The Men's 96 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place on 31 July at the Tokyo International Forum. The weightlifter from Qatar won the gold, with a combined lift of 402 kg.[1][2]
| Men's 96 kg at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Tokyo International Forum | ||||||||||||
| Date | 31 July 2021 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 15 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning total | 402 kg OR | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Records edit
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World Record | Snatch |  Sohrab Moradi (IRI) |
186 kg | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 7 November 2018 | |
| Clean & Jerk |  Tian Tao (CHN) |
231 kg | Tokyo, Japan | 7 July 2019 | ||
| Total | Sohrab Moradi (IRI) |
416 kg | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 7 November 2018 | ||
| Olympic Record | Snatch | Olympic Standard | 183 kg | — | 1 November 2018 | |
| Clean & Jerk | Olympic Standard | 219 kg | — | 1 November 2018 | ||
| Total | Olympic Standard | 398 kg | — | 1 November 2018 | ||
Results edit
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Group | Body weight[3] |
Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total[4] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | ||||||
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Fares El-Bakh |  Qatar |
A | 95.70 | 173 | 177 | 177 | 217 | 225 | 225 OR | 402 OR | ||
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Keydomar Vallenilla |  Venezuela |
A | 95.00 | 172 | 175 | 177 | 177 | 210 | 210 | 387 | ||
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Anton Pliesnoi |  Georgia |
A | 96.00 | 173 | 177 | 177 | 206 | 210 | 210 | 387 | ||
| 4 | Boady Santavy |  Canada |
A | 95.40 | 173 | 178 | 178 | 200 | 208 | 208 | 386 | ||
| 5 | Chen Po-jen |  Chinese Taipei |
A | 95.85 | 171 | 176 | 176 | 200 | 205 | 205 | 381 | ||
| 6 | Bekdoolot Rasulbekov |  Kyrgyzstan |
A | 95.70 | 162 | 166 | 166 | 200 | 208 | 208 | 374 | ||
| 7 | Bartłomiej Adamus |  Poland |
A | 95.95 | 160 | 163 | 163 | 197 | 197 | 360 | |||
| 8 | Yu Dong-ju |  South Korea |
A | 92.55 | 160 | 160 | 200 | 200 | 360 | ||||
| 9 | Olfides Sáez |  Cuba |
B | 92.35 | 156 | 156 | 193 | 198 | 203 | 203 | 359 | ||
| 10 | Cyrille Tchatchet II |  Refugee Olympic Team |
B | 95.45 | 155 | 155 | 190 | 195 | 195 | 350 | |||
| 11 | Theodoros Iakovidis |  Greece |
B | 91.90 | 147 | 152 | 156 | 156 | 175 | 182 | 182 | 338 | |
| 12 | Christian Amoah |  Ghana |
B | 140 | 145 | 145 | 165 | 170 | 170 | 315 | |||
| 13 | Mohammed Hamada |  Palestine |
B | 137 | 137 | 173 | 173 | 310 | |||||
| — | Yauheni Tsikhantsou |  Belarus |
A | 95.35 | 173 | 173 | — | — | |||||
| — | Toshiki Yamamoto |  Japan |
A | 96.00 | 161 | 166 | 168 | 168 | — | — | |||
New records edit
| Clean & Jerk | 225 kg | Fares El-Bakh (QAT)
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OR |
| Total | 402 kg | OR |
References edit
- ^ "Weightlifting Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ "Schedule - Weightlifting Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympian Database. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ "Weightlifting | Men's 96kg | Group A Competition Sheet" (PDF). TOCOG. 31 July 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ "Weightlifting | Men's 96kg | Results" (PDF). TOCOG. 31 July 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2022.