1998 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 62 kg

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The 1998 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Lahti, Finland November 7–15, 1998. The men's competition in the featherweight (– 62 kg) division was staged on November 9, 1998.

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Snatch  Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) 147.5 kg  Nikolaj Pešalov (CRO) 145.0 kg  Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) 140.0 kg
Clean & Jerk  Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) 172.5 kg  Nikolaj Pešalov (CRO) 172.5 kg  Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) 170.0 kg
Total  Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) 320.0 kg  Nikolaj Pešalov (CRO) 317.5 kg  Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) 310.0 kg

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world records were as follows.

World Record Snatch World Standard 145.0 kg — 1 January 1998
Clean & Jerk World Standard 180.0 kg — 1 January 1998
Total World Standard 325.0 kg — 1 January 1998

Results

Rank Athlete Body weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) 61.76 140.0 145.0 147.5 1st place, gold medalist(s) 167.5 172.5 172.5 1st place, gold medalist(s) 320.0
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Nikolaj Pešalov (CRO) 61.80 140.0 145.0 150.0 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 172.5 177.5 177.5 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 317.5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) 61.32 132.5 137.5 140.0 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 162.5 170.0 172.5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 310.0
4  Su Feixiang (CHN) 61.67 135.0 135.0 140.0 5 170.0 170.0 175.0 5 310.0
5  Le Maosheng (CHN) 61.48 137.5 142.5 142.5 6 170.0 170.0 177.5 4 307.5
6  Valentin Sarov (BUL) 61.57 135.0 135.0 140.0 4 162.5 172.5 172.5 7 302.5
7  Zoltán Farkas (HUN) 61.78 132.5 137.5 137.5 8 160.0 165.0 165.0 6 302.5
8  Vladimir Popov (MDA) 61.60 125.0 130.0 132.5 9 155.0 157.5 162.5 8 295.0
9  Hafız Süleymanoğlu (TUR) 61.63 137.5 142.5 142.5 7 157.5 165.0 165.0 12 295.0
10  Yurik Sarkisyan (AUS) 61.83 122.5 127.5 127.5 11 152.5 157.5 160.0 11 287.5
11  Marcus Stephen (NRU) 61.91 120.0 125.0 125.0 12 162.5 170.0 172.5 9 287.5
12  Oleg Shin (KAZ) 61.58 120.0 125.0 130.0 10 147.5 147.5 152.5 13 282.5
13  Roger Berrio (COL) 61.83 115.0 120.0 122.5 13 145.0 150.0 155.0 14 272.5
14  Alfonso Portillo (ESP) 61.53 110.0 115.0 115.0 15 140.0 145.0 150.0 15 260.0
15  Jyrki Welling (FIN) 61.76 107.5 112.5 115.0 16 137.5 142.5 142.5 18 257.5
16  Michael Garrido (FRA) 61.65 112.5 117.5 117.5 17 140.0 140.0 142.5 17 255.0
17  Tom Goegebuer (BEL) 60.98 110.0 110.0 110.0 18 137.5 137.5 142.5 16 252.5
18  Chen Po-pu (TPE) 61.32 110.0 110.0 115.0 19 140.0 140.0 145.0 19 250.0
19  Nuno Alves (POR) 61.10 102.5 107.5 110.0 20 130.0 135.0 135.0 20 237.5
20  Wayne Healy (IRE) 61.25 90.0 95.0 100.0 21 120.0 125.0 130.0 21 225.0
21  Badru Nyamuja (UGA) 61.60 95.0 100.0 100.0 22 125.0 130.0 130.0 22 225.0
—  Laurent Pedreno (FRA) 61.69 112.5 117.5 120.0 14 135.0 135.0 135.0 — —
—  Mohamed Osman (EGY) 61.47 115.0 115.0 115.0 — 150.0 160.0 165.0 10 —
—  Jarkko Welling (FIN) 61.52 105.0 105.0 105.0 — 120.0 127.5 130.0 23 —

New records

Snatch 147.5 kg  Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) WR

References

  • Results
  • Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics, Pages 14–15 Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine