The 1997 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Chiang Mai, Thailand from December 6 to December 14. The men's competition in the 91 kg division was staged on 12 December 1997.
Medalists
edit| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snatch |  Tadeusz Drzazga (POL) |
177.5 kg |  Maksim Agapitov (RUS) |
175.0 kg |  Andrey Makarov (KAZ) |
170.0 kg |
| Clean & Jerk |  Julio Luna (VEN) |
212.5 kg | Maksim Agapitov (RUS) |
205.0 kg |  Oleh Chumak (UKR) |
200.0 kg |
| Total | Maksim Agapitov (RUS) |
380.0 kg | Tadeusz Drzazga (POL) |
377.5 kg | Julio Luna (VEN) |
377.5 kg |
Records
editPrior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | Aleksey Petrov (RUS) |
187.5 kg | Atlanta, United States | 27 July 1996 |
| Clean & Jerk |  Akakios Kakiasvilis (GRE) |
228.5 kg | Warsaw, Poland | 6 May 1995 | |
| Total | Aleksey Petrov (RUS) |
412.5 kg | Sokolov, Czech Republic | 7 May 1994 |
Results
edit| Rank | Athlete | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | ||||
 |
Maksim Agapitov (RUS) |
90.65 | 170.0 | 175.0 |  |
200.0 | 205.0 | |
380.0 | ||
| |
Tadeusz Drzazga (POL) |
89.40 | 167.5 | 172.5 | 177.5 | |
200.0 | 4 | 377.5 | ||
 |
Julio Luna (VEN) |
90.75 | 160.0 | 165.0 | 5 | 212.5 | |
377.5 | |||
| 4 | Andrey Makarov (KAZ) |
90.25 | 160.0 | 165.0 | 170.0 | |
190.0 | 195.0 | 200.0 | 7 | 370.0 |
| 5 |  Lars Betker (GER) |
89.95 | 157.5 | 162.5 | 165.0 | 4 | 200.0 | 6 | 365.0 | ||
| 6 | Oleh Chumak (UKR) |
88.90 | 162.5 | 6 | 200.0 | |
362.5 | ||||
| 7 |  Bünyamin Sudaş (TUR) |
89.90 | 157.5 | 162.5 | 7 | 195.0 | 200.0 | 5 | 362.5 | ||
| 8 |  Kiril Kounev (AUS) |
90.90 | 155.0 | 160.0 | 9 | 195.0 | 200.0 | 8 | 360.0 | ||
| 9 |  Qin Guang (CHN) |
87.10 | 155.0 | 160.0 | 8 | 195.0 | 9 | 355.0 | |||
| 10 |  Sergejs Lazovskis (LAT) |
90.55 | 147.5 | 152.5 | 11 | 190.0 | 195.0 | 10 | 347.5 | ||
| 11 |  Jaroslav Jokeľ (SVK) |
90.75 | 150.0 | 155.0 | 10 | 180.0 | 187.5 | 190.0 | 13 | 345.0 | |
| 12 |  Jürgen Matzku (AUT) |
90.75 | 152.5 | 12 | 190.0 | 12 | 342.5 | ||||
| 13 |  Fazilbek Urazimbetov (UZB) |
87.15 | 150.0 | 13 | 185.0 | 190.0 | 11 | 340.0 | |||
| 14 |  Khaled Korany (EGY) |
90.90 | 145.0 | 19 | 185.0 | 190.0 | 14 | 335.0 | |||
| 15 |  Leon Griffin (GBR) |
86.85 | 145.0 | 17 | 180.0 | 185.0 | 15 | 330.0 | |||
| 16 | Ulugbek Mahmudov (UZB) |
90.85 | 150.0 | 16 | 180.0 | 17 | 330.0 | ||||
| 17 | Simon Heffernan (AUS) |
89.95 | 140.0 | 145.0 | 18 | 175.0 | 180.0 | 16 | 325.0 | ||
| 18 |  Aran Boonlue (THA) |
90.20 | 130.0 | 20 | 170.0 | 175.0 | — | 18 | 305.0 | ||
| — |  Ahmed Shahbazov (AZE) |
88.90 | 150.0 | 14 | — | — | |||||
| — |  Saleh Mohammed (IRQ) |
89.95 | 150.0 | 15 | — | — | |||||
| — |  Francesco De Tommaso (ITA) |
90.10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| — |  Carlos Hernández (CUB) |
90.55 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| DQ |  Vadim Vacarciuc (MDA) |
88.85 | 165.0 | 170.0 | 175.0 | — | 207.5 | 212.5 | — | — | — |
| DQ | Sunay Bulut (TUR) |
91.00 | 167.5 | 172.5 | — | 207.5 | 210.0 | — | — | ||