Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics
	54 kg
	59 kg
	64 kg
	70 kg
	76 kg
	83 kg
	91 kg
	99 kg
	108 kg
	+108 kg

The weightlifting competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta consisted of ten weight classes.^[1]

Medal summary

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg	Halil Mutlu  Turkey	Zhang Xiangsen  China	Sevdalin Minchev  Bulgaria
59 kg	Tang Lingsheng  China	Leonidas Sampanis  Greece	Nikolay Peshalov  Bulgaria
64 kg	Naim Süleymanoğlu  Turkey	Valerios Leonidis  Greece	Xiao Jiangang  China
70 kg	Zhan Xugang  China	Kim Myong-nam  North Korea	Attila Feri  Hungary
76 kg	Pablo Lara Rodriguez  Cuba	Yoto Yotov  Bulgaria	Jon Chol-ho  North Korea
83 kg	Pyrros Dimas  Greece	Marc Huster  Germany	Andrzej Cofalik  Poland
91 kg	Aleksei Petrov  Russia	Leonidas Kokas  Greece	Oliver Caruso  Germany
99 kg	Kakhi Kakhiashvili  Greece	Anatoli Khrapaty  Kazakhstan	Denys Gotfrid  Ukraine
108 kg	Timour Taimazov  Ukraine	Serguei Syrtsov  Russia	Nicu Vlad  Romania
+108 kg	Andrei Chemerkin  Russia	Ronny Weller  Germany	Stefan Botev  Australia

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Greece (GRE)	2	3	0	5
2	China (CHN)	2	1	1	4
3	Russia (RUS)	2	1	0	3
4	Turkey (TUR)	2	0	0	2
5	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
6	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	0	1
7	Germany (GER)	0	2	1	3
8	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	2	3
9	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	1	2
10	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
11	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		10	10	10	30

Participating nations

A total of 236 weightlifters from 77 nations competed at the Atlanta Games:

References

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 December 2006.
• "Official Olympic Report". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 13 April 2008.