1999 World Championships

Host city	Piraeus, Greece
Dates	21–28 November
Main venue	Peace and Friendship Stadium
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The 1999 World Weightlifting Championships were held at Peace and Friendship Stadium in Piraeus, Athens, Greece from November 21 to November 28, 1999.

It was the main qualifying events in the sport for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
56 kg (details)
Snatch	Halil Mutlu  Turkey	137.5 kg WR	Sergio Álvarez  Cuba	125.0 kg	Adrian Jigău  Romania	125.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Halil Mutlu  Turkey	166.0 kg WR	Wang Shin-yuan  Chinese Taipei	157.5 kg	Ivan Ivanov  Bulgaria	157.5 kg
Total	Halil Mutlu  Turkey	302.5 kg WR	Adrian Jigău  Romania	282.5 kg	Wang Shin-yuan  Chinese Taipei	280.0 kg
62 kg (details)
Snatch	Shi Zhiyong  China	147.5 kg	Leonidas Sabanis  Greece	145.0 kg	Sevdalin Minchev  Bulgaria	142.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Le Maosheng  China	180.5 kg WR	Marcus Stephen  Nauru	172.5 kg	Sevdalin Minchev  Bulgaria	172.5 kg
Total	Le Maosheng  China	320.0 kg	Leonidas Sabanis  Greece	315.0 kg	Sevdalin Minchev  Bulgaria	315.0 kg
69 kg (details)
Snatch	Galabin Boevski  Bulgaria	162.5 kg WR	Georgios Tzelilis  Greece	155.0 kg	Valerios Leonidis  Greece	152.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Galabin Boevski  Bulgaria	196.0 kg WR	Georgios Tzelilis  Greece	190.0 kg	Valerios Leonidis  Greece	187.5 kg
Total	Galabin Boevski  Bulgaria	357.5 kg WR	Georgios Tzelilis  Greece	345.0 kg	Valerios Leonidis  Greece	340.0 kg
77 kg (details)
Snatch	Khachatur Kyapanaktsyan  Armenia	170.5 kg WR	Plamen Zhelyazkov  Bulgaria	170.0 kg	Badr Salem Nayef  Qatar	165.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Badr Salem Nayef  Qatar	205.0 kg	Viktor Mitrou  Greece	205.0 kg	Nader Sufyan Abbas  Qatar	202.5 kg
Total	Badr Salem Nayef  Qatar	370.0 kg	Viktor Mitrou  Greece	370.0 kg	Plamen Zhelyazkov  Bulgaria	370.0 kg
85 kg (details)
Snatch	Pyrros Dimas  Greece	180.5 kg WR	Giorgi Asanidze  Georgia	177.5 kg	Marc Huster  Germany	177.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Shahin Nassirinia  Iran	215.0 kg	Christos Spyrou  Greece	207.5 kg	Pyrros Dimas  Greece	207.5 kg
Total	Shahin Nassirinia  Iran	390.0 kg	Pyrros Dimas  Greece	387.5 kg	Marc Huster  Germany	382.5 kg
94 kg (details)
Snatch	Akakios Kakiasvilis  Greece	188.0 kg WR	Leonidas Kokas  Greece	185.0 kg	Hakob Pilosyan  Armenia	182.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Akakios Kakiasvilis  Greece	225.0 kg	Szymon Kołecki  Poland	225.0 kg	Bünyamin Sudaş  Turkey	220.0 kg
Total	Akakios Kakiasvilis  Greece	412.5 kg	Szymon Kołecki  Poland	405.0 kg	Leonidas Kokas  Greece	402.5 kg
105 kg (details)
Snatch	Denys Hotfrid  Ukraine	195.0 kg	Choi Jong-kun  South Korea	190.0 kg	Evgeny Shishlyannikov  Russia	190.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Evgeny Shishlyannikov  Russia	235.0 kg	Denys Hotfrid  Ukraine	235.0 kg	Robert Dołęga  Poland	225.0 kg
Total	Denys Hotfrid  Ukraine	430.0 kg	Evgeny Shishlyannikov  Russia	425.0 kg	Choi Jong-kun  South Korea	410.0 kg
+105 kg (details)
Snatch	Jaber Saeed Salem  Qatar	205.0 kg	Hossein Rezazadeh  Iran	206.0 kg WR	Viktors Ščerbatihs  Latvia	200.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Andrey Chemerkin  Russia	257.5 kg	Kim Tae-hyun  South Korea	252.5 kg	Jaber Saeed Salem  Qatar	250.0 kg
Total	Andrey Chemerkin  Russia	457.5 kg	Jaber Saeed Salem  Qatar	455.0 kg	Hossein Rezazadeh  Iran	447.5 kg

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
48 kg (details)
Snatch	Sri Indriyani  Indonesia	82.5 kg	Li Xuezhao  China	80.0 kg	Chu Nan-mei  Chinese Taipei	80.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Donka Mincheva  Bulgaria	113.5 kg WR	Kunjarani Devi  India	105.0 kg	Kaori Niyanagi  Japan	105.0 kg
Total	Donka Mincheva  Bulgaria	192.5 kg	Sri Indriyani  Indonesia	185.0 kg	Kaori Niyanagi  Japan	185.0 kg
53 kg (details)
Snatch	Li Feng-ying  Chinese Taipei	95.0 kg	Winarni Binti Slamet  Indonesia	90.0 kg	Swe Swe Win  Myanmar	85.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Li Feng-ying  Chinese Taipei	121.5 kg WR	Winarni Binti Slamet  Indonesia	112.5 kg	Wang Xiufen  China	112.5 kg
Total	Li Feng-ying  Chinese Taipei	215.0 kg	Winarni Binti Slamet  Indonesia	202.5 kg	Wang Xiufen  China	197.5 kg
58 kg (details)
Snatch	Chen Yanqing  China	105.5 kg WR	Ri Song-hui  North Korea	100.0 kg	Kuo Ping-chun  Chinese Taipei	97.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Ri Song-hui  North Korea	131.0 kg WR	Chen Yanqing  China	130.0 kg	Kuo Ping-chun  Chinese Taipei	125.0 kg
Total	Chen Yanqing  China	235.0 kg WR	Ri Song-hui  North Korea	230.0 kg	Kuo Ping-chun  Chinese Taipei	222.5 kg
63 kg (details)
Snatch	Chen Jui-lien  Chinese Taipei	107.5 kg	Valentina Popova  Russia	105.0 kg	Xiong Meiying  China	105.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Chen Jui-lien  Chinese Taipei	132.5 kg	Xiong Meiying  China	132.5 kg WR	Ioanna Chatziioannou  Greece	127.5 kg
Total	Chen Jui-lien  Chinese Taipei	240.0 kg WR	Xiong Meiying  China	237.5 kg	Valentina Popova  Russia	232.5 kg
69 kg (details)
Snatch	Erzsébet Márkus  Hungary	107.5 kg	Milena Trendafilova  Bulgaria	105.0 kg	Sun Tianni  China	105.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Sun Tianni  China	143.0 kg WR	Irina Kasimova  Russia	130.0 kg	Milena Trendafilova  Bulgaria	127.5 kg
Total	Sun Tianni  China	247.5 kg	Milena Trendafilova  Bulgaria	232.5 kg	Erzsébet Márkus  Hungary	232.5 kg
75 kg (details)
Snatch	Xu Jiao  China	112.5 kg	Kim Soon-hee  South Korea	107.5 kg	Ruth Ogbeifo  Nigeria	107.5 kg
Clean & Jerk	Kim Soon-hee  South Korea	135.0 kg	Xu Jiao  China	135.0 kg	Ruth Ogbeifo  Nigeria	132.5 kg
Total	Xu Jiao  China	247.5 kg	Kim Soon-hee  South Korea	242.5 kg	Ruth Ogbeifo  Nigeria	240.0 kg
+75 kg (details)
Snatch	Ding Meiyuan  China	127.5 kg	Agata Wróbel  Poland	127.5 kg WR	Cheryl Haworth  United States	115.0 kg
Clean & Jerk	Ding Meiyuan  China	157.5 kg WR	Agata Wróbel  Poland	152.5 kg	Chen Hsiao-lien  Chinese Taipei	142.5 kg
Total	Ding Meiyuan  China	285.0 kg WR	Agata Wróbel  Poland	280.0 kg	Balkisu Musa  Nigeria	252.5 kg

Ranking by Big (Total result) medals

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	5	1	1	7
2	Bulgaria	2	1	2	5
3	Chinese Taipei	2	0	2	4
4	Greece	1	4	2	7
5	Russia	1	1	1	3
6	Qatar	1	1	0	2
7	Iran	1	0	1	2
8	Turkey	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
10	Indonesia	0	2	0	2
	Poland	0	2	0	2
12	South Korea	0	1	1	2
13	North Korea	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
15	Nigeria	0	0	2	2
16	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 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	12	5	4	21
2	Chinese Taipei	6	1	6	13
3	Bulgaria	5	3	6	14
4	Greece	4	10	6	20
5	Russia	3	3	2	8
6	Qatar	3	1	3	7
7	Turkey	3	0	1	4
8	Iran	2	1	1	4
9	Ukraine	2	1	0	3
10	South Korea	1	4	1	6
11	Indonesia	1	4	0	5
12	North Korea	1	2	0	3
13	Armenia	1	0	1	2
	Hungary	1	0	1	2
15	Poland	0	5	1	6
16	Romania	0	1	1	2
17	Cuba	0	1	0	1
	Georgia	0	1	0	1
	India	0	1	0	1
	Nauru	0	1	0	1
21	Nigeria	0	0	4	4
22	Germany	0	0	2	2
	Japan	0	0	2	2
24	Latvia	0	0	1	1
	Myanmar	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		45	45	45	135

Men Rank Team Points 1  Greece 581 2  Bulgaria 465 3  China 437 4  Turkey 386 5  Poland 377 6  Ukraine 364

Women Rank Team Points 1  China 530 2  Chinese Taipei 392 3  Bulgaria 374 4  Thailand 371 5  Nigeria 366 6  United States 333

626 competitors from 87 nations competed.

• Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics Archived 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
• Results (Sport 123)

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