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Bantamweight (≤56 kilograms), Men

Date15 August 2004 — 10:30 (A), 20:00 (B)
StatusOlympic
LocationOlympiako Gymnastirio Arsis Varon Nikaias, Nikaia
Participants17 from 14 countries
FormatTotal of best lifts in snatch and clean & jerk determined placement. Ties broken by lightest bodyweight.

Turkey’s Halil Mutlu was the defending champion and had won the flyweight gold medal at the 1996 Olympics. He won the 2001 World Championship, but was then out for a year with a torn biceps tendon and a rotator cuff tear. In 2003 he won the World title again, but as a featherweight. While he was out of this class in 2002-03, China’s Wu Meijin won both World Championships. These two were expected to battle for gold in Athinai, but Mutlu put the title away early, lifting 135.0 kg in the snatch and 160.0 kg in the clean & jerk, leading both lifts, as Wu won the silver medal. Mutlu became only the fourth weightlifter to win three consecutive Olympic medals, after his countryman, Naim Suleymanoğlu, and Greeks Pyrros Dimas and Akakios Kakiasvili.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCK
1Halil MutluTUR295.0Gold
2Wu MeijinCHN287.5Silver
3Sedat ArtuçTUR280.0Bronze
4Vitali DzerbianiouBLR280.0
5Óscar FigueroaCOL280.0
6Adrian Ioan JigăuROU275.0
7László TancsicsHUN272.5
8Jadi SetiadiINA262.5
9Nelson CastroCOL262.5
10Mohammed AliIRQ255.0
11Ahmed SaadEGY232.5
DNFMasaharu YamadaJPN
DNFNafaa BenamiALG
DNFMohamed Faizal BaharomMAS
DNFYang Chin-YiTPE
DNFWang Shin-YuanTPE
DNFÉric BonnelFRA