The 1997 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Rijeka, Croatia for the men. The women competition were held in Sevilla, Spain. It was the 76th edition of the men event, and the 10th for the women.

Medal overview

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
– 54 kg	Halil Mutlu	Sevdalin Angelov	Mikhail Shevchenko
– 59 kg	Nikolay Peshalov	Leonidas Sabanis	Stefan Georgiev
– 64 kg	Hafız Süleymanoğlu	Zoltán Farkas	Marian-Nicolae Dodita
– 70 kg	Ergün Batmaz	Zlatan Vanev	Plamen Zhelyazkov
– 76 kg	Yoto Yotov	Ingo Steinhoefel	Ruslan Savchenko
– 83 kg	Marc Huster	Dursun Sevinc	Yury Myshkovets
– 91 kg	Sunay Bulut	Oliver Caruso	Oleh Chumak
– 99 kg	Stanislav Rybalchenko	Dmitry Smirnov	Martin Tesovic
– 108 kg	Denys Hotfrid	Evgeny Chichliannikov	Viktors Ščerbatihs
+ 108 kg	Tibor Stark	Raimonds Bergmanis	Stian Grimseth

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
– 46 kg	Estefania Juan	Lyubov Averianova	Donka Mincheva
– 50 kg	Esma Can	Izabela Dragneva	Rebeca Sires Rodriguez
– 54 kg	Neli Yankova	Neshlian Demiroz	Dagmar Danekova
– 59 kg	Fatma Kabadayi	Maria Christoforidou	Josefa Perez
– 64 kg	Ioanna Chatziioannou	Erzsébet Márkus	Tatyana Tesikova
– 70 kg	Sule Sahbaz	Irina Kasimova	Ilona Dankó
– 76 kg	Aysel Özgür	Mária Takács	Monica Carrio
– 83 kg	Deriya Acikgöz	Albina Khomich	Monique Riesterer
+ 83 kg	Nurcihan Gonul	Stamatia Bontozi	Katarina Sederholm