1998 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 62 kg
| 1998 World Weightlifting Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
| 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 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[edit]
| 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[edit]
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[edit]
| Rank | Athlete | Body weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | ||||
 |
Leonidas Sabanis (GRE) |
61.76 | 140.0 | 145.0 | 147.5 | |
167.5 | 172.5 | |
320.0 | |
 |
Nikolaj Pešalov (CRO) |
61.80 | 140.0 | 145.0 | |
172.5 | |
317.5 | |||
 |
Sevdalin Minchev (BUL) |
61.32 | 132.5 | 137.5 | 140.0 | |
162.5 | 170.0 | |
310.0 | |
| 4 |  Su Feixiang (CHN) |
61.67 | 135.0 | 140.0 | 5 | 170.0 | 5 | 310.0 | |||
| 5 | Le Maosheng (CHN) |
61.48 | 137.5 | 6 | 170.0 | 4 | 307.5 | ||||
| 6 | Valentin Sarov (BUL) |
61.57 | 135.0 | 140.0 | 4 | 162.5 | 7 | 302.5 | |||
| 7 |  Zoltán Farkas (HUN) |
61.78 | 137.5 | 137.5 | 8 | 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 | 7 | 157.5 | 12 | 295.0 | ||||
| 10 |  Yurik Sarkisyan (AUS) |
61.83 | 122.5 | 127.5 | 11 | 152.5 | 157.5 | 160.0 | 11 | 287.5 | |
| 11 |  Marcus Stephen (NRU) |
61.91 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 12 | 162.5 | 9 | 287.5 | |||
| 12 |  Oleg Shin (KAZ) |
61.58 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 10 | 147.5 | 152.5 | 13 | 282.5 | |
| 13 |  Roger Berrio (COL) |
61.83 | 115.0 | 120.0 | 122.5 | 13 | 145.0 | 150.0 | 14 | 272.5 | |
| 14 |  Alfonso Portillo (ESP) |
61.53 | 110.0 | 115.0 | 15 | 140.0 | 145.0 | 15 | 260.0 | ||
| 15 |  Jyrki Welling (FIN) |
61.76 | 107.5 | 112.5 | 115.0 | 16 | 137.5 | 142.5 | 18 | 257.5 | |
| 16 |  Michael Garrido (FRA) |
61.65 | 112.5 | 17 | 142.5 | 17 | 255.0 | ||||
| 17 |  Tom Goegebuer (BEL) |
60.98 | 110.0 | 18 | 137.5 | 142.5 | 16 | 252.5 | |||
| 18 |  Chen Po-pu (TPE) |
61.32 | 110.0 | 19 | 140.0 | 19 | 250.0 | ||||
| 19 |  Nuno Alves (POR) |
61.10 | 102.5 | 107.5 | 20 | 130.0 | 20 | 237.5 | |||
| 20 |  Wayne Healy (IRE) |
61.25 | 90.0 | 95.0 | 21 | 120.0 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 21 | 225.0 | |
| 21 |  Badru Nyamuja (UGA) |
61.60 | 95.0 | 22 | 125.0 | 130.0 | 22 | 225.0 | |||
| — | Laurent Pedreno (FRA) |
61.69 | 112.5 | 117.5 | 14 | — | — | ||||
| — |  Mohamed Osman (EGY) |
61.47 | — | 150.0 | 160.0 | 10 | — | ||||
| — | Jarkko Welling (FIN) |
61.52 | — | 120.0 | 127.5 | 23 | — | ||||
New records[edit]
| Snatch | 147.5 kg | Leonidas Sabanis (GRE)
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