Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 62 kg

Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Men			Women
	56 kg			48 kg
	62 kg			53 kg
	69 kg			58 kg
	77 kg			63 kg
	85 kg			69 kg
	94 kg			75 kg
	105 kg			+75 kg
	+105 kg

The Men's Featherweight Weightlifting Event (– 62 kg) is the second men's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 62 kilograms of body mass. The competition took place on 2000-09-17 in the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre and was the first weightlifting event to conclude at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Each lifter performed in both the snatch and clean and jerk lifts, with the final score being the sum of the lifter's best result in each. The athlete received three attempts in each of the two lifts; the score for the lift was the heaviest weight successfully lifted.

Medalists

Gold	Nikolaj Pešalov Croatia (CRO)
Silver	Leonidas Sabanis Greece (GRE)
Bronze	Gennady Oleshchuk Belarus (BLR)

Results

Rank	Name	NOC	Body Weight	Snatch (kg)			Clean & Jerk (kg)			Total (kg)
				1	2	3	1	2	3
	Nikolaj Pešalov	Croatia	61.56	145.0	150.0	150.0	175.0	185.0	–	325.0
	Leonidas Sabanis	Greece	61.30	142.5	147.5	150.0	170.0	175.0	175.0	317.5
	Gennady Oleshchuk	Belarus	61.68	137.5	142.5	145.0	172.5	175.0	177.5	317.5
4	Le Maosheng	China	61.28	140.0	145.0	145.0	175.0	177.5	177.5	315.0
5	Mehdi Panzvan	Iran	61.52	140.0	140.0	145.0	162.5	172.5	172.5	302.5
6	Hiroshi Ikehata	Japan	61.78	135.0	140.0	140.0	165.0	172.5	172.5	300.0
7	Vladimir Popov	Moldova	61.56	130.0	135.0	137.5	160.0	160.0	160.0	295.0
8	Elkhan Suleymanov	Azerbaijan	61.84	130.0	135.0	135.0	162.5	162.5	162.5	292.5
9	Yurik Sarkisian	Australia	61.74	125.0	130.0	130.0	160.0	165.0	167.5	290.0
10	Zoltán Farkas	Hungary	61.76	127.5	132.5	135.0	155.0	160.0	160.0	287.5
11	Marcus Stephen	Nauru	61.60	115.0	122.5	127.5	152.5	162.5	167.5	285.0
12	Samson N'Dicka-Matam	France	61.88	125.0	130.0	130.0	160.0	165.0	165.0	285.0
13	Dmitry Lomakin	Kazakhstan	61.92	125.0	130.0	132.5	150.0	155.0	155.0	282.5
14	Kim Yeong-Tae	South Korea	61.92	120.0	120.0	120.0	155.0	165.0	165.0	275.0
15	Sunday Mathias	Nigeria	61.24	110.0	115.0	120.0	150.0	155.0	155.0	265.0
–	Chom Singnoi	Thailand	61.92	122.5	122.5	122.5	–	–	–	DNF
–	Aleksey Bortkov	Russia	61.82	130.0	130.0	130.0	–	–	–	DNF
–	Umurbek Bazarbayev	Turkmenistan	61.78	117.5	122.5	125.0	150.0	150.0	150.0	DNF
–	Im Yong-Su	North Korea	61.70	130.0	132.5	137.5	167.5	167.5	170.0	DNF
–	Naim Süleymanoğlu	Turkey	61.90	145.0	145.0	145.0	–	–	–	DNF
–	Sevdalin Minchev	Bulgaria [1]	61.56	140.0	145.0	145.0	172.5	172.5	177.5	DSQ

References

1. Sevdalin Minchev of Bulgaria originally won the bronze but was disqualified after he tested positive for furosemide name="Minchev Dragneva">"Two Bulgarian weightlifters stripped of medals for doping: IOC". CNN Sports Illustrated. 2000-09-22. Retrieved 2008-08-05.

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