Weightlifting at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, fifteen events in weightlifting were contested, in eight classes for men and seven for women. Competition was held in the Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall.^[1]

Weightlifting at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall
Dates	14–25 August 2004
No. of events	15
Competitors	249 from 79 nations
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Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details	Halil Mutlu  Turkey	Wu Meijin  China	Sedat Artuç  Turkey
62 kg details	Shi Zhiyong  China	Le Maosheng  China	Israel José Rubio  Venezuela
69 kg details	Zhang Guozheng  China	Lee Bae-young  South Korea	Nikolaj Pešalov  Croatia
77 kg details	Taner Sağır  Turkey	Sergey Filimonov  Kazakhstan	Reyhan Arabacıoğlu  Turkey
85 kg details	Giorgi Asanidze  Georgia	Andrei Rybakou  Belarus	Pyrros Dimas  Greece
94 kg details	Milen Dobrev  Bulgaria	Khadzhimurat Akkaev  Russia	Eduard Tyukin  Russia
105 kg details	Dmitry Berestov  Russia	Ihor Razoronov  Ukraine	Gleb Pisarevskiy  Russia
+105 kg details	Hossein Rezazadeh  Iran	Viktors Ščerbatihs  Latvia	Velichko Cholakov  Bulgaria

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Nurcan Taylan  Turkey	Li Zhuo  China	Aree Wiratthaworn  Thailand
53 kg details	Udomporn Polsak  Thailand	Raema Lisa Rumbewas  Indonesia	Mabel Mosquera  Colombia
58 kg details	Chen Yanqing  China	Ri Song-hui  North Korea	Wandee Kameaim  Thailand
63 kg details	Nataliya Skakun  Ukraine	Hanna Batsiushka  Belarus	Tatsiana Stukalava  Belarus
69 kg details	Liu Chunhong  China	Eszter Krutzler  Hungary	Zarema Kasaeva  Russia
75 kg details	Pawina Thongsuk  Thailand	Natalya Zabolotnaya  Russia	Valentina Popova  Russia
+75 kg details	Tang Gonghong  China	Jang Mi-ran  South Korea	Agata Wróbel  Poland

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	5	3	0	8
2	Turkey (TUR)	3	0	2	5
3	Thailand (THA)	2	0	2	4
4	Russia (RUS)	1	2	4	7
5	Ukraine (UKR)	1	1	0	2
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	1	2
7	Georgia (GEO)	1	0	0	1
	Iran (IRI)	1	0	0	1
9	Belarus (BLR)	0	2	1	3
10	South Korea (KOR)	0	2	0	2
11	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	0	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	0	1
16	Colombia (COL)	0	0	1	1
	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		15	15	15	45

Participating nations

A total of 249 weightlifters from 79 nations competed at the Athens Games:

•  Albania (2)
•  Algeria (2)
•  American Samoa (1)
•  Argentina (2)
•  Armenia (4)
•  Aruba (1)
•  Australia (2)
•  Austria (1)
•  Azerbaijan (5)
•  Belarus (8)
•  Bulgaria (9)
•  Cameroon (2)
•  Canada (2)
•  China (10)
•  Chinese Taipei (8)
•  Colombia (9)
•  Comoros (1)
•  Cook Islands (1)
•  Croatia (1)
•  Cuba (2)
•  Czech Republic (1)
•  Dominican Republic (1)
•  Ecuador (2)
•  Egypt (5)
•  El Salvador (1)
•  Federated States of Micronesia (1)
•  Fiji (1)
•  France (5)
•  Georgia (2)
•  Germany (4)
•  Great Britain (2)
•  Greece (10)
•  Guatemala (1)
•  Guyana (1)
•  Hungary (7)
•  India (3)
•  Indonesia (6)
•  Iran (6)
•  Iraq (1)
•  Japan (4)
•  Kazakhstan (3)
•  Kiribati (1)
•  Kyrgyzstan (1)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Libya (2)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Malaysia (1)
•  Mauritius (1)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Moldova (3)
•  Mongolia (1)
•  Morocco (1)
•  Myanmar (1)
•  Nauru (3)
•  Nigeria (2)
•  North Korea (4)
•  Norway (1)
•  Papua New Guinea (1)
•  Peru (1)
•  Poland (7)
•  Qatar (2)
•  Romania (7)
•  Russia (9)
•  Samoa (1)
•  Saudi Arabia (4)
•  Seychelles (1)
•  Slovakia (3)
•  South Korea (7)
•  Spain (2)
•  Thailand (5)
•  Tunisia (2)
•  Turkey (9)
•  Turkmenistan (1)
•  Uganda (1)
•  Ukraine (9)
•  United States (5)
•  Uzbekistan (3)
•  Venezuela (3)
•  Vietnam (1)

Doping

A total of twelve weightlifters were disqualified for doping, amongst them Greek star Leonidas Sabanis, who had won two silver medals in previous Olympics and who had originally been awarded the bronze medal in the Men's 62 kg division.^[2][3][4][5]