Weightlifting competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London were held from 28 July to 7 August in the ExCeL venue. Fifteen gold medals were awarded and 260 athletes took part (156 men and 104 women).

Events

15 sets of medals were awarded in the following events:

56 kg Men 62 kg Men 69 kg Men 77 kg Men 85 kg Men 94 kg Men 105 kg Men +105 kg Men

48 kg Women 53 kg Women 58 kg Women 63 kg Women 69 kg Women 75 kg Women +75 kg Women

Qualification

Medal summary

The results of the 2012 Olympic weightlifting competition have been significantly revised after doping was uncovered through retests of samples from these Games.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	5	2	0	7
2	Iran	3	2	0	5
3	North Korea	3	0	2	5
4	Poland	1	1	1	3
5	Canada	1	0	0	1
	Chinese Taipei	1	0	0	1
	Spain	1	0	0	1
8	Indonesia	0	2	1	3
9	South Korea	0	1	2	3
10	Colombia	0	1	1	2
	Egypt	0	1	1	2
	Thailand	0	1	1	2
13	Bulgaria	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
17	Cameroon	0	0	1	1
	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
	Vietnam	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		15	15	15	45

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg details	Om Yun-chol  North Korea	Wu Jingbiao  China	Trần Lê Quốc Toàn  Vietnam
62 kg details	Kim Un-guk  North Korea	Óscar Figueroa  Colombia	Eko Yuli Irawan  Indonesia
69 kg details	Lin Qingfeng  China	Triyatno  Indonesia	Kim Myong-hyok  North Korea
77 kg details	Lü Xiaojun  China	Lu Haojie  China	Iván Cambar  Cuba
85 kg details	Adrian Zieliński  Poland	Kianoush Rostami  Iran	Tarek Yehia  Egypt
94 kg details	Saeid Mohammadpour  Iran	Kim Min-jae  South Korea	Tomasz Zieliński  Poland
105 kg details	Navab Nassirshalal  Iran	Bartłomiej Bonk  Poland	Ivan Efremov  Uzbekistan
+105 kg details	Behdad Salimi  Iran	Sajjad Anoushiravani  Iran	Jeon Sang-guen  South Korea

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Wang Mingjuan  China	Hiromi Miyake  Japan	Ryang Chun-hwa  North Korea
53 kg details	Hsu Shu-ching  Chinese Taipei	Citra Febrianti  Indonesia	Iulia Paratova  Ukraine
58 kg details	Li Xueying  China	Pimsiri Sirikaew  Thailand	Rattikan Gulnoi  Thailand
63 kg details	Christine Girard  Canada	Milka Maneva  Bulgaria	Luz Acosta  Mexico
69 kg details	Rim Jong-sim  North Korea	Anna Nurmukhambetova  Kazakhstan	Ubaldina Valoyes  Colombia
75 kg details	Lydia Valentín  Spain	Abeer Abdelrahman  Egypt	Madias Nzesso  Cameroon
+75 kg details	Zhou Lulu  China	Tatiana Kashirina  Russia	Jang Mi-ran  South Korea