The 2002 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Warsaw, Poland from 19 November to 26 November. The men's 56 kilograms division was staged on 19 November 2002.
Schedule edit
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 19 November 2002 | 14:00 | Group B |
| 20:00 | Group A |
Medalists edit
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snatch |  Wu Meijin (CHN) |
127.5 kg |  Yang Chin-yi (TPE) |
125.0 kg |  Adrian Jigău (ROM) |
125.0 kg |
| Clean & Jerk | Wu Meijin (CHN) |
160.0 kg | Wang Shin-yuan (TPE) |
152.5 kg | Yang Chin-yi (TPE) |
152.5 kg |
| Total | Wu Meijin (CHN) |
287.5 kg | Yang Chin-yi (TPE) |
277.5 kg | Adrian Jigău (ROM) |
277.5 kg |
Records edit
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch |  Halil Mutlu (TUR) |
138.5 kg | Antalya, Turkey | 4 November 2001 |
| Clean & Jerk | Halil Mutlu (TUR) |
168.0 kg | Trenčín, Slovakia | 24 April 2001 | |
| Total | Halil Mutlu (TUR) |
305.0 kg | Sydney, Australia | 16 September 2000 |
Results edit
| Rank | Athlete | Group | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
 |
Wu Meijin (CHN) |
A | 55.50 | 122.5 | 127.5 | |
155.0 | 160.0 | |
287.5 | ||
 |
Yang Chin-yi (TPE) |
A | 55.60 | 125.0 | |
152.5 |  |
277.5 | ||||
| |
Adrian Jigău (ROM) |
A | 55.70 | 120.0 | 125.0 | |
145.0 | 150.0 | 152.5 | 4 | 277.5 | |
| 4 | Wang Shin-yuan (TPE) |
A | 55.45 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 6 | 152.5 | |
272.5 | |||
| 5 |  László Tancsics (HUN) |
A | 55.25 | 120.0 | 5 | 145.0 | 5 | 265.0 | ||||
| 6 |  Éric Bonnel (FRA) |
A | 55.85 | 105.0 | 110.0 | 112.5 | 7 | 132.5 | 137.5 | 6 | 250.0 | |
| 7 |  Theocharis Chatzidis (GRE) |
B | 55.85 | 100.0 | 105.0 | 107.5 | 8 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 135.0 | 7 | 242.5 |
| 8 |  Yasunobu Sekikawa (JPN) |
A | 55.70 | 105.0 | 9 | 120.0 | 9 | 225.0 | ||||
| 9 |  Iván Hernández (ESP) |
B | 55.05 | 92.5 | 97.5 | 11 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 8 | 217.5 | ||
| — |  Sanjar Kadyrbergenow (TKM) |
B | 55.55 | 95.0 | 100.0 | 10 | — | — | ||||
| — |  Vitali Dzerbianiou (BLR) |
A | 55.80 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 4 | — | — | ||||
References edit
- Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics, Page 39 Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Results Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine