2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting

Weightlifting at the XXX. Summer Olympics
information
venue	London
Competition venue	ExCeL Exhibition Center
Nations	84
Athletes	253 (103 women, 150 men)
date	July 28 - August 7, 2012
decisions	15th
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At the XXX. 2012 Summer Games in London found 15 competitions in weightlifting , seven for women and eight for men. The venue was the ExCeL Exhibition Center at the Royal Victoria Dock in the London Borough of Newham .

As a result of various re-tests of doping samples in the years thereafter, 30 participants in the weightlifting competitions in 2012 have been disqualified for doping, including four Olympic champions (as of January 2020).

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	China	5	2	-	7th
2	North Korea	3	-	1	4th
3	Iran	2	3	-	5
4th	Poland	1	-	2	3
5	Ukraine	1	-	1	2
6th	Chinese Taipei	1	-	-	1
	Canada	1	-	-	1
	Spain	1	-	-	1
9	Indonesia	-	2	1	3
10	Egypt	-	1	1	2
	Romania	-	1	1	2
	Russia	-	1	1	2
	South Korea	-	1	1	2
	Thailand	-	1	1	2
15th	Bulgaria	-	1	-	1
	Colombia	-	1	-	1
	Bulgaria	-	1	-	1
18th	Azerbaijan	-	-	1	1
	Cameroon	-	-	1	1
	Kazakhstan	-	-	1	1
	Azerbaijan	-	-	1	1
	Mexico	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze Class up to 56 kg Om Yun-chol Wu Jingbiao Valentin Xristov Class up to 62 kg Kim Un-guk Óscar Figueroa Eko Yuli Irawan Class up to 69 kg Lin Qingfeng Triyatno Răzvan Martin Class up to 77 kg Lu Xiaojun Lu Haojie Iván Cambar Class up to 85 kg Adrian Zieliński Kianoush Rostami Tarek Abdelazim Class up to 94 kg Saeid Mohammadpour Kim Min-jae Tomasz Zieliński Class up to 105 kg Oleksiy Torochtiy Navab nasirshelal Bartłomiej Bonk Class over 105 kg Behdad Salimikordasiabi Sajjad Anoushiravani Ruslan Albegow

Women competitor gold silver bronze Class up to 48 kg Wang Mingjuan Hiromi Miyake Ryang Chun-hwa Class up to 53 kg Hsu Shu-ching Citra Febrianti Julia Paratova Class up to 58 kg Li Xueying Pimsiri Sirikaew Rattican Gulnoi Class up to 63 kg Christine Girard Milka Manewa Luz Acosta Class up to 69 kg Rim Jong-sim Roxana Cocoș Anna Nurmukhambetova Class up to 75 kg Lidia Valentín Abir Abdelrahman Madias Nzesso Class over 75 kg Zhou Lulu Tatiana Kashirina Jang Mi-ran

Time schedule

ExCeL Exhibition Center - venue for weightlifting competitions

Competitions	July August
Women	28.	29	30th	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th
Class up to 48 kg
Class up to 53 kg
Class up to 58 kg
Class up to 63 kg
Class up to 69 kg
Class up to 75 kg
Class over 75 kg
Men	28.	29	30th	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th
Class up to 56 kg
Class up to 62 kg
Class up to 69 kg
Class up to 77 kg
Class up to 85 kg
Class up to 94 kg
Class up to 105 kg
Class over 105 kg

Results men

Class up to 56 kg (bantam weight)

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Bantamweight (men)

space	country	athlete	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	PRK	Om Yun-chol	125	168	293 ( OR )
2	CHN	Wu Jingbiao	133	156	289
3		vacant
4th	VIE	Trần Lê Quốc Toàn	125	159	284
5	INA	Jadi Setiadi	127	150	277
6th	MEX	José Montes	112	157	269
7th	COL	Sergio Rada	118	151	269
8th	COL	Carlos Berna	118	150	268
9	ROME	Florin Croitoru	121	147	268
10	PRK	Sin Chol-bom	113	145	258

Date: July 29, 2012, 10:00 a.m. (group B) / 7:00 p.m. (group A)
18 participants from 15 countries

Class up to 62 kg (feather weight)

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Featherweight (men)

space	country	athlete	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	PRK	Kim Un-guk	153	174	327 ( WR )
2	COL	Óscar Figueroa	140	177	317
3	INA	Eko Yuli Irawan	145	172	317
4th	CHN	Zhang Jie	140	174	314
5	DOOR	Hursit Atak	130	172	302
6th	TKM	Ümürbek Bazarbaýew	135	167	302
7th	INA	Muhammad Hasabi	138	163	301
8th	DOOR	Erol Bilgin	135	165	300
9	EGY	Ahmed Saad	130	162	292
10	FSM	Manuel Minginfel	127	158	285

Date: July 30, 2012, 10:00 a.m. (group B) / 7:00 p.m. (group A)
15 participants from 13 countries

Class up to 69 kg (lightweight)

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Lightweight (Men)

space	country	athlete	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	CHN	Lin Qingfeng	157	187	344
2	INA	Triyatno	145	188	333
3	ROME	Răzvan Martin	152	180	332
4th	PRK	Kim Myong-hyok	145	184	329
5	VEN	Junior Sánchez	148	180	328
6th	DOOR	Mete Binay	150	175	325
7th	COR	Won Jeong-sik	144	178	322
8th	AZE	Sərdar Həsənov	145	176	321
9	ALB	Briken Calja	143	177	320
10	EGY	Mohamed Abdelbaki	145	171	316

Date: July 31, 2012, 10:00 a.m. (Group B) / 7:00 p.m. (Group A)
24 participants from 10 countries

Class up to 77 kg (middle weight)

space	country	athlete	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	CHN	Lu Xiaojun	175	204	379
2	CHN	Lu Haojie	170	190	360
3	CUB	Iván Cambar	155	194	349
4th	THA	Chatuphum Chinnawong	157	191	348
5	EGY	Ibrahim Ramadan	155	192	347
6th	ESP	Andrés Mata	150	188	338
7th	POLE	Krzysztof Zwarycz	150	182	332
8th	NGR	Felix Ekpo	151	180	331
9	KAZ	Kyrill Pavlov	147	175	322
10	GBR	Jack Oliver	140	170	310

Date: August 1, 2012, 10:00 a.m. (Group B) / 7:00 p.m. (Group B)
12 participants from 11 countries

Class up to 85 kg (light heavy weight)

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Light Heavyweight (Men)

space	country	athlete	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	POLE	Adrian Zieliński	174	211	385
2	IRI	Kianoush Rostami	171	209	380
3	EGY	Tarek Abdelazim	165	210	375
4th	BUL	Ivan Markov	172	203	375
5	EGY	Ragab Abdelhay	165	207	372
6th	CUB	Yoelmis Hernández	163	205	368
7th	BLR	Mikalai Novikau	167	196	363
8th	United States	Kendrick Farris	155	200	355
9	UZB	Sherzodjon Yusupov	155	195	350
10	THA	Pitaya Tibnoke	152	196	348

Date: August 3, 2012, 10:00 a.m. (Group B) / 7:00 p.m. (Group B)
23 participants from 20 countries

On October 18, 2016, the IOC disqualified the originally second-placed Russian Apti Auchadow for doping with dehydrochloromethyltestosterone and drostanolone . On November 21, 2016, the originally ninth-placed Georgian Rauli Tsirekidze , who had doped himself with dehydrochloromethyl testosterone and stanozolol, was disqualified .

Class up to 94 kg (medium weight)

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Middle Heavyweight (Men)

space	country	athlete	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	IRI	Saeid Mohammadpour	183	219	402
2	COR	Kim Min-jae	185	210	395
3	POLE	Tomasz Zieliński	175	210	385
4th	BLR	Aleksandr Makarenko	175	209	384
5	UKR	Kostjantin Piliev	166	206	372
6th	GRE	David Kavelasvili	170	200	370
7th	ALB	Endri Karina	155	195	350
8th	KSA	bbas Al-Qaisoum	155	180	335
9	GBR	Peter Kirkbride	138	190	328
10	KIR	David Katoatau	140	185	325

Date: August 4, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
21 participants from 18 countries

As the IOC announced in August 2016, the Kazakh Ilya Ilyin , who had sneaked the gold medal at the 2008 Games with the help of doping agents, also competed with doping in 2012 and thus also came first. He was disqualified and stripped of the 2008 and 2012 gold medals. The second-placed Russian Alexander Ivanov was also doped, as was the third-placed Moldovan Anatolii Cîrîcu , who was convicted of a follow-up test in September 2016 and is now a three-time repeat offender after 2007 and 2015.

It has also been known since September 2016 that fourth-placed Russian Andrei Demanow , sixth-placed Azerbaijanist İntiqam Zairov and seventh-placed Kazakh Almas Öteschow were doped. In October 2016, there was another case of doping abuse by the eleventh-placed Armenian Norayr Wardanjan . This means that the fifth-placed Iranian Saeid Mohammadpour , the eighth-placed Korean Kim Min-jae and the ninth-placed Pole Tomasz Zieliński advanced to the medal ranks.

The Ukrainian Artem Ivanov , who had already lifted 420 kilograms at the Ukrainian championships in 2012, eight kilograms above the world record at that time, did not take part in the compulsory weighing of the athletes without giving a reason and was therefore disqualified.

Class up to 105 kg (heavyweight)

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Heavyweight (Men)

space	country	athlete	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1
2	IRI	Navab nasirshelal	184	227	411
3	POLE	Bartłomiej Bonk	190	220	410
4th	UZB	Ruslan Nurudinov	184	220	404
5	UZB	Ivan Yefremov	183	218	401
6th	SYR	Ahed Jouhili	180	218	398
7th	LAT	Artūrs Plēsnieks	175	215	390
8th	ECU	Jorge Arroyo	185	200	385
9	GER	Jürgen Spieß	172	202	374
10	UKR	Serhiy Tahirov	174	200	374

Award ceremony

Date: August 6, 2012, 3:30 p.m. (group B) / 7:00 p.m. (group A)
17 participants from 14 countries. The Ukrainian Oleksijj Torochtij was stripped of the gold medal for doping. An update of the IOC is still open.

Class over 105 kg (super heavyweight)

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Super Heavyweight (Men)

space	country	athlete	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	IRI	Behdad Salimikordasiabi	208	247	455
2	IRI	Sajjad Anoushiravani	204	245	449
3	RUS	Ruslan Albegow	208	240	448
4th	COR	Sang-Guen Jeon	190	246	436
5	GEO	Irakli Turmanidze	201	232	433
6th	UKR	Ihor Shymechko	197	232	429
7th	CZE	Jiří Orság	187	239	426
8th	GER	Almir Velagic	192	234	426
9	TPE	Chen Shih-chieh	182	236	418
10	HUN	Péter Nagy	191	225	416

Date: August 7, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
19 participants from 17 countries

Matthias Steiner fell while trying to tear 196 kg and was hit in the neck by the barbell. He suffered bruises in the chest and neck area and had to abandon the competition.

Results women

Class up to 48 kg (bantam weight)

space	country	sportswoman	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	CHN	Wang Mingjuan	91	114	205
2	JPN	Hiromi Miyake	87	110	197
3	PRK	Ryang Chun-hwa	80	112	192
4th	THA	Sirivimon Pramongkhol	82	109	191
5	DOOR	Nurdan Karagöz	83	104	187
6th	JPN	Honami Mizuochi	80	096	176
7th	IND	Ngangbam Soniya Chanu	74	097	171
8th	VEN	Betsi Rivas	70	098	168
9	DOM	Beatriz Pirón	79	090	167
10	FRA	Mélanie Bardis	73	093	166

Date: July 28, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
14 participants from 12 countries

Class up to 53 kg (feather weight)

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Featherweight (women)

space	country	sportswoman	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	TPE	Hsu Shu-ching	96	123	219
2	INA	Citra Febrianti	91	115	206
3	UKR	Julia Paratova	91	108	199
4th	COL	Rusmeris Villar	87	109	196
5	POLE	Aleksandra Klejnowska	84	112	196
6th	VIE	Nguyễn Thị Thúy	85	110	195
7th	HKG	Yu Weili	90	105	195
8th	VEN	Inmara Henríquez	81	113	194
9	GER	Julia Rohde	85	108	193
10	JPN	Kanae Yagi	82	109	191

Date: July 29, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
18 participants from 13 countries

As it turned out in June 2016 during the doping re-test of the International Olympic Committee, the Kazakh girl Sulfija Tschinschanlo had obtained her gold medal by unauthorized means. For this reason, this medal was revoked. On November 21, 2016, Moldovan Cristina Iovu's silver medal was withdrawn .

Class up to 58 kg (lightweight)

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Lightweight (women)

space	country	sportswoman	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	CHN	Li Xueying	108	138	246 ( OR )
2	THA	Pimsiri Sirikaew	100	136	236
3	THA	Rattican Gulnoi	100	134	234
4th	PRK	Jong Chun-mi	101	130	231
5	BLR	Nastassja Novikawa	103	127	230
6th	TPE	Kuo Hsing-chun	099	129	228
7th	ECU	Alexandra Escobar	103	123	226
8th	COL	Jackelina Heredia	100	125	225
9	ALB	Romela Begaj	101	115	216
10	GBR	Zoe Smith	090	121	211

Date: July 30, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
19 participants from 17 countries

After her exposure, the Ukrainian Julija Kalina had to return her bronze medal for doping fraud in July 2016. The originally fifth-placed Azerbaijani Boyanka Kostova was also doped .

Class up to 63 kg (middle weight)

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Middleweight (women)

space	country	sportswoman	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	CAN	Christine Girard	103	133	236
2	BUL	Milka Manewa	102	131	233
3	MEX	Luz Acosta	099	125	224
4th	OUT	Seen Lee	083	103	186
5	FIJ	Maria Liku	082	100	182
6th	NCA	Lucía Castañeda	079	097	176
7th	BY	Silvana Saldarriaga	075	097	172

Date: July 31, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
10 participants from 10 countries

In August 2016, the first-placed Kazakh girl Maija Manesa was convicted of doping fraud with stanozolol , whereupon the IOC stripped her of the gold medal. Further withdrawals followed on January 12, 2017 from the originally second-placed Turkish Sibel Şimşek and on April 5, 2017 from the Russian Swetlana Zarukajewa, who had meanwhile moved up to first place .

Class up to 69 kg (light heavy weight)

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Light Heavyweight (Women)

space	country	sportswoman	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	PRK	Rim Jong-sim	115	146	261
2	ROME	Roxana Cocoș	113	143	256
3	KAZ	Anna Nurmukhambetova	115	136	256
4th	COL	Ubaldina Valoyes	111	135	246
5	TPE	Huang Shih-hsu	110	131	241
6th	CAN	Marie-Ève ​​Beauchemin-Nadeau	104	135	239
7th	EGY	Esmat Mansour	105	130	235
8th	TO DO	Ghada Hassine	102	120	222
9	ECU	Rosa Tenorio	095	115	210
10	GBR	Natasha Perdue	092	113	205

Date: August 1, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
15 participants from 14 countries

On October 27, 2016, the IOC recognized the bronze medal of Belarusian Maryna Schkermankova , and Belarusian Dzina Sazanawets , who originally came fourth, had to be disqualified.

Class up to 75 kg (heavyweight)

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Heavyweight (Women)

space	country	athlete	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	ESP	Lidia Valentín	120	145	265
2	EGY	Abir Abdelrahman	118	140	258
3	CMR	Madias Nzesso	115	131	246
4th	POLE	Ewa Mizdal	104	127	231
5	BRA	Jaqueline Ferreira	102	128	230
6th	CHI	María Fernanda Valdés	096	127	223
7th	COR	Lim Ji-hye	097	126	223
8th	SYR	Thuraia Sobh	086	115	201
9	UAE	Khadija Mohammed	051	062	113

Lidia Valentín

Date: August 3, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
13 participants from 12 countries

In August 2016, the third-placed Belarusian Irina Kulescha was convicted of doping fraud with dehydrochloromethyltestosterone . The first-placed Kazakh Svetlana Podobedowa and the second-placed Russian Natalja Sabolotnaja were also doped. The originally fourth-placed Spaniard Lidia Valentín moved up as Olympic champion.

Class over 75 kg (super heavyweight)

→ Main article : 2012 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting - Super Heavyweight (Women)

space	country	athlete	Tear (kg)	Push (kg)	Total (kg)
1	CHN	Zhou Lulu	146	187 ( OR )	333 ( WR )
2	RUS	Tatiana Kashirina	151 ( WR )	181	332
3	COR	Jang Mi-ran	125	164	289
4th	EGY	Nahla Ramadan	122	155	277
5	SAM	Ele Opeloge	117	150	267
6th	United States	Sarah Robles	120	145	265
7th	ECU	Oliba Nieve	117	138	255
8th	JPN	Mami Shimamoto	110	143	253
9	United States	Holley Mangold	105	135	240
10	GUA	Astrid Camposeco	093	115	208

Date: August 5, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
14 participants from 13 countries

The IOC convicted the Armenian Hripsime Khurschudjan , who originally came third, of doping fraud and in November 2016 revoked her bronze medal.

qualification

Qualification criteria

There were 260 starting places available, 98 of them for women and 147 for men. Five quota places were reserved for the host NOK , ten starting places were awarded by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) to NOKs who could not achieve any quota places after the qualification phase was completed. Each NOK was allowed to nominate a maximum of four women and six men for the competitions and a maximum of two athletes per weight class. The main qualifying competitions were the 2010 World Championships in Antalya and 2011 in Paris . The results of the athletes of a NOC were summarized in a nation ranking, separated by gender.

For women, the results of the four best participants in a NOK were included in the national ranking. The best nine nations received the maximum number of four quota places, the following nations up to 16th place each three and the nations up to 21st place two each. All nations that could not achieve any quota places through this qualification were allowed to participate in continental qualifications in 2012, in which the four best African , American and oceanic as well as the six best European and Asian nations received a quota place each. Finally, up to seven quota places could be awarded to athletes who were among the ten best in their weight class according to the ranking, but whose NOK had not achieved a quota place.

For the men, the results of the six best participants in a NOK were included in the national ranking. The best six nations received the maximum number of six quota places, the following nations up to 12th place each five, the nations up to 18th place four and the nations up to 24th place three each. All nations that were unable to achieve quota positions through this qualification were allowed to take part in continental qualifications in 2012, in which the five best African and Oceanic as well as the seven best European, American and Asian nations received a quota position each. Finally, up to eight quota places could be awarded to athletes who were among the 15 best in their weight class according to the ranking, but whose NOK had not achieved a quota place.

List of qualifying competitions:

• World Championships 2010 in Antalya , September 17th to 26th, 2010 
• World Championships 2011 in Paris , November 5th to 13th, 2011 
• African Championships 2012 in Nairobi , March 28 to April 4, 2012 
• European Championships 2012 in Antalya , April 8th to 15th, 2012 
• Asian Championships 2012 in Pyeongtaek , April 22nd to 30th, 2012 
• Pan American Championships 2012 in Antigua , May 10-18, 2012 
• Oceania Championships in Apia , June 6-9, 2012 

Nations ranking

Final result in the nations ranking after two world championships.

Women
space	nation	World Cup 2010	World Cup 2011	total
4 quota places
01	Russia	104	102	206
02	People's Republic of China	99	106	205
03	Kazakhstan	95	101	196
04th	Turkey	106	82	188
05	Belarus	83	89	172
06th	Thailand	81	90	171
07th	Colombia	83	75	158
08th	South Korea	82	69	151
09	Japan	74	73	147
3 quota places
10	Chinese Taipei	57	82	139
11	Ukraine	77	55	132
12	North Korea	63	67	130
13	Poland	66	64	130
14th	Egypt	64	65	129
15th	Canada	62	60	122
16	Ecuador	65	55	120
2 quota places
17th	Germany	56	54	110
18th	Venezuela	54	55	109
19th	United States	53	52	105
20th	Dominican Republic	47	54	101
21st	Armenia	81	17th	098

Men
space	nation	World Cup 2010	World Cup 2011	total
6 quota places
01	People's Republic of China	124	137	261
02	Russia	123	135	258
03	Iran	97	136	233
04th	South Korea	96	127	223
05	Poland	132	91	223
06th	Ukraine	87	120	207
5 quota places
07th	Egypt	90	106	196
08th	Uzbekistan	116	75	191
09	North Korea	91	89	180
10	Turkey	92	79	171
11	Indonesia	96	67	163
12	Azerbaijan	69	93	162
4 quota places
13	Kazakhstan	60	98	158
14th	Belarus	77	80	157
15th	Colombia	86	66	152
16	Cuba	105	38	143
17th	Albania	57	76	133
18th	Armenia	62	69	131
3 quota places
19th	Turkmenistan	50	75	125
20th	Georgia	58	65	123
21st	France	38	83	121
22nd	Romania	58	60	118
23	Thailand	50	61	111
24	Germany	55	55	110

Quota places won

Won quota places according to NOKs
NOK	Women	Men	total
Egypt	3	5	8th
Albania	1	4th	5
Algeria		1	1
Armenia	2	4th	6th
Aruba		1	1
Azerbaijan	1	5	6th
Australia	1	1	2
Belgium		1	1
Brazil	1	1	2
Bulgaria	1	1	2
Chile	1	1	2
China	4th	6th	10
Cook Islands	1		1
Germany	2	3	5
Dominican Rep.	2		2
Ecuador	3	1	4th
El Salvador		1	1
Fiji	1	1	2
France	1	3	4th
Georgia		3	3
Ghana	1		1
Greece		1	1
Great Britain	2	3	5
Guatemala	1	1	2
Honduras		1	1
Hong Kong	1		1
India	1	1	2
Indonesia	1	5	6th
Iraq		1	1
Iran		6th	6th
Italy		1	1
Japan	4th	1	5
Cameroon	1	1	2
Canada	3		3
Kazakhstan	4th	4th	8th
Kenya	1		1
Kyrgyzstan		1	1
Kiribati		1	1
Colombia	4th	4th	8th
Cuba		4th	4th
Latvia		1	1
Lebanon		1	1
Lithuania		1	1
Madagascar	1		1
Mexico	1	1	2
Micronesia		1	1
Moldova	1	1	2
Nauru		1	1
New Zealand		1	1
Nicaragua	1		1
Nigeria	1	1	2
North Korea	3	5	8th
Palau		1	1
Papua New Guinea	1	1	2
Peru	1		1
Philippines	1		1
Poland	3	6th	9
Puerto Rico	1		1
Republic of China	3	1	4th
Romania	1	3	4th
Russia	4th	6th	10
Solomon Islands	1		1
Samoa	1	1	2
Saudi Arabia		1	1
Singapore	1		1
Slovakia		1	1
Spain	1	1	2
South Africa		1	1
South Korea	4th	6th	10
Syria	1	1	2
Thailand	4th	3	7th
Czech Republic		1	1
Tunisia	1	1	2
Turkey	4th	5	9
Turkmenistan		3	3
Tuvalu		1	1
Uganda		1	1
Ukraine	3	6th	9
Hungary		1	1
United States	2	1	3
Uzbekistan	1	5	6th
Venezuela	2	1	3
Ver. Arab Emirates	1		1
Vietnam	1	1	2
Belarus	4th	4th	8th
Total quota places	104	156	260

At the African Championships Nigeria, Tunisia, Cameroon and Madagascar for women and Algeria, Tunisia, Cameroon, South Africa and Nigeria each won a quota place for the men.

At the European Championships Azerbaijan, Romania, Spain, Bulgaria, Albania and France for women and Moldova, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Hungary, Greece, the Czech Republic and Spain each won a quota place.

In the Asian Championships, Uzbekistan, Syria, Indonesia, India, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam won for women and Japan, the Republic of China, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, India, Saudi Arabia and Syria each won a quota place.

In the Pan-American teams, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Guatemala for women and Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico, the USA, Guatemala, Venezuela and Chile each won a quota place for men.

At the Oceania Championships, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Fijis and Australia won for women and Australia, Kiribati, Fijis, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea each won a quota place for men.

Individual starting places were won by an athlete from Hong Kong, Moldova and the Philippines as well as an athlete from Slovakia, Latvia, Syria, El Salvador, Nauru and Micronesia.

At the end of the qualification, the world association IMF awarded a quota place to Belgium, Ghana, Kenya, Lebanon, Puerto Rico, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Peru and Uganda in June 2012. One athlete each from Aruba, the Cook Islands, Honduras, Nicaragua, Palau, Samoa and Tuvalu received a starting place by invitation.

Web links

Commons : 2012 Summer Olympic Games / Weightlifting  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 2012 Summer Games (PDF, 54.2 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weightlifting: Thailand's third Olympic gold medalist gives an insight into doping , on sportschau.de, from January 5, 2020.
2. ^ IOC sanctions two athletes for failing anti-doping test at London 2012. International Olympic Committee , October 18, 2016, accessed January 22, 2017 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} IOC sanctions 12 athletes for failing anti-doping test at London 2012. In: olympic.org. November 21, 2016, accessed January 22, 2017 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Doping at the 2008 Olympics: Another 15 weightlifters tested positive. Spiegel Online , August 24, 2016, accessed January 22, 2017 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} IOC sanctions seven athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. International Olympic Committee , November 25, 2016, accessed on January 22, 2017 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Bar Bend Team: Weightlifter Anatoli Ciricu Tests Positive from London; 9th Place Moves to Bronze - BarBe. In: barbend.com. September 14, 2016, accessed January 22, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Post- doping tests from 2012: Olympic third Ciricu positive. Rheinische Post , September 14, 2016, accessed on January 22, 2017 . 
8. ↑ IOC sanctions eight athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. International Olympic Committee , January 12, 2017, accessed September 27, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Weightlifter Ilya Ilyin wins gold with a world record. Spox.com , August 4, 2012, accessed January 22, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Steiner's weightlifting accident: The Dumbbell Drama. Spiegel Online , August 7, 2012, accessed January 22, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Weightlifting: Four Olympic weightlifting champions doped from London. (No longer available online.) Zeit.de , June 16, 2016, archived from the original on December 3, 2016 ; accessed on January 22, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ ^{a b} Doping: Three Kazakh women weightlifters lose Olympic gold. Euronews , October 27, 2016, accessed October 28, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Doping: Ukrainian loses bronze. Sport1 , July 13, 2016, accessed August 16, 2016 . 
14. ^ IOC sanctions eight athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. International Olympic Committee , January 12, 2017, accessed January 13, 2017 . 
15. ^ IOC sanctions three athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. International Olympic Committee , April 5, 2017, accessed April 6, 2017 . 
16. ^ Doping: Three Kazakh weightlifters stripped of gold medals from 2012 Games. Reuters , October 26, 2017, accessed October 27, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Gunnar Meinhardt : Weightlifting: She is the greatest profiteer of the doping swamp. welt.de , August 29, 2016, accessed on January 22, 2017 . 
18. ^ Olympic Qualification System Weightlifting. (PDF, 56 kB) Retrieved April 5, 2012 (English). 
19. ↑ QUALIFICATION TEAM CLASSIFICATION FOR LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES WOMEN. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 5, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
20. ↑ QUALIFICATION TEAM CLASSIFICATION FOR LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES MEN. (PDF; 42 kB) Accessed April 5, 2012 (English). 
21. ↑ AFRICAN QUALIFICATION TEAM CLASSIFICATION FOR LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES WOMEN. (PDF; 58 kB) Accessed April 5, 2012 (English). 
22. ↑ AFRICAN QUALIFICATION TEAM CLASSIFICATION FOR LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES MEN. (PDF; 59 kB) Retrieved April 5, 2012 (English). 
23. ↑ EUROPEAN QUALIFICATION TEAM CLASSIFICATION FOR LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES WOMEN. (PDF; 60 kB) Retrieved April 15, 2012 (English). 
24. ↑ EUROPEAN QUALIFICATION TEAM CLASSIFICATION FOR LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES MEN. (PDF; 60 kB) Retrieved April 15, 2012 (English). 
25. ↑ ASIAN QUALIFICATION TEAM CLASSIFICATION FOR LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES WOMEN. (PDF; 70 kB) Accessed April 30, 2012 (English). 
26. ↑ ASIAN QUALIFICATION TEAM CLASSIFICATION FOR LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES MEN. (PDF; 72 kB) Accessed April 30, 2012 (English). 
27. ↑ PAN-AMERICAN QUALIFICATION TEAM CLASSIFICATION FOR LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES WOMEN. (PDF; 55 kB) Retrieved on May 19, 2012 (English). 
28. ↑ PAN-AMERICAN QUALIFICATION TEAM CLASSIFICATION FOR LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES MEN. (PDF; 72 kB) Retrieved on May 19, 2012 (English). 
29. ↑ WOMEN QUALIFICATION APIA - SAT 06/04/2012 - 06/09/2012. (PDF; 70 kB) Accessed June 10, 2012 (English). 
30. ↑ MEN QUALIFICATION APIA - SAT 04.06.2012 - 09.06.2012. (PDF; 71 kB) Accessed June 10, 2012 (English). 
31. ↑ QUALIFICATION SUMMARY. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 10, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
32. ↑ QUALIFICATION SUMMARY June 26, 2012. (PDF; 38 kB) Accessed July 1, 2012 (English).