The 2002 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Warsaw, Poland from 19 November to 26 November. The men's 62 kilograms division was staged on 20 November 2002.
Schedule edit
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 20 November 2002 | 10:00 | Group B |
| 17:00 | Group A |
Medalists edit
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snatch |  Le Maosheng (CHN) |
140.0 kg |  Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) |
140.0 kg |  Im Yong-su (PRK) |
140.0 kg |
| Clean & Jerk | Im Yong-su (PRK) |
175.0 kg |  Stefan Georgiev (BUL) |
172.5 kg | Le Maosheng (CHN) |
170.0 kg |
| Total | Im Yong-su (PRK) |
315.0 kg | Le Maosheng (CHN) |
310.0 kg | Stefan Georgiev (BUL) |
310.0 kg |
Records edit
Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch | Shi Zhiyong (CHN) |
153.0 kg | İzmir, Turkey | 28 June 2002 |
| Clean & Jerk | Le Maosheng (CHN) |
182.5 kg | Busan, South Korea | 2 October 2002 | |
| Total | World Standard | 325.0 kg | — | 1 January 1998 |
Results edit
| Rank | Athlete | Group | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
 |
Im Yong-su (PRK) |
A | 61.75 | 135.0 | 140.0 |  |
170.0 | 175.0 | |
315.0 | ||
 |
Le Maosheng (CHN) |
A | 61.50 | 140.0 | |
170.0 | |
310.0 | ||||
| |
Stefan Georgiev (BUL) |
A | 62.00 | 132.5 | 137.5 | 4 | 172.5 | |
310.0 | |||
| 4 | Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) |
A | 61.60 | 140.0 | |
160.0 | 167.5 | 4 | 307.5 | |||
| 5 |  Oleksandr Likhvald (UKR) |
A | 61.65 | 130.0 | 6 | 157.5 | 162.5 | 5 | 292.5 | |||
| 6 |  Diego Salazar (COL) |
B | 61.90 | 127.5 | 132.5 | 5 | 160.0 | 7 | 292.5 | |||
| 7 |  Artur Danielyan (ARM) |
A | 61.90 | 130.0 | 7 | 155.0 | 160.0 | 8 | 290.0 | |||
| 8 |  İsmail Atmaca (TUR) |
A | 61.75 | 125.0 | 11 | 150.0 | 160.0 | 6 | 285.0 | |||
| 9 |  Samson Matam (FRA) |
A | 61.80 | 122.5 | 127.5 | 12 | 152.5 | 157.5 | 9 | 280.0 | ||
| 10 |  Toshio Imamura (JPN) |
B | 61.50 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 10 | 152.5 | 10 | 277.5 | |||
| 11 |  Oleg Shin (KAZ) |
B | 61.55 | 125.0 | 127.5 | 9 | 145.0 | 150.0 | 11 | 277.5 | ||
| 12 |  Giuliano Cornetta (ITA) |
B | 61.95 | 110.0 | 117.5 | 13 | 140.0 | 12 | 257.5 | |||
| 13 |  Miloš Sušanj (CRO) |
B | 61.80 | 95.0 | 100.0 | 14 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 13 | 220.0 | ||
| — | Su Feixiang (CHN) |
A | 61.80 | — | — | — | ||||||
| — |  Elkhan Suleymanov (AZE) |
A | 61.90 | 130.0 | 8 | — | — | — | — | |||
References edit
- Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics, Page 40 Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Results Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine