The 2001 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Antalya, Turkey from November 4 to November 11. The men's competition in the middleweight (77 kg) division was staged on 7 November 2001.
Medalists edit
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snatch |  Plamen Zhelyazkov (BUL) |
165.0 kg |  Nader Sufyan Abbas (QAT) |
162.5 kg |  Mohammad Hossein Barkhah (IRI) |
162.5 kg |
| Clean & Jerk | Nader Sufyan Abbas (QAT) |
202.5 kg |  Oleg Perepetchenov (RUS) |
200.0 kg |  Attila Feri (HUN) |
200.0 kg |
| Total | Nader Sufyan Abbas (QAT) |
365.0 kg | Oleg Perepetchenov (RUS) |
360.0 kg | Mohammad Hossein Barkhah (IRI) |
360.0 kg |
Records edit
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch |  Khachatur Kyapanaktsyan (ARM) |
170.5 kg | Athens, Greece | 25 November 1999 |
| Clean & Jerk | Oleg Perepetchenov (RUS) |
210.0 kg | Trenčín, Slovakia | 27 April 2001 | |
| Total | Oleg Perepetchenov (RUS) |
375.0 kg | Trenčín, Slovakia | 27 April 2001 |
Results edit
| Rank | Athlete | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | ||||
 |
Nader Sufyan Abbas (QAT) |
76.36 | 157.5 | 162.5 |  |
195.0 | 202.5 | |
365.0 | ||
| |
Oleg Perepetchenov (RUS) |
76.28 | 160.0 | 4 | 200.0 | |
360.0 | ||||
 |
Mohammad Hossein Barkhah (IRI) |
76.42 | 157.5 | 162.5 | |
197.5 | 4 | 360.0 | |||
| 4 | Plamen Zhelyazkov (BUL) |
76.56 | 165.0 | |
195.0 | 5 | 360.0 | ||||
| 5 | Attila Feri (HUN) |
76.60 | 155.0 | 160.0 | 6 | 200.0 | |
360.0 | |||
| 6 |  Andrzej Kozłowski (POL) |
76.58 | 150.0 | 155.0 | 160.0 | 5 | 185.0 | 190.0 | 195.0 | 6 | 355.0 |
| 7 | Adrián Popa (HUN) |
76.34 | 147.5 | 152.5 | 155.0 | 7 | 192.5 | 7 | 347.5 | ||
| 8 |  Vasile Hegheduș (ROM) |
76.20 | 150.0 | 8 | 180.0 | 10 | 330.0 | ||||
| 9 |  Héctor Ballesteros (COL) |
76.46 | 140.0 | 145.0 | 10 | 180.0 | 185.0 | 8 | 330.0 | ||
| 10 |  Jugnevis Campos (VEN) |
76.52 | 142.5 | 147.5 | 9 | 182.5 | 9 | 330.0 | |||
| 11 |  Satheesha Rai (IND) |
76.68 | 135.0 | 140.0 | 11 | 175.0 | 180.0 | 11 | 320.0 | ||
| 12 |  José Juan Navarro (ESP) |
76.82 | 137.5 | 12 | 165.0 | 170.0 | 12 | 307.5 | |||
| 13 |  Pavel Kolosovski (ISR) |
76.02 | 120.0 | 13 | 140.0 | 150.0 | 13 | 270.0 | |||
| — |  Artan Suli (ALB) |
76.38 | — | — | — | ||||||
| DQ | Arsen Melikyan (ARM) |
76.70 | 165.0 | — | 200.0 | — | — | ||||