's 58 kg | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Women's 63 kg | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Women's 69 kg | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Women's 75 kg | Q | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Women's +75 kg | F | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Qualification
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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
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Albania (2)
Algeria (2)
American Samoa (1)
Argentina (1)
Armenia (7)
Australia (2)
Austria (1)
Belarus (8)
Belgium (1)
Brazil (5)
Cameroon (2)
Canada (2)
Chile (2)
China (10)
Colombia (9)
Cook Islands (1)
Croatia (1)
Cuba (2)
Cyprus (1)
Czech Republic (1)
Dominican Republic (3)
Ecuador (3)
El Salvador (1)
Estonia (1)
Egypt (9)
Fiji (2)
Finland (2)
France (5)
Georgia (4)
Germany (5)
Ghana (1)
Great Britain (2)
Greece (1)
Guatemala (1)
Haiti (1)- 23x15px Honduras (1)
Hungary (1)
India (2)
Indonesia (7)
Iran (5)
Iraq (1)
Israel (1)
Italy (2)
Japan (7)
Kazakhstan (8)
Kenya (1)
Kiribati (1)
Kyrgyzstan (2)
Latvia (2)
Lithuania (1)
Madagascar (1)
Malaysia (1)
Malta (1)
Marshall Islands (1)
Mauritius (1)
Mexico (4)
Moldova (3)
Mongolia (2)
Morocco (2)
Nauru (1)
New Zealand (2)
Nicaragua (1)
Nigeria (1)
North Korea (8)
Papua New Guinea (1)
Peru (2)
Philippines (2)
Poland (5)
Puerto Rico (1)
Qatar (1)
Romania (4)
Samoa (2)
Saudi Arabia (1)
Serbia (1)
Seychelles (1)
Slovakia (1)
Solomon Islands (1)
South Korea (7)
Spain (4)
Sri Lanka (1)
Sweden (1)
Syria (1)
Chinese Taipei (7)
Thailand (9)
Tunisia (2)
Turkey (4)
Turkmenistan (2)
Ukraine (8)
United Arab Emirates (1)
United States (4)
Uruguay (1)
Uzbekistan (5)
Venezuela (4)
Vietnam (4)
Competitors
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Medal summary
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 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 | 15 | 45 | |
Olympic records broken
Five Olympic records were broken.[6]
Men's events
- 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 of 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
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
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- ↑ CAS AD 16/07 International Olympic Committee v. Izzat Artykov
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