1997 World Weightlifting Championships

Host City Chiang Mai
Country THA
Held 6 – 14 December 1997
Competitors 83
Countries 25

Team classification men:

  1. CHN 643
  2. BUL 521
  3. TUR 507
  4. RUS 458
  5. POL 433
  6. EGY 343
  7. TPE 337
  8. GER 312
  9. AUS 302
  10. JPN 295
  11. UKR 286
  12. LAT 286
  13. THA 247
  14. KOR 239
  15. KAZ 212
  16. SVK 205
  17. ITA 171
  18. ARM 156
  19. USA 151
  20. CUB 147
  21. AZE 141
  22. HUN 132
  23. ROU 116
  24. CZE 115
  25. CAN 105
  26. VEN 104
  27. ESP 103
  28. AUT 98
  29. MAS 93
  30. SWE 87 (ex aequo 30.)
  31. NRU 87 (ex aequo 30.)
  32. FIN 86
  33. UZB 83
  34. BEL 73
  35. MDA 73
  36. NOR 58
  37. IRQ 57
  38. NED 55
  39. GBR 54
  40. FRA 52
  41. NZL 45
  42. ISR 44
  43. DEN 38
  44. ARG 31
  45. CHI 27
  46. SUI 24
  47. KGZ 22
  48. URU 4

PRK, ALG, and LTU 0

Team classification women:

  1. CHN 666
  2. MYA 510
  3. IND 508
  4. THA 499
  5. TPE 480
  6. RUS 366
  7. ESP 277
  8. PRK 265
  9. JPN 249
  10. GRE 228
  11. INA 227
  12. CAN 225
  13. KOR 224
  14. ITA 212
  15. USA 209
  16. HUN 198
  17. TUR 141
  18. VEN 139
  19. BUL 138
  20. FRA 132
  21. NRU 116
  22. AUS 115
  23. POL 110
  24. SVK 97
  25. EGY 93
  26. COL 73
  27. NGR 68
  28. GER 61 (ex aequo 28.)
  29. FIN 61 (ex aequo 28.)
  30. URK 59
  31. NOR 57
  32. NZL 48
  33. UZB 44
  34. GBR 43
  35. ROU 36
  36. MEX 34 (ex aequo 36.)
  37. CZE 34 (ex aequo 36.)
  38. NED 30

ARG 0

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
-54 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 2
-54 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-54 kg Total Men — Medal 3 2
-59 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
-59 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 2
-59 kg Total Men — Medal 3 2
-64 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 2
-64 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-64 kg Total Men — Medal 3 3
-70 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 2
-70 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-70 kg Total Men — Medal 3 2
-76 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 2
-76 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 2
-76 kg Total Men — Medal 3 2
-83 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
-83 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 2
-83 kg Total Men — Medal 3 2
-91 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
-91 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-91 kg Total Men — Medal 3 3
-99 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
-99 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-99 kg Total Men — Medal 3 3
-108 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 2
-108 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
-108 kg Total Men — Medal 3 3
+108 kg Snatch Men — Medal 3 3
+108 kg Clean & Jerk Men — Medal 3 3
+108 kg Total Men — Medal 3 3
-46 kg Snatch Women 6 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-46 kg Clean & Jerk Women 6 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-46 kg Total Women 6 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-50 kg Snatch Women 7 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-50 kg Clean & Jerk Women 7 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-50 kg Total Women 7 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-54 kg Snatch Women 8 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-54 kg Clean & Jerk Women 8 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-54 kg Total Women 8 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-59 kg Snatch Women 9 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-59 kg Clean & Jerk Women 9 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-59 kg Total Women 9 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-64 kg Snatch Women 10 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-64 kg Clean & Jerk Women 10 December 1997 Medal 3 2
-64 kg Total Women 10 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-70 kg Snatch Women 11 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-70 kg Clean & Jerk Women 11 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-70 kg Total Women 11 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-76 kg Snatch Women 12 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-76 kg Clean & Jerk Women 12 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-76 kg Total Women 12 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-83 kg Snatch Women 13 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-83 kg Clean & Jerk Women 13 December 1997 Medal 3 3
-83 kg Total Women 13 December 1997 Medal 3 3
+83 kg Snatch Women 13 December 1997 Medal 3 3
+83 kg Clean & Jerk Women 13 December 1997 Medal 3 2
+83 kg Total Women 13 December 1997 Medal 3 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 China CHN 29 9 6 44
2 Bulgaria BUL 8 5 5 18
3 Indonesia INA 4 0 5 9
4 Russia RUS 3 7 1 11
5 Poland POL 3 5 5 13
6 Slovakia SVK 3 0 0 3
7 Myanmar MYA 2 2 5 9
8 Chinese Taipei TPE 1 6 7 14
9 Thailand THA 1 2 2 5
10 Germany GER 1 2 0 3
11 Cuba CUB 1 1 0 2
12 Venezuela VEN 1 0 1 2
13 Hungary HUN 0 3 2 5
= South Korea KOR 0 3 2 5
15 Turkey TUR 0 3 1 4
16 India IND 0 2 2 4
17 Colombia COL 0 2 1 3
= North Korea PRK 0 2 1 3
19 Azerbaijan AZE 0 1 1 2
= United States USA 0 1 1 2
21 Nigeria NGR 0 1 0 1
22 Latvia LAT 0 0 3 3
= Ukraine UKR 0 0 3 3
24 Spain ESP 0 0 2 2
25 Kazakhstan KAZ 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
-54 kg Snatch, Men Yang Bin CHN Lan Shizhang CHN Wang Shin-Yuan TPE
-54 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Lan Shizhang CHN Wang Shin-Yuan TPE Nayden Rusev BUL
-54 kg Total, Men Lan Shizhang CHN Yang Bin CHN Wang Shin-Yuan TPE
-59 kg Snatch, Men William Vargas CUB Stefan Georgiev BUL Le Maosheng CHN
-59 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Stefan Georgiev BUL Le Maosheng CHN Sevdalin Minchev BUL
-59 kg Total, Men Stefan Georgiev BUL Le Maosheng CHN Sevdalin Minchev BUL
-64 kg Snatch, Men Wang Guohua CHN Hafız Süleymanoğlu TUR Xiao Jiangang CHN
-64 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Xiao Jiangang CHN Asif Məlikov AZE Valentin Sarov BUL
-64 kg Total, Men Xiao Jiangang CHN Hafız Süleymanoğlu TUR Asif Məlikov AZE
-70 kg Snatch, Men Zlatаn Vasilev BUL Zhan Xugang CHN Wan Jianhui CHN
-70 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Zlatаn Vasilev BUL Zhan Xugang CHN Kim Hak-Bong KOR
-70 kg Total, Men Zlatаn Vasilev BUL Zhan Xugang CHN Wan Jianhui CHN
-76 kg Snatch, Men Georgi Gardev BUL Waldemar Kosiński POL Yoto Yotov BUL
-76 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Yoto Yotov BUL Andrzej Kozłowski POL Waldemar Kosiński POL
-76 kg Total, Men Yoto Yotov BUL Georgi Gardev BUL Waldemar Kosiński POL
-83 kg Snatch, Men Andrzej Cofalik POL Yury Myshkovets RUS Dursun Sevinç TUR
-83 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Zhang Yong CHN Krzysztof Siemion POL Andrzej Cofalik POL
-83 kg Total, Men Andrzej Cofalik POL Dursun Sevinç TUR Krzysztof Siemion POL
-91 kg Snatch, Men Tadeusz Drzazga POL Maksim Agapitov RUS Andrey Makarov KAZ
-91 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Julio César Luna VEN Maksim Agapitov RUS Oleh Chumak UKR
-91 kg Total, Men Maksim Agapitov RUS Tadeusz Drzazga POL Julio César Luna VEN
-99 kg Snatch, Men Martin Tešovič SVK Choi Jong-Geun KOR Lorenzo Carrió ESP
-99 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Martin Tešovič SVK Ernesto Montoya CUB Oleksiy Obukhov UKR
-99 kg Total, Men Martin Tešovič SVK Choi Jong-Geun KOR Oleksiy Obukhov UKR
-108 kg Snatch, Men Cui Wenhua CHN Yevgeny Shishlyannikov RUS Sergey Syrtsov RUS
-108 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Cui Wenhua CHN Wes Barnett USA Mariusz Jędra POL
-108 kg Total, Men Cui Wenhua CHN Mariusz Jędra POL Wes Barnett USA
+108 kg Snatch, Men Ronny Weller GER Andrey Chemerkin RUS Viktors Ščerbatihs LAT
+108 kg Clean & Jerk, Men Andrey Chemerkin RUS Ronny Weller GER Viktors Ščerbatihs LAT
+108 kg Total, Men Andrey Chemerkin RUS Ronny Weller GER Viktors Ščerbatihs LAT
-46 kg Snatch, Women Kyi Kyi Than MYA Liu Ling CHN Sri Indriyani INA
-46 kg Clean & Jerk, Women Liu Ling CHN Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi IND Sri Indriyani INA
-46 kg Total, Women Liu Ling CHN Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi IND Sri Indriyani INA
-50 kg Snatch, Women Zhong Yan CHN Izabela Dragneva BUL Winarni Binti Slamet INA
-50 kg Clean & Jerk, Women Winarni Binti Slamet INA Izabela Dragneva BUL Win Swe Swe MYA
-50 kg Total, Women Winarni Binti Slamet INA Izabela Dragneva BUL Ri Yong-Hwa PRK
-54 kg Snatch, Women Meng Xianjuan CHN Khin Moe Nwe MYA Kuo Ping-Chun TPE
-54 kg Clean & Jerk, Women Meng Xianjuan CHN Ri Song-Hui PRK Saipin Dejsaeng THA
-54 kg Total, Women Meng Xianjuan CHN Ri Song-Hui PRK Saipin Dejsaeng THA
-59 kg Snatch, Women Patmawati Abdul Wahid INA Khassaraporn Suta THA Wu Mei-Yi TPE
-59 kg Clean & Jerk, Women Khassaraporn Suta THA Naw Ju Ni MYA Patmawati Abdul Wahid INA
-59 kg Total, Women Patmawati Abdul Wahid INA Khassaraporn Suta THA Naw Ju Ni MYA
-64 kg Snatch, Women Chen Jui-Lien TPE Chen Yanqing CHN Neelam Setti Laxmi IND
-64 kg Clean & Jerk, Women Chen Yanqing CHN Chen Jui-Lien TPE Lu Yun CHN
-64 kg Total, Women Chen Yanqing CHN Chen Jui-Lien TPE Neelam Setti Laxmi IND
-70 kg Snatch, Women Xiang Fenglan CHN Ilona Dankó HUN Huang Hsi-Li TPE
-70 kg Clean & Jerk, Women Xiang Fenglan CHN Irina Kasimova RUS Huang Hsi-Li TPE
-70 kg Total, Women Xiang Fenglan CHN Huang Hsi-Li TPE Ilona Dankó HUN
-76 kg Snatch, Women Hua Ju CHN Mária Takács HUN Mónica Carrió ESP
-76 kg Clean & Jerk, Women Hua Ju CHN Kim Sun-Hui KOR Mária Takács HUN
-76 kg Total, Women Hua Ju CHN Mária Takács HUN Kim Sun-Hui KOR
-83 kg Snatch, Women Tang Weifang CHN Albina Khomich RUS María Isabel Urrutia COL
-83 kg Clean & Jerk, Women Tang Weifang CHN María Isabel Urrutia COL Aye Mon Khin MYA
-83 kg Total, Women Tang Weifang CHN María Isabel Urrutia COL Aye Mon Khin MYA
+83 kg Snatch, Women Aye Aye Aung MYA Balkisu Musa NGR Ma Runmei CHN
+83 kg Clean & Jerk, Women Ma Runmei CHN Chen Hsiao-Lien TPE Chen Shu-Chih TPE
+83 kg Total, Women Ma Runmei CHN Chen Shu-Chih TPE Aye Aye Aung MYA