Weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympics facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Weightlifting at the Games of the Olympiad
Venue	Paris Expo Porte de Versailles
Dates	7–11 August 2024
No. of events	10 (5 men, 5 women)
Competitors	122 from 57 nations
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The weightlifting competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris took place from 7 to 11 August at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. Several significant changes are instituted in the weightlifting program for Paris 2024, as the number of categories is trimmed from fourteen in Tokyo to ten. Furthermore, a total of 120 weightlifters, with an equal split between men and women, will compete in each of the ten weight classes, a massive drop from the 196 at the previous Games.

Qualification

120 weightlifting quota places, with an equal distribution between men and women, are available for Paris 2024, almost eighty fewer overall than those in Tokyo 2020. Qualified NOCs are permitted to enter a maximum of three weightlifters per gender, with a maximum of one in each bodyweight category.

Over eighty-three percent of the total quota will be awarded to the ten highest-ranked weightlifters across ten different weight classes through the biennial IWF Olympic Qualification Ranking list (running from 1 August 2022, to 28 April 2024). Five more spots per gender will be offered to the highest-ranked weightlifter vying for qualification and outside the top ten based on their continental representation (Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, or Oceania) from the list.

Host country France reserves two men's and two women's quota places in weightlifting, while a further three places per gender are entitled to eligible NOCs to have their weightlifters compete in Paris 2024 as granted by the Universality principle.

Competition format

On 14 June 2022, the International Weightlifting Federation officially announced the new weight categories for Paris 2024, with the total medal count reducing from fourteen to ten. Among the weightlifting medal events, the 61 and 73 kg categories for men and the 49 and 59 kg for women remain present from Tokyo 2020. The following list is the official weight categories for men and women, respectively.

Competition schedule

Participating nations

There are 57 participating nations:

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	5	0	0	5
2	Bulgaria	1	0	1	2
	United States	1	0	1	2
4	Georgia	1	0	0	1
	Indonesia	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
7	Thailand	0	2	1	3
8	Colombia	0	2	0	2
9	Armenia	0	1	0	1
	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Egypt	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
	Uzbekistan	0	1	0	1
15	Ecuador	0	0	2	2
16	Bahrain	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
999 –	Individual Neutral Athletes	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 NOCs)		10	10	10	30

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
61 kg details	Li Fabin  China	310 kg	Theerapong Silachai  Thailand	303 kg	Hampton Morris  United States	298 kg
73 kg details	Rizki Juniansyah  Indonesia	354 kg	Weeraphon Wichuma  Thailand	346 kg	Bozhidar Andreev  Bulgaria	344 kg
89 kg details	Karlos Nasar  Bulgaria	404 kg WR, OR	Yeison López  Colombia	390 kg	Antonino Pizzolato  Italy	384 kg
102 kg details	Liu Huanhua  China	406 kg	Akbar Djuraev  Uzbekistan	404 kg	Yauheni Tsikhantsou  Individual Neutral Athletes	402 kg
+102 kg details	Lasha Talakhadze  Georgia	470 kg	Varazdat Lalayan  Armenia	467 kg	Gor Minasyan  Bahrain	461 kg

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
49 kg details	Hou Zhihui  China	206 kg	Mihaela Cambei  Romania	205 kg	Surodchana Khambao  Thailand	200 kg
59 kg details	Luo Shifang  China	241 kg OR	Maude Charron  Canada	236 kg	Kuo Hsing-chun  Chinese Taipei	235 kg
71 kg details	Olivia Reeves  United States	262 kg	Mari Sánchez  Colombia	257 kg	Angie Palacios  Ecuador	256 kg
81 kg details	Solfrid Koanda  Norway	275 kg OR	Sara Ahmed  Egypt	268 kg	Neisi Dajomes  Ecuador	267 kg
+81 kg details	Li Wenwen  China	309 kg	Park Hye-jeong  South Korea	299 kg	Emily Campbell  Great Britain	288 kg

See also

• Powerlifting at the 2024 Summer Paralympics