2002 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 62 kg

2002 World Weightlifting
Championships
MenWomen
56 kg48 kg
62 kg53 kg
69 kg58 kg
77 kg63 kg
85 kg69 kg
94 kg75 kg
105 kg+75 kg
+105 kg
Main article: 2002 World Weightlifting Championships

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

Date Time Event
20 November 2002 10:00 Group B
17:00 Group A

Medalists

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

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

Rank Athlete Group Body weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Im Yong-su (PRK) A 61.75 135.0 135.0 140.0 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 170.0 175.0 177.5 1st place, gold medalist(s) 315.0
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Le Maosheng (CHN) A 61.50 140.0 142.5 142.5 1st place, gold medalist(s) 170.0 175.0 175.0 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 310.0
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Stefan Georgiev (BUL) A 62.00 132.5 137.5 137.5 4 172.5 175.0 175.0 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 310.0
4  Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) A 61.60 140.0 140.0 142.5 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 160.0 167.5 170.0 4 307.5
5  Oleksandr Likhvald (UKR) A 61.65 130.0 135.0 135.0 6 157.5 162.5 170.0 5 292.5
6  Diego Salazar (COL) B 61.90 127.5 132.5 132.5 5 160.0 160.0 160.0 7 292.5
7  Artur Danielyan (ARM) A 61.90 130.0 135.0 135.0 7 155.0 160.0 167.5 8 290.0
8  İsmail Atmaca (TUR) A 61.75 125.0 125.0 130.0 11 150.0 160.0 160.0 6 285.0
9  Samson Matam (FRA) A 61.80 122.5 122.5 127.5 12 152.5 157.5 165.0 9 280.0
10  Toshio Imamura (JPN) B 61.50 120.0 120.0 125.0 10 152.5 157.5 157.5 10 277.5
11  Oleg Shin (KAZ) B 61.55 125.0 125.0 127.5 9 145.0 150.0 152.5 11 277.5
12  Giuliano Cornetta (ITA) B 61.95 110.0 110.0 117.5 13 140.0 147.5 147.5 12 257.5
13  Miloš Sušanj (CRO) B 61.80 95.0 100.0 102.5 14 115.0 120.0 125.0 13 220.0
—  Su Feixiang (CHN) A 61.80 140.0 140.0 145.0 — 170.0 170.0 170.0 — —
—  Elkhan Suleymanov (AZE) A 61.90 130.0 130.0 135.0 8 150.0 — — — —

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