Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men

Bulgaria’s Mitko Grablev, the 1986 World Champion, had the best lift in both the snatch and clean & jerk, ending with a total of 297.5 kg, only 2.5 kg off the world record held by his former teammate, Naim Süleymanoğlu, who now competed for Turkey and as a featherweight. However, Grablev then tested positive for Lasix (furosemide), a diuretic used to mask performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) and was disqualified. This elevated Soviet Oksen Mirzoyan to the gold medal, with the other medals going to two Chinese lifters, He Yingqiang and Liu Shoubin, who had been the silver medalists at the last two World Championships, Liu in 1987 and He in 1986. Liu would also win a silver medal in this class at the 1992 Olympics.