Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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

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

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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Greece	2	3	0	5
2	China	2	1	1	4
3	Russia	2	1	0	3
4	Turkey	2	0	0	2
5	Ukraine	1	0	1	2
6	Cuba	1	0	0	1
7	Germany	0	2	1	3
8	Bulgaria	0	1	2	3
9	North Korea	0	1	1	2
10	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
11	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		10	10	10	30

Participating nations

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

Albania (1)  Algeria (3)  American Samoa (1)  Argentina (3)  Armenia (10)  Aruba (1)  Australia (7)  Azerbaijan (2)  Belarus (10)  Brazil (1)  Bulgaria (10)  Cameroon (1)  Canada (2)  Chile (1)  China (10)  Chinese Taipei (4)  Colombia (5)  Cook Islands (1)  Cuba (5)  Czech Republic (2)

Dominican Republic (1)  Egypt (1)  El Salvador (1)  Fiji (1)  Finland (2)  France (2)  Georgia (2)  Germany (10)  Great Britain (1)  Greece (10)  Guatemala (1)  Hungary (7)  India (5)  Indonesia (1)  Iraq (1)  Israel (1)  Italy (2)  Japan (7)  Kazakhstan (7)

Kenya (1)  North Korea (2)  South Korea (7)  Kuwait (1)  Latvia (5)  Lithuania (1)  Mauritius (2)  Moldova (5)  Morocco (1)  Nauru (3)  Nepal (1)  Nigeria (1)  Norway (1)  Panama (1)  Papua New Guinea (1)  Poland (5)  Portugal (1)  Puerto Rico (1)  Romania (5)

Russia (9)  Samoa (1)  Saudi Arabia (1)  Seychelles (1)  Slovakia (3)  Solomon Islands (1)  Spain (1)  Sweden (2)  Syria (1)  Thailand (1)  Tonga (1)  Turkey (10)  Uganda (1)  Ukraine (7)  United States (10)  Uruguay (1)  Uzbekistan (5)  Venezuela (1)  FR Yugoslavia (1)

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 December 2006.
• "Official Olympic Report". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 12 June 2007. Retrieved 13 April 2008.