2011 World Weightlifting Championships

The 2011 World Weightlifting Championships were held at Disneyland Paris in Paris, France. The event took place from November 5 to 13, 2011.

2011 World Championships

Host city	Paris, France
Dates	5–13 November
Main venue	Disneyland Paris
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Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
56 kg (details)
Snatch	Wu Jingbiao  China	133 kg	Zhao Chaojun  China	128 kg	Trần Lê Quốc Toàn  Vietnam	125 kg
Clean & Jerk	Wu Jingbiao  China	159 kg	Zhao Chaojun  China	156 kg	Valentin Hristov  Azerbaijan	154 kg
Total	Wu Jingbiao  China	292 kg	Zhao Chaojun  China	284 kg	Valentin Hristov  Azerbaijan	276 kg
62 kg (details)
Snatch	Kim Un-guk  North Korea	150 kg	Zhang Jie  China	145 kg	Bünyamin Sezer  Turkey	141 kg
Clean & Jerk	Zhang Jie  China	176 kg	Eko Yuli Irawan  Indonesia	171 kg	Kim Un-guk  North Korea	170 kg
Total	Zhang Jie  China	321 kg	Kim Un-guk  North Korea	320 kg	Eko Yuli Irawan  Indonesia	310 kg
69 kg (details)
Snatch	Mete Binay  Turkey	157 kg	Oleg Chen  Russia	156 kg	Tang Deshang  China	155 kg
Clean & Jerk	Tang Deshang  China	186 kg	Wu Chao  China	185 kg	Won Jeong-sik  South Korea	182 kg
Total	Tang Deshang  China	341 kg	Oleg Chen  Russia	336 kg	Wu Chao  China	335 kg
77 kg (details)
Snatch	Lü Xiaojun  China	170 kg	Su Dajin  China	166 kg	Tigran Martirosyan  Armenia	166 kg
Clean & Jerk	Su Dajin  China	206 kg	Lü Xiaojun  China	205 kg	Sa Jae-hyouk  South Korea	203 kg
Total	Lü Xiaojun  China	375 kg	Su Dajin  China	372 kg	Sa Jae-hyouk  South Korea	360 kg
85 kg (details)
Snatch	Andrei Rybakou  Belarus	178 kg	Adrian Zieliński  Poland	174 kg	Kianoush Rostami  Iran	173 kg
Clean & Jerk	Kianoush Rostami  Iran	209 kg	Benjamin Hennequin  France	208 kg	Yoelmis Hernández  Cuba	205 kg
Total	Kianoush Rostami  Iran	382 kg	Benjamin Hennequin  France	378 kg	Adrian Zieliński  Poland	376 kg
94 kg (details)
Snatch	Aleksandr Ivanov  Russia	186 kg	Artem Ivanov  Ukraine	186 kg	Kim Min-jae  South Korea	182 kg
Clean & Jerk	Ilya Ilyin  Kazakhstan	226 kg	Ruslan Nurudinov  Uzbekistan	221 kg	Saeid Mohammadpour  Iran	221 kg
Total	Ilya Ilyin  Kazakhstan	407 kg	Artem Ivanov  Ukraine	407 kg	Saeid Mohammadpour  Iran	402 kg
105 kg (details)
Snatch	Khadzhimurat Akkaev  Russia	198 kg	Dmitry Klokov  Russia	196 kg	Gia Machavariani  Georgia	187 kg
Clean & Jerk	Khadzhimurat Akkaev  Russia	232 kg	Dmitry Klokov  Russia	232 kg	Oleksiy Torokhtiy  Ukraine	229 kg
Total	Khadzhimurat Akkaev  Russia	430 kg	Dmitry Klokov  Russia	428 kg	Oleksiy Torokhtiy  Ukraine	410 kg
+105 kg (details)
Snatch	Behdad Salimi  Iran	214 kg WR	Ihor Shymechko  Ukraine	200 kg	Sajjad Anoushiravani  Iran	198 kg
Clean & Jerk	Behdad Salimi  Iran	250 kg	Sajjad Anoushiravani  Iran	241 kg	Jeon Sang-guen  South Korea	241 kg
Total	Behdad Salimi  Iran	464 kg	Sajjad Anoushiravani  Iran	439 kg	Jeon Sang-guen  South Korea	433 kg

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
48 kg (details)
Snatch	Tian Yuan  China	90 kg	Genny Pagliaro  Italy	83 kg	Marzena Karpińska  Poland	82 kg
Clean & Jerk	Tian Yuan  China	117 kg	Panida Khamsri  Thailand	107 kg	Nurdan Karagöz  Turkey	103 kg
Total	Tian Yuan  China	207 kg	Panida Khamsri  Thailand	187 kg	Nurdan Karagöz  Turkey	183 kg
53 kg (details)
Snatch	Zulfiya Chinshanlo  Kazakhstan	97 kg	Yuderqui Contreras  Dominican Republic	95 kg	Hsu Shu-ching  Chinese Taipei	93 kg
Clean & Jerk	Zulfiya Chinshanlo  Kazakhstan	130 kg WR	Aylin Daşdelen  Turkey	126 kg	Ji Jing  China	121 kg
Total	Zulfiya Chinshanlo  Kazakhstan	227 kg	Aylin Daşdelen  Turkey	219 kg	Ji Jing  China	214 kg
58 kg (details)
Snatch	Li Xueying  China	103 kg	Nastassia Novikava  Belarus	101 kg	Romela Begaj  Albania	100 kg
Clean & Jerk	Nastassia Novikava  Belarus	136 kg	Li Xueying  China	133 kg	Pimsiri Sirikaew  Thailand	131 kg
Total	Nastassia Novikava  Belarus	237 kg	Li Xueying  China	236 kg	Pimsiri Sirikaew  Thailand	230 kg
63 kg (details)
Snatch	Svetlana Tsarukaeva  Russia	117 kg WR	Ouyang Xiaofang  China	113 kg	Maiya Maneza  Kazakhstan	109 kg
Clean & Jerk	Maiya Maneza  Kazakhstan	139 kg	Svetlana Tsarukaeva  Russia	138 kg	Roxana Cocoș  Romania	136 kg
Total	Svetlana Tsarukaeva  Russia	255 kg	Maiya Maneza  Kazakhstan	248 kg	Ouyang Xiaofang  China	246 kg
69 kg (details)
Snatch	Oxana Slivenko  Russia	118 kg	Xiang Yanmei  China	116 kg	Huang Shih-hsu  Chinese Taipei	116 kg
Clean & Jerk	Oxana Slivenko  Russia	148 kg	Xiang Yanmei  China	148 kg	Tatiana Matveeva  Russia	143 kg
Total	Oxana Slivenko  Russia	266 kg	Xiang Yanmei  China	264 kg	Tatiana Matveeva  Russia	253 kg
75 kg (details)
Snatch	Svetlana Podobedova  Kazakhstan	131 kg	Nadezhda Evstyukhina  Russia	130 kg	Iryna Kulesha  Belarus	121 kg
Clean & Jerk	Nadezhda Evstyukhina  Russia	163 kg WR	Svetlana Podobedova  Kazakhstan	156 kg	Kim Un-ju  North Korea	151 kg
Total	Nadezhda Evstyukhina  Russia	293 kg	Svetlana Podobedova  Kazakhstan	287 kg	Kim Un-ju  North Korea	265 kg
+75 kg (details)
Snatch	Tatiana Kashirina  Russia	147 kg WR	Zhou Lulu  China	146 kg	Yuliya Dovhal  Azerbaijan	118 kg
Clean & Jerk	Zhou Lulu  China	182 kg	Tatiana Kashirina  Russia	175 kg	Mariam Usman  Nigeria	156 kg
Total	Zhou Lulu  China	328 kg WR	Tatiana Kashirina  Russia	322 kg	Mariam Usman  Nigeria	273 kg

Medal table

Ranking by Big (Total result) medals

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	6	4	3	13
2	Russia	4	3	1	8
3	Kazakhstan	2	2	0	4
4	Iran	2	1	1	4
5	Belarus	1	0	0	1
6	North Korea	0	1	1	2
	Thailand	0	1	1	2
	Turkey	0	1	1	2
	Ukraine	0	1	1	2
10	France	0	1	0	1
11	South Korea	0	0	2	2
12	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		15	15	15	45

Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	16	15	5	36
2	Russia	12	9	2	23
3	Kazakhstan	7	3	1	11
4	Iran	5	2	4	11
5	Belarus	3	1	1	5
6	Turkey	1	2	3	6
7	North Korea	1	1	3	5
8	Ukraine	0	3	2	5
9	Thailand	0	2	2	4
10	France	0	2	0	2
11	Poland	0	1	2	3
12	Indonesia	0	1	1	2
13	Dominican Republic	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Uzbekistan	0	1	0	1
16	South Korea	0	0	6	6
17	Azerbaijan	0	0	3	3
18	Chinese Taipei	0	0	2	2
	Nigeria	0	0	2	2
20	Albania	0	0	1	1
	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Georgia	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Vietnam	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		45	45	45	135

Team ranking

Men Rank Team Points 1  China 569 2  Iran 500 3  Russia 479 4  South Korea 422 5  Ukraine 350 6  Poland 284

Women Rank Team Points 1  China 510 2  Russia 509 3  Kazakhstan 444 4  Belarus 298 5  Thailand 294 6  Turkey 280

Participating nations

519 competitors from 87 nations participated. Due to not submitting their whereabouts information according to the IWF Anti-Doping Policy Bulgaria, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka were not allowed to participate in this year's edition.^[1]

•  Albania (10)
•  American Samoa (1)
•  Armenia (10)
•  Australia (7)
•  Azerbaijan (10)
•  Belarus (11)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
•  Brazil (9)
•  Cameroon (2)
•  Canada (14)
•  Chile (1)
•  China (15)
•  Chinese Taipei (10)
•  Colombia (10)
•  Costa Rica (1)
•  Croatia (2)
•  Cuba (6)
•  Czech Republic (2)
•  Denmark (1)
•  Dominican Republic (4)
•  Ecuador (10)
•  Egypt (10)
•  El Salvador (3)
•  Micronesia (1)
•  Fiji (2)
•  Finland (7)
•  France (12)
•  Georgia (6)
•  Germany (12)
•  Great Britain (8)
•  Greece (6)
•  Guatemala (2)
•  Hong Kong (1)
•  Hungary (7)
•  India (14)
•  Indonesia (10)
•  Iran (8)
•  Ireland (2)
•  Israel (1)
•  Italy (8)
•  Japan (15)
•  Kazakhstan (14)
•  Kiribati (1)
•  Kyrgyzstan (2)
•  Latvia (2)
•  Lithuania (6)
•  Macau (2)
•  Malaysia (3)
•  Mexico (7)
•  Moldova (9)
•  Mongolia (2)
•  Nauru (2)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Nigeria (8)
•  Niue (1)
•  North Korea (11)
•  Norway (1)
•  Pakistan (1)
•  Palau (1)
•  Papua New Guinea (1)
•  Peru (2)
•  Philippines (2)
•  Poland (15)
•  Puerto Rico (2)
•  Romania (7)
•  Russia (15)
•  Samoa (4)
•  Serbia (1)
•  Seychelles (1)
•  Slovakia (7)
•  Solomon Islands (2)
•  South Korea (11)
•  Spain (10)
•  Sweden (4)
•  Switzerland (2)
•  Tajikistan (1)
•  Thailand (11)
•  Tunisia (4)
•  Turkey (12)
•  Turkmenistan (8)
•  Tuvalu (1)
•  Ukraine (13)
•  United States (14)
•  Uzbekistan (8)
•  Venezuela (11)
•  Vietnam (3)

Aftermath

Ukrainian female weightlifter Olha Korobka failed a drugs test after the tournament and was disqualified from the bronze-medal position in the over 75 kg category.^[2]